Hi everyone,
While it seems like everyone is pretty happy with the TheOtherKiwi's vDesktop app (Good one mate!!), I thought it might be helpful to someone if I let you know how we got on top of this. This is probably purely acedemic, as it seems everyone in the world (except me, pobvioucly) has vDesktop!!!
Anyhow, ike pmconseil, we had NT clients that we needed to act as dumb terminals...
What we ended up doing is, via the registry, setting these machines to automatically log on with a local user account (IE, not a domain / AD account). This may sound weird and insecure, but bear with me. This local account was locked down fairly well, so it could not access any network shares, servers, etc. Also, the machine did not have any software installed - just a minimalistic NT build and the ICA client.
Via another registry hack, we changed the O/S desktop shell from explorer to a little batch file, which launched Program Neighbourhood. This means that when the box automatically logged on, rather than getting the Windows environment, they only got the PN - no start button, etc.
The Program Neighbourhood was pre-configured with the published desktops, and restricted so it could not be changed (instructions for doing this are on the Citrix site).
The batch file also referenced the ShutDown utility from the NT res kit, so that once the user exited the Program Neighbourhood, the computer would turn off.
This turned the NT box into pretty much a dumb terminal. It's also very un-intrusive to the user, as everything opens / closes automatically. We've got 50-odd of these set up this way, and have been running for about 6 months now with no troubles whatsoever.
Anyway, that's my $0.02. It's now looking very long-winded compared to vDesktop!!
Thanks!