Can a standard PC operate as both a thin client and still run other applications as a standard NT workstation?
Short answer, Yes. All that is required is almost any Windows based PC. One of the applications that you can run on the PC is a window that will host a session on a Terminal Server (Thin Client Server). In fact, Microsoft is pushing this with the use of what they call the TSAC (Terminal Server Advanced Client). This ‘application’ is nothing more than a configuration for an Internet Explorer window that allows you to specify the IP address of the server. Then a full Windows screen is displayed in the browser shell, and keystrokes made while the browser is the active window get transferred to the application running in the user session back on the server. Switch to any other open window (or open a new one) and you are back running local applications while the hosted session on the server continues. ACP’s problem with that approach is that it still requires a full PC to host the client session. While this is very convenient sometimes, most of the customers that we see would rather have a
