heres my enviroment:

print production company
3 main staff computers (windows xp/7)
file server (windows home server)
8 customer rental computers (xp/osx)
15 printers, konica, HP, xerox, cannon.

task:
i want to turn all the customer computers into virtual computers running off of a server. 1 disk image for 5 computers. basically just making it easier to make changes to them. ie add a printer, install a program, update a program etc.

id like it to look like windows as much as possible, (start menu, icons etc) so it doesnt confuse the customers. i know ubuntu has a windows theme floating around somewhere. all that they will be doing is printing, accessing a shared public folder on the WHS, and accessing the internet.

i only want to replace the windows computers. if i can add the OSX computers to the server (still running OSX) without to much trouble that would be nice, but they so rarely have problems or get upgraded that its not really an issue.

also, ive tried adding "microsoft steady-state" to the windows boxes and ended up removing it due to how much it slowed them down. im still fixing the damage it did.

any help or input would be greatly appreciated.

Hello,

Came across this on google - http://jacob.steelsmith.org/content/...sk-based-10041
Looks like it should do the job good for you. Here is the search link I used - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...842l2-7.3l10l0
Lots of other links on there.

Cheers,

Josh

xpud is a good choice. Many other distro's can be run in kiosk mode also.

Might look at www.2x.com for some ideas.

Consider remote desktops on terminals. vnc, freenx and nomachine type.

Boot to knoppix terminal server even over pxe.

Could move up to gpxe/ipxe.

Might consider an iSCSI install.