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Education client, Nashik
· 2024 · Education
Four labs moved to thin clients
62% lower per seat
LTSP
Samba AD-DC
Proxmox VE
The challenge
Four computer labs, 120 machines, each one individually patched and individually broken. Two staff spent most of their week rebuilding desktops.
What we did
Diskless thin clients booting from a central server, with Samba AD-DC for accounts and group policy. Images are updated in one place and every seat picks up the change on next boot.
The result
Rebuild time per seat went from roughly forty minutes to a reboot. Cost per seat over five years fell by around 62%.
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