1. Physical network - Depending upon the distance between the terminal and the PC you have the choice of either wired or wireless. It is probably easiest as you have wired cards in both the PC and the terminal and the PC to buy a LAN switch, or use ports on your DSL router (I am assuming that they are also connecting out to the Internet?).
so, plug the PC and the terminal into the switch/DSL router using CAT5 Ethernet cables (straight through ones).
Assuming that you have a DSL router that is handing our DHCP addresses, ensure that both the PC and the terminal are both getting addresses via DHCP. You can easily check this by opening up a command (DOS) window and typing ipconfig. Check that you have an IP address on both boxes (typically 192.x.x.x or 10.x.x.x ranges unless default DSL router config has been changed). In the DOS window on the PC type "ping <remote address you got from terminal>" - you should get a response back if all is well.
2. Now you have connectivity between the PC and the Terminal, you need to get a remote desktop capability if I understood you correctly?
You could use either Windows remote desktop (in XP it is called something like remote assistance). I prefer VNC as it is quick, lightweight and free. You can google this and download both server and client apps.
This should get you into a situation where you can remotely control / view your PC desktop on your terminal. You can of course map drives from one to another.
Let me know if the above needs additional clarification, if it helps please leave feedback accordingly
A Wyse terminal is a dumb terminal. You can emulate one from software on your PC if you have a serial port. I think Hypertrm will work, but if not, look for WYSE TERMINAL EMULATION SOFTWARE in Google.
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OK,
That makes sense.
1. Physical network - Depending upon the distance between the terminal and the PC you have the choice of either wired or wireless. It is probably easiest as you have wired cards in both the PC and the terminal and the PC to buy a LAN switch, or use ports on your DSL router (I am assuming that they are also connecting out to the Internet?).
so, plug the PC and the terminal into the switch/DSL router using CAT5 Ethernet cables (straight through ones).
Assuming that you have a DSL router that is handing our DHCP addresses, ensure that both the PC and the terminal are both getting addresses via DHCP. You can easily check this by opening up a command (DOS) window and typing ipconfig. Check that you have an IP address on both boxes (typically 192.x.x.x or 10.x.x.x ranges unless default DSL router config has been changed). In the DOS window on the PC type "ping <remote address you got from terminal>" - you should get a response back if all is well.
2. Now you have connectivity between the PC and the Terminal, you need to get a remote desktop capability if I understood you correctly?
You could use either Windows remote desktop (in XP it is called something like remote assistance). I prefer VNC as it is quick, lightweight and free. You can google this and download both server and client apps.
This should get you into a situation where you can remotely control / view your PC desktop on your terminal. You can of course map drives from one to another.
Let me know if the above needs additional clarification, if it helps please leave feedback accordingly
Cheers
The "Winterm" Wyse terminal runs windows CE ... as it's name suggests! and can be networked as it has 10/100 network card
A Wyse terminal is a dumb terminal. You can emulate one from software on your PC if you have a serial port. I think Hypertrm will work, but if not, look for WYSE TERMINAL EMULATION SOFTWARE in Google.
Carl