Tell me how to set up a thin client on Raspberry Pi 3?

Question

Raspberry Pi

I have a terminal server on Windows server 2012 r2, I need to set up thin clients on Raspberry Pi 3, but I don't know how! The boss also demands that free software be used for thin clients
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Answer 1

https://winterminal.com/ru/
We have been using this for more than a year. About 50 pieces of workers at the moment. True, since this spring the license has become paid, but if the small strip with the inscription "only for the test" does not irritate, then it is possible without a license. The plus is that on the raspberry itself there is no compromising information at all. There's not even OS as such.

Answer 2

In outline.
Raise on any server located in the same broadcast domain with the Raspberry Pi, a DHCP server and a TFTP server.
Take an image of the system that should run on the Raspberry Pi and set it up. Since you are interested in terminal clients, you need a Thinstation image or something similar. Specify in the configs in the image the IP address of the terminal server, perhaps something else.
Upload the resulting system image to the TFTP server.
On the DHCP server, configure issuing to clients the address of the TFTP server and the path to the image on it.
Set up your Raspberry Pi to receive DHCP addresses. RPI2 required an SD card with a bootloader installed on it, I don’t know how the situation is with RPI3 (whether it can boot over the network without a bootloader and an SD card).

Answer 3

You make firmware with Xorg (graphical environment) - you can do it on the basis of ArchLinux (or any other). In .xsession you prescribe the launch of xfreerdp with the necessary parameters. It is possible to be played with transfer of parameters on DHCP. You can even take cheap OrangePI One