[SLL] kioskcd is a really cool idea...

[Kurt Buff]

We do something similar in many cases for VPN access for our company -
if the employee isn't in the running for a company-issued laptop, we
give them a CD with a VMWare player of Ubuntu running PPTP and
rdesktop, which gives them access to the Windows Terminal Services
machine. The VM runs under a severely restricted environment, so they
can't update it.

It's a little slow if you don't have a reasonable machine at home, but
it works just fine.

I'll be upgrading the image at some point to do IPSec instead of PPTP.

On Dec 20, 2007 9:06 AM, Ski Kacoroski <kacoroski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just wanted to share a great idea that I am using at the Northshore
> school district.  We had to put out several workstations so people
> could access their pay stubs online (we are moving away from paper).  We
> needed these workstations to be simple, foolproof, and cheap.  Kioskcd
> enabled me to set up an old machine with no disk in it that can pretty
> much only connect to the employee online application as it runs off cd.
> If it is turned off or if the user kills the browser it goes right back
> to the employee online application (a web app).
>
> cheap, simple, foolproof.
>
> ski
>
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>
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