Re: [openthinclient-user] Raspberry PI

2014-01-27 Thread Robert Charlebois
Yes I was thinking model B.  is the chip in the Pi not PXE compatible?
Even booting from SD would be nice as an inexpensive OTC device.  Low
power consumption as well.  Rig it up to a case that you can attach to
VESA mount on the back of a monitor and it makes for a real compact work
environment.

Our current use of OTC is just as a terminal for users to log into any
otc client and rdp to a certain pre-defined machine.  Perhaps I am
missing something here but I thought it would be a great idea.

Rob...


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Dear Robert,

   Would you mind explaining what you have in mind please? I am guessing
that you mean using the Pi model B as client, booting from the SD card
rather than PXE, but I can't see an obvious use case for the Pi with
OTC.

All the best,

Mark

On 22/01/14 18:15, Robert Charlebois wrote:

 Any thoughts or plans about porting OTC to Raspberry Pi?

 Robert Charlebois

 Systems/Network Specialist

 Baytech Plastics Inc

 320 Elizabeth Street

 Midland, ON, L4R 4L6

 P: 705-526-0591  x  354

 C: 705-427-0546

 F: 705-526-3521

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Re: [openthinclient-user] Raspberry PI

2014-01-27 Thread Sebastian Klempin
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Dear Robert,

   Would you mind explaining what you have in mind please? I am guessing
that you mean using the Pi model B as client, booting from the SD card
rather than PXE, but I can't see an obvious use case for the Pi with
OTC.


Do not forget, the PI has an ARM CPU!
OTCS is made for X86.

Sebastian


2014-01-27 Robert Charlebois r...@baytechplastics.com

 Yes I was thinking model B.  is the chip in the Pi not PXE compatible?
 Even booting from SD would be nice as an inexpensive OTC device.  Low
 power consumption as well.  Rig it up to a case that you can attach to
 VESA mount on the back of a monitor and it makes for a real compact work
 environment.

 Our current use of OTC is just as a terminal for users to log into any
 otc client and rdp to a certain pre-defined machine.  Perhaps I am
 missing something here but I thought it would be a great idea.

 Rob...


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 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:33:46 +
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 Dear Robert,

Would you mind explaining what you have in mind please? I am guessing
 that you mean using the Pi model B as client, booting from the SD card
 rather than PXE, but I can't see an obvious use case for the Pi with
 OTC.

 All the best,

 Mark

 On 22/01/14 18:15, Robert Charlebois wrote:
 
  Any thoughts or plans about porting OTC to Raspberry Pi?
 
  Robert Charlebois
 
  Systems/Network Specialist
 
  Baytech Plastics Inc
 
  320 Elizabeth Street
 
  Midland, ON, L4R 4L6
 
  P: 705-526-0591  x  354
 
  C: 705-427-0546
 
  F: 705-526-3521
 
  E: r...@baytechplastics.com
 
  W: www.baytechplastics.com
 
 


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[openthinclient-user] freerdp und Arbeitsplätze mit mehreren Bildschirmen

2014-01-27 Thread Daniel Zabel
Hallo zusammen,
ich habe das Problem, dass ich einige Arbeitsplätze auf eine Terminal 
Lösung umziehen muss. Die Plätze sind teilweise mit zwei Monitoren 
ausgestattet. Dadurch kommt an diesen Plätzen, wie mir schient nur 
FreeRDP in frage.

Ich habe jetzt eine Testumgebung aufgebaut um die Konfiguration zu 
testen. Leider scheint bei mir der Fullscreen Modus nicht zu 
funktionieren, da zwar in der Startleiste die Anwendung auftaucht und 
nach einer kurzen Zeit wieder verschwindet. Ich meine auch gesehen zu 
haben, dass das bei anderen auf vorkommt, jedoch habe ich keine Lösung 
gefunden um drum herum zu arbeiten.

Ich habe das mit Minerva und Consus probiert. Beim letzteren habe ich 
erst später gesehen, dass das noch nicht eingebaut ist. Arbeitsplätze 
mit einem Bildschirm kann und werde ich das mit rdesktop in Angriff nehmen.

Hat da jemand einen Tip für mich?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Daniel Zabel

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Re: [openthinclient-user] Raspberry PI

2014-01-27 Thread Miguel Amez
Hi Sebastian,

Why not thinking about cross-compiling openthiclient for ARM devices? A
great world could be opened for OTC...

Regards,
Miguel


2014-01-27 Sebastian Klempin s.klem...@gmx.de


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 Dear Robert,

Would you mind explaining what you have in mind please? I am guessing
 that you mean using the Pi model B as client, booting from the SD card
 rather than PXE, but I can't see an obvious use case for the Pi with
 OTC.
 

 Do not forget, the PI has an ARM CPU!
 OTCS is made for X86.

 Sebastian


 2014-01-27 Robert Charlebois r...@baytechplastics.com

 Yes I was thinking model B.  is the chip in the Pi not PXE compatible?
 Even booting from SD would be nice as an inexpensive OTC device.  Low
 power consumption as well.  Rig it up to a case that you can attach to
 VESA mount on the back of a monitor and it makes for a real compact work
 environment.

 Our current use of OTC is just as a terminal for users to log into any
 otc client and rdp to a certain pre-defined machine.  Perhaps I am
 missing something here but I thought it would be a great idea.

 Rob...


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 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:33:46 +
 From: Mark D-B newsgroup@virginmedia.com
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 Dear Robert,

Would you mind explaining what you have in mind please? I am guessing
 that you mean using the Pi model B as client, booting from the SD card
 rather than PXE, but I can't see an obvious use case for the Pi with
 OTC.

 All the best,

 Mark

 On 22/01/14 18:15, Robert Charlebois wrote:
 
  Any thoughts or plans about porting OTC to Raspberry Pi?
 
  Robert Charlebois
 
  Systems/Network Specialist
 
  Baytech Plastics Inc
 
  320 Elizabeth Street
 
  Midland, ON, L4R 4L6
 
  P: 705-526-0591  x  354
 
  C: 705-427-0546
 
  F: 705-526-3521
 
  E: r...@baytechplastics.com
 
  W: www.baytechplastics.com
 
 


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Re: [openthinclient-user] Raspberry PI

2014-01-27 Thread Sebastian Klempin
 Hello Miguel.

the same desire I have too.

You need a boot image that has PXE emulated.
Seen anything but I still have not.

were you ever considered that here?
http://rpitc.blogspot.de/

it works great, it lacks only an administrative as OTCS.

greetings
Sebastian


2014-01-27 Miguel Amez villalvi...@gmail.com

 Hi Sebastian,

 Why not thinking about cross-compiling openthiclient for ARM devices? A
 great world could be opened for OTC...

 Regards,
 Miguel


 2014-01-27 Sebastian Klempin s.klem...@gmx.de


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 Dear Robert,

Would you mind explaining what you have in mind please? I am guessing
 that you mean using the Pi model B as client, booting from the SD card
 rather than PXE, but I can't see an obvious use case for the Pi with
 OTC.
 

 Do not forget, the PI has an ARM CPU!
 OTCS is made for X86.

 Sebastian


 2014-01-27 Robert Charlebois r...@baytechplastics.com

 Yes I was thinking model B.  is the chip in the Pi not PXE compatible?
 Even booting from SD would be nice as an inexpensive OTC device.  Low
 power consumption as well.  Rig it up to a case that you can attach to
 VESA mount on the back of a monitor and it makes for a real compact work
 environment.

 Our current use of OTC is just as a terminal for users to log into any
 otc client and rdp to a certain pre-defined machine.  Perhaps I am
 missing something here but I thought it would be a great idea.

 Rob...


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 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:33:46 +
 From: Mark D-B newsgroup@virginmedia.com
 Subject: Re: [openthinclient-user] Raspberry Pi
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 Dear Robert,

Would you mind explaining what you have in mind please? I am guessing
 that you mean using the Pi model B as client, booting from the SD card
 rather than PXE, but I can't see an obvious use case for the Pi with
 OTC.

 All the best,

 Mark

 On 22/01/14 18:15, Robert Charlebois wrote:
 
  Any thoughts or plans about porting OTC to Raspberry Pi?
 
  Robert Charlebois
 
  Systems/Network Specialist
 
  Baytech Plastics Inc
 
  320 Elizabeth Street
 
  Midland, ON, L4R 4L6
 
  P: 705-526-0591  x  354
 
  C: 705-427-0546
 
  F: 705-526-3521
 
  E: r...@baytechplastics.com
 
  W: www.baytechplastics.com
 
 


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Re: [openthinclient-user] freerdp und Arbeitsplätze mit mehreren Bildschirmen

2014-01-27 Thread Stecher, Alexander
Hallo,

das ist ein Bug vom eingesetzten FreeRDP, der bei gewissen Konstellationen
mit dem Vollbildmodus Probleme macht.
Workaround: die gewünschte Auflösung hart im FreeRDP einstellen und dem
Client entsprechend zuweisen.

Für Consus ist FreeRDP noch nicht verfügbar.


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Am 27. Januar 2014 14:05 schrieb Daniel Zabel dan...@sunrising.de:

 Hallo zusammen,
 ich habe das Problem, dass ich einige Arbeitsplätze auf eine Terminal
 Lösung umziehen muss. Die Plätze sind teilweise mit zwei Monitoren
 ausgestattet. Dadurch kommt an diesen Plätzen, wie mir schient nur
 FreeRDP in frage.

 Ich habe jetzt eine Testumgebung aufgebaut um die Konfiguration zu
 testen. Leider scheint bei mir der Fullscreen Modus nicht zu
 funktionieren, da zwar in der Startleiste die Anwendung auftaucht und
 nach einer kurzen Zeit wieder verschwindet. Ich meine auch gesehen zu
 haben, dass das bei anderen auf vorkommt, jedoch habe ich keine Lösung
 gefunden um drum herum zu arbeiten.

 Ich habe das mit Minerva und Consus probiert. Beim letzteren habe ich
 erst später gesehen, dass das noch nicht eingebaut ist. Arbeitsplätze
 mit einem Bildschirm kann und werde ich das mit rdesktop in Angriff nehmen.

 Hat da jemand einen Tip für mich?

 Mit freundlichen Grüßen
 Daniel Zabel


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[openthinclient-user] sneak preview - build your own packages for version 2

2014-01-27 Thread Jörn Frenzel
Dear Users,

as Mark guessed right on the dev-list, the old tcos-dev environment will 
not work with version 2. The new way to build packages is similar to the 
old one and the new tcos-dev tools are ready to use now. Use it in the same 
way like in version 1.x .

Please download the latest tcos-dev_2.0.0-XX_i386.deb or 
tcos-dev_2.0.0-XX_amd64.deb from

http://archive.openthinclient.org/openthinclient/v2/devel/

Throw it into a Debian Wheezy using dpkg -i but install the following 
packages beforehand.

apt-get install openssh-server build-essential git autotools-dev 
build-essential debhelper devscripts dh-make fakeroot squashfs-tools 
gcc-multilib apt-utils apache2 java-package xserver-xorg apache2 
debconf-utils debbootstrap screen ipython

Last week we started to consolidate all the dev-stuff and we hope to give 
you more detailed instructions for version 2.x soon. Please be patient one 
more week. Expect a compact howtow about creating your own packages and 
building your own base.

By the way guys ... what about a developer weekend in spring or summer?

Kind regards, Jörn

Am 27.01.2014 17:54, schrieb Stecher, Alexander:
 Hallo,

 das ist ein Bug vom eingesetzten FreeRDP, der bei gewissen Konstellationen
 mit dem Vollbildmodus Probleme macht.
 Workaround: die gewünschte Auflösung hart im FreeRDP einstellen und dem
 Client entsprechend zuweisen.

 Für Consus ist FreeRDP noch nicht verfügbar.


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 Am 27. Januar 2014 14:05 schrieb Daniel Zabel dan...@sunrising.de
 mailto:dan...@sunrising.de:

 Hallo zusammen,
 ich habe das Problem, dass ich einige Arbeitsplätze auf eine Terminal
 Lösung umziehen muss. Die Plätze sind teilweise mit zwei Monitoren
 ausgestattet. Dadurch kommt an diesen Plätzen, wie mir schient nur
 FreeRDP in frage.

 Ich habe jetzt eine Testumgebung aufgebaut um die Konfiguration zu
 testen. Leider scheint bei mir der Fullscreen Modus nicht zu
 funktionieren, da zwar in der Startleiste die Anwendung auftaucht und
 nach einer kurzen Zeit wieder verschwindet. Ich meine auch gesehen zu
 haben, dass das bei anderen auf vorkommt, jedoch habe ich keine Lösung
 gefunden um drum herum zu arbeiten.

 Ich habe das mit Minerva und Consus probiert. Beim letzteren habe ich
 erst später gesehen, dass das noch nicht eingebaut ist. Arbeitsplätze
 mit einem Bildschirm kann und werde ich das mit rdesktop in Angriff 
 nehmen.

 Hat da jemand einen Tip für mich?

 Mit freundlichen Grüßen
 Daniel Zabel

 
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Re: [openthinclient-user] Raspberry PI

2014-01-27 Thread Mark D-B
Dear Rob et al,

   There has been an expression of interest in getting iPXE running on 
the Pi 
(http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2012-September/001878.html) 
but as far as I can tell it has not been done, so unless someone fancies 
completing that work then having OTC locally on the SD sounds like it 
would be the best option.

   I have an early Pi model B, so less memory than the current ones, and 
find it very useful for lots of things. I'd originally questioned its 
use as an OTC client as it isn't exactly blisteringly fast. However, on 
further thought this idea may actually make a lot more sense than I'd 
thought. If the monitor it is used with contains a USB hub, then you 
should be able to power the Pi from the monitor.

   The big problem though is going to be getting an OTC client image for 
the Pi. Given that Raspbian is a version of Debian Wheezy, the general 
environment should be OK but I don't think it will just be an ARM port 
that is needed. There are other considerations, such as the selection of 
whether the Pi is using the HDMI connector or the composite video 
(/boot/config.txt in Raspbian), which are likely to need non-standard 
features. This sounds like it may be a significant task, and would mean 
cross-compiling the OTC core which I suspect does not make economic 
sense for the OTC developers when the target is a very specific piece of 
hardware.

   A possible alternative would be to use QEMU to emulate the Pi but 
with much more memory and then create an OTC development environment on 
the emulated machine. Given that the OTC core doesn't come from the 
development OS, I'm not sure that this would actually help much.

   Much though I like the Pi (particularly as they are that rare thing - 
something which is actually made in the UK!), I think a miniature x86 is 
more viable for OTC, unless there is someone out there who plans to use 
the Pi for a large number of OTC clients and thereby make it worthwhile?

All the best,

Mark

On 27/01/14 16:04, Frank Burnham wrote:
 I was interested in this too; Pi B out of the box does not, but according to 
 this thread it can be done with some work:

 http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7t=1444

 I like the idea of the cubbiebaord2 though as mentioned by Miguel; thanks. If 
 anyone has practical experience of implementing OTC via these devices there 
 appears to be some interest in the OTC community

 Regards,

 Frank

 -Original Message-
 From: Robert Charlebois [mailto:r...@baytechplastics.com]
 Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 5:49 AM
 To: openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net
 Subject: Re: [openthinclient-user] Raspberry PI

 Yes I was thinking model B.  is the chip in the Pi not PXE compatible?
 Even booting from SD would be nice as an inexpensive OTC device.  Low power 
 consumption as well.  Rig it up to a case that you can attach to VESA mount 
 on the back of a monitor and it makes for a real compact work environment.

 Our current use of OTC is just as a terminal for users to log into any otc 
 client and rdp to a certain pre-defined machine.  Perhaps I am missing 
 something here but I thought it would be a great idea.

 Rob...


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 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:33:46 +
 From: Mark D-B newsgroup@virginmedia.com
 Subject: Re: [openthinclient-user] Raspberry Pi
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 Dear Robert,

 Would you mind explaining what you have in mind please? I am guessing 
 that you mean using the Pi model B as client, booting from the SD card rather 
 than PXE, but I can't see an obvious use case for the Pi with OTC.

 All the best,

 Mark

 On 22/01/14 18:15, Robert Charlebois wrote:
 Any thoughts or plans about porting OTC to Raspberry Pi?

 Robert Charlebois

 Systems/Network Specialist

 Baytech Plastics Inc

 320 Elizabeth Street

 Midland, ON, L4R 4L6

 P: 705-526-0591  x  354

 C: 705-427-0546

 F: 705-526-3521

 E: r...@baytechplastics.com

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