Re: Starting off with Edubuntu LTS

2011-10-29 Thread David Van Assche
helped me out when I got stuck kind regards, David Van Assche On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:13 AM, David Groos djgr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dave, Sounds like you are new to Edubuntu? Welcome. I've been using Ubuntu running the LTSP system (thin clients) for 3+ years now in my classroom of 20 or so

Re: Planning for summer work/next school year

2011-08-02 Thread David Van Assche
is Cfegine2 has been around for almost 15 more years than Puppet.. but what do know I was never able to present my project. kind reagrds, David Van Assche, dvanass...@gmail.com https://plus.google.com/105755016516404936114/posts http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=27863899locale=en_UStrk

Re: Acer Netbooks + Edubuntu

2010-10-21 Thread David Van Assche
-, as older kids are actually still use to normal computers., they can actaullyn understand the difference between running a thin terminal or that. kind regards, David Van Assche On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Charl Wentzel charl.went...@vodamail.co.za wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 12:15 +0200, Lenin

Re: Ubuntu in Education resources from Canonical

2010-09-02 Thread David Van Assche
school system, Castilla and Leon uses Ubuntu too. The entire country of Portugal uses Caixa Magica LTSP which is based on Mandriva. So for the Iberic peninsula (Spain + Portugal) I would estimate a good 6-7 million computers running Educational Linux (mostly ubuntu) kind regards, David Van Assche

Re: Laptop, wlan, lan, nat, iTalc, crossover cable and thin client

2009-11-21 Thread David Van Assche
Yeah, I've been doing that for a while now... works great... I used it to show of sugar running over LTSP with a jabber server running... as long as u dont go overboard with the cliens, then its the perfect demo environment which I have used to show at many a school.. kind Regards, David Vam

Re: Leaving Edubuntu

2009-10-05 Thread David Van Assche
who are genuinely here to help... If you really want to help out, the list I mentioned a couple of emails back would be a great starting point... kind regards, David Van Assche www.nubae.com On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:53 PM, R. Scott Belford sc...@hosef.org wrote: David, I could not care less about

Re: Leaving Edubuntu

2009-10-05 Thread David Van Assche
forgot my reference: [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2008/01/msg00069.html On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:30 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.comwrote: Its clear you don't really know what you are talking about. Debian-edu has nothing to do with Edubuntu, and Vagrant C is involved

Re: Leaving Edubuntu

2009-10-05 Thread David Van Assche
Redirecting back to list, for the sake of transparency. I will not respond to direct attacks and accusations. So I'll terminate my part in this thread here. kind regards, David Van Assche www.nubae.com On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:40 PM, R. Scott Belford sc...@hosef.org wrote: I'm sorry, David

Re: HOWTO: Asus Eee as a thin client

2009-09-03 Thread David Van Assche
of moodle is vast give it a chance and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised... kind regards, David Van Assche www.linux-for-education.org - - - - - www.nubae.org On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Asmo Koskinen asmo.koski...@arkki.infowrote: Hi, I added a HOWTO. https://help.ubuntu.com

fatclient script updated

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
on the job of working on it for the next months, so u can expect some feature improvements. If there are any suggestions for it, I'm all ears too... The script is available here: http://www.nubae.com/030-fatclient kind Regards, David Van Assche -- Samuel Goldwynhttp://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors

Re: Clean up Edubuntu Homepage

2009-07-31 Thread David Van Assche
If you're adding to LTSP, use this as entry page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:44 AM, David Groos djgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for some guidance on how to name a wiki page. I'm guessing this is the base: https://wiki.edubuntu.org/ but what

Re: Task for everyone with a Jaunty /LTSP installation

2009-07-30 Thread David Van Assche
This is a really good idea, and highly useful to edubuntu users and devs... It should probably be mentioned on the main website some place... David On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Jordan Mantha laserj...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Jordan

Re: Hiring Edubuntu Staff

2009-07-27 Thread David Van Assche
He means Sabayon the profile manager, not Sabayon the gentoo based OS... Sabayon is the best hope we have for a nice desktop profile management tool, though development on it stopped after Redhat pulled the plug on it... Scott has been good enough to get it working on Ubuntu, and I guess resume

Re: Is edubuntu still using openoffice 2.0 ??

2009-07-27 Thread David Van Assche
That page is super obsolete. Unfortunately, those of us with edubuntu.org access do not have access to ubuntu.com or any of its subpages. It would require getting in contact with someone involved with the ubuntu.com website team... kind regards, David On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Ace

Re: Clean up Edubuntu Homepage

2009-07-23 Thread David Van Assche
to visulise how things will look there isn't really an alternative. kind regards, David Van Assche On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Scott Balneavessbaln...@legalaid.mb.ca wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:14:06PM -0400, Ace Suares wrote: Dear list, I am willing to clean up the edubuntu home page

linux for education portal

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
Hi there, We've just launched a pretty decent start for a linux for education portal that should contain hundreds (we already have about 50) totally creative commons or similar free license courses that can be used online directly (guest access to all courses) or downloaded to export into one's

Re: linux for education portal

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
And I forgot the actual address of the site of course: www.linux-for-education.org On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:42 PM, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there,   We've just launched a pretty decent start for a linux for education portal that should contain hundreds (we already have

Re: Empty and not readable /etc/resolv.conf file

2009-04-06 Thread David Van Assche
Try editing: /etc/default/ltsp-client-setup And then rebuild client David Van Assche On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Asmo Koskinen asmo.koski...@arkki.info wrote: Hi, this is updated Jaunty Beta. I can use localapps with ip numbers, but not with dns names. r...@ltsp200:~# ping

Re: Empty and not readable /etc/resolv.conf file

2009-04-06 Thread David Van Assche
, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Asmo Koskinen asmo.koski...@arkki.info wrote: David Van Assche kirjoitti: Try editing: /etc/default/ltsp-client-setup And then rebuild client David - this one? admin-lt...@ubuntu-ltsp5:~$ sudo nano /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/default/ltsp-client-setup This line

Re: Empty and not readable /etc/resolv.conf file

2009-04-06 Thread David Van Assche
You could also use the lts.conf to set DNS_SERVER to whatever you want for the thin client David On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:08 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: yeah thats the one, notice how /etc/resolv.conf is mentioned there, if u take it out, then it will not overwrite your

Re: Empty and not readable /etc/resolv.conf file

2009-04-06 Thread David Van Assche
Ah... thats why it works for fatclient, but not for localapps... Still, where is resolv.conf coming from in nbd root environments then? David On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com wrote: hi, Am Montag, den 06.04.2009, 17:25 +0300 schrieb Asmo Koskinen: David Van

Re: LTSP testing in Jaunty - how fat is local apps?

2009-03-28 Thread David Van Assche
, David Van Assche On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:51 PM, graydebo...@tiscali.co.uk graydebo...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Lets see if I have go this as I fancy a go, assuming Ubuntu 9 is out at the end of April, not long to wait. Jaunty is Ubuntu 9, I an running LTSP on 8.10 and trying the Nubae fat client

Re: First try, Jaunty Alternate, a bug

2009-02-27 Thread David Van Assche
Well, I can't even change my network settings under Jaunty, even with changing policy kit. It seems my connections are read only and totally locked down... I don't want to revert to using something other than network manager, but this is close to leaving no choice... David Van Assche On Fri, Feb

Re: LTSP client sometimes logs out unexpectedly...

2009-02-23 Thread David Van Assche
, or server cpu or ram being stressed, that kind of thing. kind Regards, David Van Assche On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Luis Miguel R. luismigue...@gmail.com wrote: El viernes, 20 febrero del 2009 a las 10:13:30, David Groos escribió: Last weekend, while working on the LTSP server setup on an LTSP

kde and sugar integration in jaunty

2009-02-07 Thread David Van Assche
Hi there, I guess this is mostly an interesting message for -devel, but I believe the input of -users is valuable in this case. I'm currently at the Fossdem event and have had the opportunity to talk to both the ubuntu representatives and more importantly the kde people. The kde guys emphasised

Re: mass account creation in LTSP fatclient

2009-02-02 Thread David Van Assche
I want to echo Asmio's sentiments.. Webmin got a bit of a bad rap in ed/ubuntu circles. It was basically considered evil and insecure and messed with your config files in an irreverible way. Then there were tej falso rumours of it not being maintained for 2 years (totallyy untrue) I've been using

Re: LTSP5 and openLDAP, first draft in finnish

2009-01-27 Thread David Van Assche
between server and chroot... kind Regards, David Van Assche On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Asmo Koskinen asmo.koski...@arkki.info wrote: Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: http://wiki.ubuntu-fi.org/LTSP5_openLDAP Ahh,.. this is not a howto, it is more like a big picture how to system works

Re: Using nubae fatclient [was Re: which release to use?]

2009-01-21 Thread David Van Assche
,async) | sudo tee -a /etc/exports /dev/null sudo exportfs -a Also, as u correctly guessed, eth1 is normally the internal IP... so switch those 2 around either in the script, or in the server kind Regards, David On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:47 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah

Re: problems pidgin with ltsp server

2009-01-18 Thread David Van Assche
/audio chat across the local network. kind Regards, David Van Assche www.nubae.com On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:26 AM, uwe uwe.geerc...@datamelt.com wrote: hello everybody, I have one ltsp 5 server at school and 15 kids. I wanted to introduce them to using pidgin via the bonjour protokol

Re: which release to use?

2009-01-15 Thread David Van Assche
there. I'll let you know where I get stuck, and if you can help, that would be much appreciated. Last time I checked, one couldn't even get to the ldm screen if I remember correctly. kind Regards, David Van Assche www.nubae.com On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Gavin McCullagh gmccull...@gmail.com

Re: which release to use?

2009-01-14 Thread David Van Assche
that happens in a school district I don't have the resources to rebuild/test/re-intigrate ubuntu every release cycle. What are your thoughts? John On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:28 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sameer Veerma, You shuold be using intrepid Ibex. Many changes

telepathy, empathy and collaboration in gnome

2008-12-18 Thread David Van Assche
Here's an article about the state of collaboration in gnome itself, and a review of empathy, the new integrated gnome telepathy client, with support for tubes, as well as some other apps that do collaboration: http://www.nubae.com/telepathy-empathy-and-collaboration Kind Regards, David Van

Re: Set default session for thin clients on LTSP

2008-10-24 Thread David Van Assche
The easiest solution is creating ~/.xsession for the users that includes the line: exec /usr/bin/startxfce4 Kind Regards David Van Assche On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Todd O'Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 with the LTSP packages and would like to set Xfce

Sugar, collaboration and LTSP on Ubuntu

2008-10-17 Thread David Van Assche
the sugar experience with no installation necessary on the cliens. The steps mentioned can be easily replicated on other distros using the distro specific package manager. Here is a howto I wrote: http://www.nubae.com/sugar-on-ltsp-ubuntu-intrepid-ibex Kind Regards, David Van Assche www.nubae.com

Re: fat client

2008-10-14 Thread David Van Assche
Let me know the steps u take so I can include it in the script... Kind Regards, David Van Assche www.nubae.com On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Asmo Koskinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: This seems to be some kind of bug. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: fat client

2008-10-14 Thread David Van Assche
The script should give u localisation for finnish too... It reads that on package installation. So go ahead and add hardy-updates and maybe even hardy-proposed David Van Assche www.nubae.com On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Asmo Koskinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: Well

Re: fat client

2008-10-14 Thread David Van Assche
investigate what could be getting stuck in the runlevels... Kind Regards, David Van Assche On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Asmo Koskinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: 5. Uhh... ;-) - 1 M ADSL at home... ;-) Over 1 hour left... ;-) 0 päivitetty, 889 uutta asennusta, 0 poistettavaa

Re: 8.04 ltsp +slow

2008-10-13 Thread David Van Assche
Hi, The 2 are related... you can in fact use any of the following in the lts.conf: True, true, False, false, Yes, yes, No, no The second part of the question is more difficult On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Uwe Geercken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi and Moin, Moin I am a little bit

Re: 8.04 ltsp +slow

2008-10-13 Thread David Van Assche
Ogra just pointed out that USE_NBD_SWAP is in fact a ltsp 4 option and NBD_SWAP is ltsp 5, though in theory they -should- be interusable... David Van Assche www.nubae.com On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:42 PM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The 2 are related... you can in fact use

Re: fat client

2008-10-13 Thread David Van Assche
and ubuntu in terms of cpu usage, ram usage and power usage... Kind Regards, David Van Assche, www.nubae.com On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Krsnendu dasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to build a low fat client using xubuntu to make things even lighter? (I don't understand much about

Re: fat client

2008-10-13 Thread David Van Assche
right... just run the command: ltsp-build-client --chroot fati386 --fatclient Ubuntu --highfat Let me know if there are issues, as I have not tested the hardy version yet... kind regards, David Van Assche www.nubae.com On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:51 PM, uwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi david

Re: fat client

2008-10-10 Thread David Van Assche
Hi Gavin, On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Gavin McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, this is interesting stuff. Thanks On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, David Van Assche wrote: I suppose I can put up a Hardy version on my website. Probably no harm. I suspect a lot of people will want to stick

Re: fat client

2008-10-10 Thread David Van Assche
testing to see what it will and will not run on. Obviously choosing high fat or low fat will make a difference... Kind Regards, David Van Assche www.nubae.com On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Uwe Geercken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: david, when you say build-the-low-fat client are there any

Re: system still crawling.... help

2008-10-06 Thread David Van Assche
-errors file in the user (u are trying to login with) home dir. Kind Regards, David Van Assche On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Luis Montes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jordan Erickson wrote: Are those NBD logs still happening frequently? Constantly. Even after doing the standard ltsp-update-image

Re: Thin Client Manager

2008-10-04 Thread David Van Assche
Thin Client Manager is no longer supported, have a look at Italc, which allows for logging off remote users as well as desktop sharing and intra-thin client messaging sudo apt-get install italc-master italc-client Kind Regards, David Van Assche On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Mike White

Re: Minimum client expectations, LTSP Triage

2008-09-14 Thread David Van Assche
to the network. If all a user wants is information or to send an email (often the case) we send them to one of these text only terminals David Van Assche On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Oliver Grawert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, On So, 2008-09-14 at 18:59 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Certainly

Re: iTalc and Ubuntu 8.04.1/LTSP5

2008-09-12 Thread David Van Assche
or teacher is easy enough. I did the installation by downloading the debs on the launchpad page and installed with dpkg... worked straight away. Kind Regards, David Van Assche On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Asmo Koskinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: I tested iTalc

Re: New Direction for LTSP: Diskless Remote Boot

2008-09-10 Thread David Van Assche
that, synching user/group lists with the server and such... but I'm still wondering whether local apps is not a better approach, since with it, you don't overload the local machine with everything, you get to pick and choose... David Van Assche On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Robert Arkiletian [EMAIL

Re: Is it just me, or is LTSP a mess?

2008-09-10 Thread David Van Assche
channel, where you will probably get an answer to any question within minutes. oh, and for the record... the devs do read this list... Kind Regards, David Van Assche On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Asmo is certainly

Re: Rdesktop script

2008-09-10 Thread David Van Assche
From what I understand, it does, but requires a bit of tinkering... in lts.conf add: SCREEN_01 = rdesktop -f -a 8 -g 1024x768 -N 192.168.1.254 and make sure you have rdesktop installed inside the chroot... sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get install rdesktop Kind Regards, David Van Assche

Re: Is it just me, or is LTSP a mess?

2008-09-10 Thread David Van Assche
How do u know it is not working? can u paste some data? David Van Assche On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Todd O'Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:05 AM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've taken a look into the email in question, and can answer some

Re: Is it just me, or is LTSP a mess?

2008-09-10 Thread David Van Assche
Rather than make this heated, lets try and keep it productive so the thread becomes helpful rather than offensive. On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:58 PM, R. Scott Belford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:05 PM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've taken a look

Re: Is it just me, or is LTSP a mess?

2008-09-09 Thread David Van Assche
Asmo is certainly not the only person. I know of at least 10 live deployments that have no problems with ubuntu/edubuntu. I'm running pentium 2 500mhz with 128 mb ram as the majority of my thin clients (must be a good 8-10 years old) and they run like clockwork... the problems almost always have

Re: how do you kill a user's old processes when they try to log back on

2008-09-01 Thread David Van Assche
) as well as hard drive thrashing with open office and that kind of thing... but if you upgrade to 8.0.1 (or is it 2 now) it should be fine If you miss teacher tool, take a look at italc... much more powerful and now has intra station messaging... works nicely to monitor thin terminals... David Van

Re: how do you get something to run when a user logs on?

2008-08-28 Thread David Van Assche
In reality, there has been no move away from the standard practices you describe below. The difference is that we often forget that the /etc/profile and .../PostLogin are really being read from the user's chroot (/opt/ltsp/name-of-chroot/etc/profile) and that these then need to be rebuilt using

Re: Sabayon

2008-07-17 Thread David Van Assche
Sabayon isn't perfect, but it's the best option there is for locking down the desktop on a per user or per group basis (with the help of pessulus.) I have used it to lockdown exam accounts... basically set up a skeleton account with the exams, remove internet access, offer a menu with only the

Re: Totally Wipe a Hard Drive

2008-06-20 Thread David Van Assche
I assume you are talking about grub and the way it lists the kernel upgrades... Ususally it automatically loads up the latest kernel, and the other stuff is just there in case something has gone wrong with your current install... But you can simply edit the grub boot up options and erase what you

Re: Edubuntu classroom server

2008-06-15 Thread David Van Assche
Indeed it can, by using the -server kernel. That is to say, do a search for -server with apt-cache (sudo apt-cache search -server) and then install with apt-get (sudo apt-get install server-kernel-package) Kind Regards On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 8:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know the

Re: Towards a simpler desktop environment: What is the current state of the art?

2008-05-28 Thread David Van Assche
, or exam accounts) Kind Regards, David Van Assche On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:53 AM, nigel barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I had kids with whole toolbars full of bloody eyes last year. Not good when visitors come around! The kiosk tool works, though has some quirks with upgrades resetting some

Re: How to run iTalc with Hardy LTSP server

2008-05-22 Thread David Van Assche
it requires the actual IP of the server (ie. 192.168.0.254) Apparently, in the next Italc release/s there will be a client side part of Italc allowing clients to message the master italc computer... this would allow for users to ask for help/support. Kind Regards, David Van Assche On Wed, May 21

Re: Mixing thin and fat clients

2008-05-19 Thread David Van Assche
And for a good howto take a look here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients Kind Regards, David On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Manu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 2008/5/19 Paul J. Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Forgive me if this is a stupid question but can

Re: Fat clients or standalone for DVD watching?

2008-05-19 Thread David Van Assche
diskless would be the way to go. Kind Regards, David Van Assche On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Gavin McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sun, 18 May 2008, Tom Atkins wrote: We are buying a couple of new PCs for 'multimedia' in the same lab - in particular watching of DVD's

Re: 64bit server and 64 bit clients

2008-05-16 Thread David Van Assche
For 64 bit clients, you need to feed pxe with amd64, not i386. So change your dhcpd.conf file to have /opt/ltsp/amd64 The /opt/ltsp/amd64 directory and the image should already have been created when you installed the LTSP server. Kind Regards, David On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Nicolas

Re: Customizing login screen for LTSP (LDM)

2008-05-12 Thread David Van Assche
You can copy one of the existing themes, change it in a graphics program like gimp and then replace it with the actual ldm theme used. The ldm themes are here: /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/ldm/themes/ and the one used is called default, though I believe its just a link from an existing theme, in this

Re: Copying over users without LDAP

2008-05-07 Thread David Van Assche
Really, you just need to do an nfs export if you have copied the passwd, shadow and group files from the main box into the chroot. This document shows you how to do that, and has a little script which you can launch from lts.conf at bootup:

Re: minimum specs for low fat clients

2008-04-30 Thread David Van Assche
The recommended minimum for cpu is probably 600-800mhz with absolute minimum ram being 256 megs. Gnome will run on lower cpus but if you intend to use the low fat client for multimedia apps and video streaming 1ghz+ and 500 Ram is recommended. Video card specs are not that important, but again,

Re: don't work LTSP5

2008-04-30 Thread David Van Assche
I've been thrown to a busybox prompt after loading the ubuntu terminals, and noticed that this is due to an external tftp or dhcp server interfering, every time. So check on your network that the systems are really being loaded from the server and not your router (you cannot just plug your router

Re: call for spec suggestions

2008-04-18 Thread David Van Assche
this should have gone to the list sorry... the replyto really should give you edubuntu-users, not the last user... On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:18 PM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At a school level you cannot even give access to the console let alone expect them to learn databasing

Re: call for spec suggestions

2008-04-11 Thread David Van Assche
Part of the UK curriculum is about sensors which includes things like picking up mics, etc... so that working on the the thin clients would definitely be important if possible. On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Gavin McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wed, 09 Apr 2008, dbclinton wrote:

Re: Recommendations for filtering?

2008-04-11 Thread David Van Assche
I would definitely recommend using dansguardian and squid along with some simple iptables directioning by groups, if everything is running on the same machine. This way you should just be able to send teachers directly to squid and students to dansguardian... On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:48 PM,

Re: Thin client login screen problem

2008-03-15 Thread David Van Assche
Hi Jeroen, sounds like a permissions problem, I believe you need to set the folder to have permissions 755... David On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Jeroen Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, When I changed the login theme for the thin clients by: sudo cp -r

Re: terminals randomly disconnecting

2008-03-10 Thread David Van Assche
I had a problem recently that was similar to yours where one particular unit would log out spontaneously at a random time, usually within 30 minutes. Sometimes when the user using that unit would log on they would get someone else's wallpaper or even home desktop. I couldn't figure out what was

low fat clients - 2 issues

2008-03-10 Thread David Van Assche
I've finally had some time to test my low fat clients to see what else can be done to get them working better, and for now I have managed to get all the software I needed to install within the chroot without problems (usually mounting proc and sys fix most installation issues.) Both Gnome and

Re: creating fat 'thin' clients with ltsp new problem

2008-03-04 Thread David Van Assche
the RCFILE have something to do with the rc0.d, rc1.d, ? Is there an IRC for the user group? I just have a few questions on future implementation of the fat client works. Thank you for your response. --- David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you been following the online howto

Re: Is Hardy ltsp ready for production?

2008-02-27 Thread David Van Assche
... On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Krsnendu dasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27/02/2008, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway... Hardy has fixed the issue, and one can install that and (possibly) run on a production server already... I am in the process of installing Gutsy

Re: creating fat 'thin' clients with ltsp

2008-02-26 Thread David Van Assche
Works with gutsy and hardy alpha 5... Did u put in the horrible hack to autoload gdm with the following: /etc/init.d/gdm restart /usr/sbin/gdm Try that first from the root login, then put it into an RC startup script. I've followed the howto from scratch and I don't believe there are any missing

Re: how activate my pen drive

2008-02-26 Thread David Van Assche
What is unacceptable, to pay Canonical, or the usb bug ;-) Anyway... Hardy has fixed the issue, and one can install that and (possibly) run on a production server already... On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:57 PM, R. Scott Belford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Austin wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008

Re: creating fat 'thin' clients with ltsp

2008-02-23 Thread David Van Assche
, Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:04:55 +0100, David Van Assche wrote I've been working through some of the low fat client stuff and to be honest it is far from a working scenario, (the nfsmount doesn't work when it should, I can only get it to mount manually

Re: Forgot to unmount /proc and /sys from chroot!!! HELP

2008-02-15 Thread David Van Assche
Yeah, indeed, you can reboot and that will unmount proc or/and sys. I've left it mounted various times, and realised during the ltsp-build-image stage, resulting in lots of nasty error messages, but no lasting damage. When it happenned, I restarted the computer, prayed a bit, and everything was a

virtualisation vs ltsp chroots

2008-02-15 Thread David Van Assche
Hi, I've been told that using a virtualised setup is better than using chroots for setting up low fat clients. I have my doubts about this, which are really questions I suppose. For one, I'd imagine that virtualising the chroots will be slower than using a chrooted environment, and that

Re: creating fat 'thin' clients with ltsp

2008-02-13 Thread David Van Assche
solution and would improve the responsiveness of the clients significantly. Thanks for the howto Alexander Hanff On Feb 12, 2008 11:42 PM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I've recently documented the steps needed to make alternative fat chroots with local apps

Re: creating fat 'thin' clients with ltsp

2008-02-13 Thread David Van Assche
... There are invariably many ways to achieve the same end result, but working with the ltsp structure so we can upgrade the environments as and when we need to will be important. David On Feb 13, 2008 8:55 PM, Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:42:29 +0100, David Van

creating fat 'thin' clients with ltsp

2008-02-12 Thread David Van Assche
Hi there, I've recently documented the steps needed to make alternative fat chroots with local apps and local cpu/memory usage. So called ltsp diskless workstations, or low fat clients. The wiki is here, and though is not complete, Ive tested it and it works (I am running it on 20 computers in

Re: gnome-watchdog (Phillip) testing in Gutsy?

2008-01-29 Thread David Van Assche
Is there a 64 bit version available anywhere, or perhaps the source code so we can make one? David On Jan 29, 2008 8:09 PM, Charles Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 29, 2008 1:17 PM, Jordan Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I ran across this thread from November last year - has

problems with graphics cards

2007-12-13 Thread David Van Assche
that others mention... Sadly, the only solution I see is making special chroots for all the exceptions to the rule (auto-detection of the graphics card details) David Van Assche -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Trouble With Gutsy

2007-12-13 Thread David Van Assche
I use amd64 with 32 bit clients and run flash (with sound), and realplayer, local sound, and usb (after patch) without any issues. Compared to using a 32 bit server, which has the inherent problem of the max memory issue, 64 bit is incredibly stable and uses surprisingly little memory... David

Re: problems with graphics cards

2007-12-13 Thread David Van Assche
On Dec 13, 2007 7:06 PM, R. Scott Belford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Van Assche wrote: I've been running 7.10 Gutsy on 60 computers with a powerful 64 bit server running on 6 Gigs of Ram (surprisingly little RAM is used) for a good 3 months now. I've read the reports of 7.10 being

Re: Trouble With Gutsy

2007-12-13 Thread David Van Assche
stuff, but when I tried to connect, the thin clients seemed to get stuck trying to load the proper system. Any help would be appreciated. --Ted Original Message Subject: Re: Trouble With Gutsy From: David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, December 13, 2007 8:28 am

Re: Edubuntu routing question -- from external to internal (fwd)

2007-11-20 Thread David Van Assche
Take a look here, this should add total routing, though masquerading with something like shorewall will make it even more transparent: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientHowtoNAT On Nov 20, 2007 8:07 PM, Gavin McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Tom Wolfe wrote: I'm

Re: libflashsupport on 64bit edubuntu

2007-11-15 Thread David Van Assche
: David Van Assche kirjoitti: Can 64bit edubuntu run sound in flash for 32 bit ltsp clients? Yes - with Gnash. http://wiki.ubuntu-fi.org/Edubuntu_7.10_Classroom_Server_%28x86_64%29 YouTube playing with a client: http://www.arkki.info/howto/Wiki/LTSP5_64/Client_Gnash.png

local devices (specifically usb thumbdrives) not working on edubuntu Gutsy

2007-11-07 Thread David Van Assche
local devices listed under /tmp/.sysadmin-ltspfs, but they dont seem to want to mount... any ideas what I can try next? David Van Assche -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users

Re: Package gnome-watchdog - cleans up gnome user session

2007-11-06 Thread David Van Assche
This is very cool, definetly useful for any real world scenario. Its a constant daily task to kill processes and/or show teachers and students how to do this themselves... Its very common for firefox not to start due to the 'you are already running another session of firefox' message. This will

Re: multiple clients requiring different chroots...

2007-11-01 Thread David Van Assche
setups mentioned yet. I can't believe I managed to get this far, gone are my days of configuring single machines... haleluyah! I'll try documenting my steps if there is any interest... Kind Regards, David Van Assche On 11/1/07, Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, So I've tried

Re: gutsy and regular PCs on edubuntu lan

2007-10-31 Thread David Van Assche
, with that you will get it working with 2 nics guaranteed... Setting up a local dns server will also improve connection times drastically in the normal client computers... Kind Regards, David Van Assche On 10/31/07, Gavin McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Philippe Rousselot

noapic problem with thin client loading

2007-10-31 Thread David Van Assche
loaded? Any ideas? Kind Regards, David Van Assche -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users

Re: multiple clients requiring different chroots...

2007-10-31 Thread David Van Assche
appreciated... David Van Assche On 10/31/07, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get the computers which I had running as workstations to join the thin client network, but am having some serious problems due to the current clients all being fglrx loading thin clients

Local Devices not working in Gutsy

2007-10-30 Thread David Van Assche
(alt+cntrl+f1), but I don't see that. However, the partionining is done fine, as it shows up perfectly when sticking the usb stick in the server directly. What else can I look at to get local devices to work? Kind Regards, David Van Assche -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users

Re: gutsy kiosk mode

2007-10-30 Thread David Van Assche
Hi Reiner, This is a nating problem... follow this and you should be fine: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientHowtoNAT Kind Regards, David Van Assche On 10/30/07, Reiner Schmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Michael, thanks for your help to build the kiosk mode. But there is still

Re: The 4GB problem

2007-10-30 Thread David Van Assche
. Someone with more knowledge might be able to help here. In any case, take a look into DRBL, it was quite easy to install and works wonderfully, although uninstalling it is a real pain... (http://drbl.sourceforge.net/) Kind Regards, David Van Assche On 10/29/07, Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: The 4GB problem

2007-10-30 Thread David Van Assche
+0100 schrieb David Van Assche: Hi Nicolas, I looked into the possibility of using edubuntu as a thin client server for 'fat clients', sometimes called workstations... Basically, each client gets its own chroot thats a pretty insane setup, why not use the same chroot for all users

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