Hi All,
I have installed LTSP 4.2 on Ubuntu 7.04 and it works really well. The
requirement in my organisation is to implement as cost effective a solution
as possible, hence LTSP, but into a windows environment, so we are
using ltsp-rdesktop scripts. The rdesktop script works perfectly, to a
point!
As a next step I need to set up local device access, specifically for USB
sticks. I have followed the howto for local dev at
http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LTSP-42-LocalDev step for step and
it all seems to work properly. So the next step I took was to do a rdesktop
-f -r disk:local=/tmp/Drives XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX and the local folder on the
thinclient was empty. I then went to debug and got as far as step 10 on
that localdev page mentioned previously, *echo $DISPLAY *doesnt return
anything on the thin client if thats of any use to anybody. To be honest,
even with my limited knowledge of LTSP, Linux and Ubuntu I dont think this
is too much of a problem as when I ls -l /tmp/Drives I can see a folder for
the usbdrive, call it USBSTICK for arguments sake. So I then do a ls -l
/tmp/Drives/USBSTICK and nothing is there, so what i think is happening is
that its not mounting the right thing. So then I check the fstabs in /etc
and it seems to be mounting something to the effect of /dev/.....something
which i cant remember/scsi/lun0/disk1 or something like that.
What I have found though is that if I do the following:
mkdir /tmp/media/USBSTICK
mount -t vfat -o uid=0,gid=0 /dev/sda1 /tmp/media/USBSTICK
will mount it in /tmp/media/USBSTICK (how read/writable this is I dont yet
know.)
To get to my point, I think all this boils down to partitioned/unpartitioned
USB Stick support of LTSP. To be honest I dont know if my usb sticks are
partitioned or not. And for full acceptance in my organisation I will be
able to prove that I can mount any usb stick. The one advantage is that the
thin clients will only present one usb port at the front.
Does anybody know how I can handle the mounting events better than the
current situation? a script modification maybe? I'm fairly sure that at
present what is getting mounted to /tmp/drives is the wrong thing and it
should be /dev/sda1 as opposed to the much longer path which I cant
remember. As I say I'm open to all suggestions and thank you in advance for
any help you can provide me.
Anthony
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