hello friends,
I have installed jaunty with ltsp on a laptop - for testing. after the
install, I took my workstation and booted from the laptop. all worked
ok. no problem.
then I installed one app in the chroot environment and did an
ltsp-update-image. now when I boot the workstation again
hello,
I have posted before my problems that I had with the edubuntu ltsp
server. and I want to say thank you again to everybody for your
professional and endless help.
And I am happy and of course proud to announce, that we have started
our linux course with 15 youngsters at the age of 11
hi and Moin, Moin
I am a little bit puzzled now: some documentation I found on lts.conf
tlaks about:
USE_NBD_SWAP=Y|N
you and other sources talk about
NBD_SWAP=True|False
which one should I use in ltsp5.
also, so far my biggest problems are on the network side. what is the
easiest way
hello,
how do you handle the individual menus of the users, if e.g. you want
to add a shortcut for all users?
could you point me to where I have to change it?
rgds,
uwe
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hi,
I played around a bit, but do not get it working. I added
[MAC-ADRESS HERE]
LDM_USERNAME=someuser
LDM_PASSWORD=somepassword
the account exists. but the client with the max adress does not
autologin. I guess I have to specify more parameters, right? but where?
tks.
uwe
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hello,
thank you for all your help.
... but I have a final question for today ;-)
what can you easily use and administer in terms of a content filter
for web pages? any recommendation?
I do not have so high security issues with my 10 and 11 years old kids
and no one else will be able to
david,
when you say build-the-low-fat client are there any modifications, I
need to do on the client side?
I am asking because I can not touch the existing hardware, yet I have
quite good clients and some things are slow using ltsp. having a low
or high fat client would enable me to maybe
hello friends,
I have a similar problem. I have re-installed the server. I went to
8.04 and at the same time implemented software raid to our server
which had been running several month in our local school.
now when the server starts the following happens: the first client
that boots is
Anh Hung,
I am giving linux lessons at our local school in germany using
edubuntu. we have one server - a quad core, 4gb machine - that I put
together myself. I am teaching up to 10 children at one time. a clear
limitation that I see are: games and video. the server has problems of
hello everybody,
the schoolyear is over here in germany and I have taken the server
home for maintenance. I built this server at the beginning of the year
and been teaching linux at our local school to students of 6 to 8th
class.
at the time I setup the system, I have used one harddisk
Adam,
I did not see any answers, so I though I might jump in.
if you have phased out computers, as you say, then I guess you have
Edubuntu installed on each of them. for the authentication part, I am
not the right person but there is a lot of information available on
the net and of course
hello all together,
I have created a business rule engine already some month ago, but I
haven't had a lot of feedback so far. anyway, I thought that one or
the other of you might be interested. excuse me if you feel it is a
little bit off-topic.
the basic idea is, to have e.g. a text file
hi milton,
I have just built a new server with a Geoforce 9600 GT card and that
works fine with the video drivers from the nvidia website.
but I believe yours should be supported. but maybe its your monitor
that is not set to allow a higher resolution. from the Applications
menu look if
I would recommend to anyone, who wants to learn a database, to start
on the console. same as for learning html, jave, etc. you can always
switch to a GUI at a later point of time in the process but at the
start it is important to learn the bascis and not have a tool do the
work.
mysql is
I as a first shot - without having detailed information of your
requirements - I would say use rsync. it's fast, does incremental
updates and works through ssh if you want to.
rgds,
uwe
Quoting Hamed alSuhli [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi
what is the most reliable service that backupsynchronize
I would go for fanless clients though, if you want to use real thin
clients to avoid too much noise.
we have a classroom where the switch makes such a noise, that it really
disturbs everybody.
you really want a quiet classroom when there is nobody working on the
computers. such as when a
hello everybody. now that my classes are running on a weekly basis, I am
discovering more and more problems.
none of the clients mounts the cd when I insert it into the client. and
obviously they also do not mount usb sticks. I have tested both on the
server and it works ok.
additionally I had
, 14:21 + schrieb Gavin McCullagh:
Hi,
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Uwe Geercken wrote:
today - first class after the holidays - I tested the flash video
tutorial again. I bootet one client to the ltsp server and started the
webtutorial which has a flash plugin.
although I
(giving working sound et al.) If it's not that, perhaps you can give the
link and someone on the list can check to see if they can duplicate the
issue.
David
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:01:58PM +0100, Uwe Geercken wrote
hello justin,
I have the same problem. but I had a machine with good internet
access. so I created a mirror: I downloaded about 20GB of data from a
site and put it on an external disk I had. it contains all packages
from main, restricted, universe and multiverse repositories. then I
added
casey,
I have built my own very small thin client with a via chipset. it has
no ventilator and no disk and no dvd (although you could put them in).
so it is very compact and absolutely silent. I have tested with
putting in a Samsung laptop 20GB disk which is very silent so that you
scott,
I have downloaded the flash support from adobe and installed it without
problems. and I have installed it on a computer at work.
rgds,
uwe
Am Freitag, den 01.02.2008, 15:39 -1000 schrieb R. Scott Belford:
Greetings
There seems to have been some changes since this download was
hello together.
I have installed the server at our local school and made some first
tests today.
the server is:
- Core 2 Quad 4 x 2.44 GHz
- 4 GB Dual-Channel-800 Memory
- Gigabit LAN
- 500GB + 200 GB Samsung SATA Disks
- Gigabit Switch
- Clients connected using 100Mb network
- HP 3600 Color
as we are from multiple countries, different cultures and of different
mother language - mine is german - one can also expect that sometimes
what you read is not exactly what the writer meant. as english is not
my mother tongue, this happen e.g. then on the other hand people can
have a look here:
https://wiki.edubuntu.org/InstallX11VncOnLtspClients
rgds,
uwe
Zitat von [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Can anyone point me to a resource that describes setting up thin client
manager to allow the viewer to work???
Thanks,
Ron
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Steve,
please don't put windows on those machines. I believe I speak for all
when I say, give us some more details, ask more questions and we will
get your setup going.
can you please provide us with more details on the computers: brand
and type. we might find out how to get into the Bios
unplugged the clients boot well from the
edubuntu server I have.
rgds,
uwe
Quoting Asmo Koskinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Uwe Geercken kirjoitti:
Steve,
please don't put windows on those machines. I believe I speak for
all when I say, give us some more details, ask more questions and
we
not
work its the fault of linux, as people tend to do sometimes.
tks.
uwe
Quoting Oliver Grawert [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
hi,
On Do, 2008-01-17 at 13:20 +0100, Uwe Geercken wrote:
as you are talking about dhcp. when you have two dhcp servers in one
network, which one is picked up first.
the one
Uwe Geercken [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Joseph,
this afternoon I will run the first tests with about 6 kids (12/13
years old). I preconfigured the server at home and have tested some
games also. my kids e.g. like to play frozen-bubble. they are really
crazy about it. at the end of the last year, I made
Joe,
I just built our Core2 Quad and will install it in the school tomorrow
and do the first tests. It has 4GB Dual Channel DDR-800 Ram, Gigabit
Network and 700 GB Samsung 16Mb Harddisk. the clients (around 20) are
Windows machines which are used during normal school hours. the
linux
Joseph,
this afternoon I will run the first tests with about 6 kids (12/13
years old). I preconfigured the server at home and have tested some
games also. my kids e.g. like to play frozen-bubble. they are really
crazy about it. at the end of the last year, I made a competition with
them
]:
Hi,
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Uwe Geercken wrote:
actually I do not need a grafic card on the server but I though it
would be good to have a cheap basic one, just in case I would want to
work on the server or use an attached beamer or so.
You definitely need _a_ graphic card, I just don't
point. can you recommend a brand of raid controllers
that will work fine? what about the disk. any basic recommendations
for it (brand/size)?
thanks a lot.
uwe
Quoting Gavin McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Uwe Geercken wrote:
I know that the main components like lan
hello friends,
our school has a new computer room with a lot of windows pc's. after a
lot of talking and patience, I can now move in and use it for my linux
courses for the kids of 7th/8th class.
we have been working for nearly a year in a seperate classroom with
lowend hardware, but now
Christopher,
I have built a thin client myself - this was the first computer I ever
built myself and it took me 15 minutes to put everything together.
the parts:
- Epia ML6000 motherboard (around 95 Euro)
- Morex Cubid 3677 (around 90 Euro)
- 256 Mb of RAM (around 20 Euro)
it is small, has no
hi jim,
I just joined the team. I am a 43 year old german linux enthusiast working in
switzerland. I program a lot with java, I create web apps, architect systems
and love everything around data and databases. other than that, I am an
allrounder and started working with computers at the age of
neverending help to everybody.
uwe
Zitat von Gavin McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Uwe Geercken wrote:
card that is used for internet access has 192.168.0.1 / 255.255.255.0.
internal lan traffic has 192.168.1.1 / 255.255.255.0.
now the traffic from the server
2007 à 16:16 +0200, Uwe Geercken a écrit :
btw: i am not booting the clients to the ltsp server. the client is a
fat client
for the moment, but I want to be able to have it work also in this
scenario.
You could look at this link :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientHowtoNAT
François
hello everybody,
I still have problems with handling languages for different users.
before I had a dell workstation with edubuntu and everybody logged in locally on
this workstation. this worked perfectly also with different languages for
different people without the need of specifying the
I am using Dell since years. They always worked well with Ubuntu, except from
small things.
Lets collect and send Dell some greetings for this fine step!
Uwe Geercken
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zitat von Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
A little off topic for the list, but exciting. Below
hello again,
one more thing I have found, which I do not understand. I am using a thin client
without a disk. when I boot to the LTSP server and login, all works ok.
I can connect a memory stick to the thin client and it is detected and I can
work with it. if I try to connect a USB DVD burner
there are also other things that are in the way to implement linux.
currently we in germany are still trying to equip a lot of schools that have
been left out in the past for various reasons. as economy is on its way up, in
many places money is made available to buy computers for the schools.
one more thing:
if we all somehow try to setup a senseful demo case for schools, so that they
understand what they get and see the benefits, should we not collect all these
thought and experiences and write these things down, so others can benefit from
it also?
rgds,
uwe
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von Gavin McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Uwe Geercken wrote:
as I select it_IT.UTF-8 as language in the login dialog, this does not
seem to
be right. .UTF-8 would be duplicated, which would fit to the error.
so I changed it to:
lang_command = 'LC_ALL
the bug in launchpad is:
Bug #82427
rgds,
uwe
Zitat von Gavin McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Uwe Geercken wrote:
as I select it_IT.UTF-8 as language in the login dialog, this does not
seem to
be right. .UTF-8 would be duplicated, which would fit
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