Thin clients can connect to a Terminal Server with less of the hardware and software overhead associated with a full-featured PC. Thin clients can be purchased without hard drives, CD ROMs, or removable media, and can boot from Read Only Memory (ROM). Many of these clients run the Windows CE operating system. Some may have COM and parallel ports, while others may not. The lack of moving parts and subsequent price of thin clients can make them very attractive alternatives to full-featured PCs on the client side.
Thin clients use a subset of the drivers found in NTPRINT_PARSED.TXT on the thin client. When these clients have a printer installed, it will be installed from this list. They will redirect their queues in exactly the same way as a full-featured client. As a result, with thin clients, you are always guaranteed to have a driver that will redirect and work on your Terminal Server for redirected printing.
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