Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Keeping sessions open?

2007-09-12 Thread Roy Souther
I made ViceWM to do just this. http://www.silicontao.com/software/ViceWM/ViceWM.html I comes with support for IceWM and KDE but could also be made to work with Gnome or any other desktop. On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 10:43 +0200, Fredrik Kjellman wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get my user sessions to

[Ltsp-discuss] GDM stopped working today on two networks, very odd.

2007-08-27 Thread Roy Souther
Has anyone else seen this problem? A client called me this morning about not having a GDM login manager anymore, just a grey screen and the X mouse icon. I messed with it for hours and found nothing wrong other then the gdm logs when I have debug on is showing negative session ID's, but not

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] GDM stopped working today on two networks, very odd.

2007-08-27 Thread Roy Souther
desktopserver gdm[3003]: gdm_xdmcp_display_alloc: display=192.168.0.39:0, session id=-1194644015, xdmcp_pending=2 Aug 27 16:04:03 desktopserver gdm[3003]: gdm_xdmcp_send_accept: Sending ACCEPT to 192.168.0.39 with SessionID=-1194644015 On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 15:59 -0600, Roy Souther wrote: Has anyone else

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp root of trust

2007-07-30 Thread Roy Souther
Francis, your post got me thinking. I am a big fan of SSH PKI. If a login manager could be made to require and id_dsa key, would that make the session more secure? Maybe the open source etherboot project could be made to require server identity before booting. One way an attack like this could

[Ltsp-discuss] Neoware Wiki updated

2007-06-06 Thread Roy Souther
On the Wiki for Neoware thin clients http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/NeowareThinClients I have updated the section on EON's. I think the section on Capio systems could use a lot of work. There are many models and the differences are not well documented on the page. I have downloaded the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NeoWare c50 (Linux) with LTSP

2007-06-05 Thread Roy Souther
I have bought a lot of Capio's and Eon's all different model numbers. I find the newer Capio's have much better video on-board. The Eon's have really bad video on-board so I just install a PCI video card and do not even try the on-board video for the Eon's any more. It can be a risk, buying used

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NeoWare c50 (Linux) with LTSP

2007-06-04 Thread Roy Souther
I have been buying second hand Neoware Capio and Eon's off eBay.com. I can usually get them for anywhere from $5 to $35. They work great with LTSP. I bought my first Neoware new for about $350 and will never do that again. Units on eBay.com often come with scratches and sometimes with cracked face

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Noise levels of thin clients vs. full blown PC workstations?

2007-05-07 Thread Roy Souther
What do you mean reconnect the fan? Do you normally run you power supply with out the fan connected? I have been thinking of testing the conversion of a PC to a terminal and maybe disconnecting the fans. I know the older Pentium CPU's can run okay like that and that a system with no drives should

[Ltsp-discuss] Noise levels of thin clients vs. full blown PC workstations?

2007-05-04 Thread Roy Souther
Has anyone done or found data about the noise levels of a computer lab with computers vs. LTSP terminals using fan less thin clients? I would very much like to see this data and pass it on to people. If it has not been done I think this is an important thing that should be done. Last year was the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firefox thinclients xul app

2007-01-29 Thread Roy Souther
I am running ViceWM in the Taber school with about 200 active sessions. Most terminals only have 32MB RAM. Users can open as many tabs as they like and the browsers run smooth and quick.. It may use more bandwidth but I have setup multi net so that no more then 15 terminals are on each Gbps NIC.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firefox thinclients xul app

2007-01-26 Thread Roy Souther
Does the app need to run on the thin client? As Xavier pointed out FireFox is a memory pig and I found that normal desktops running FireFox will kill a thin client that does not have a lot of RAM. I running ViceWM for all terminal desktops and it keeps the FireFox memory load on the server. If

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Evil I know

2007-01-22 Thread Roy Souther
If you want a great professional POS program that runs on Linux you should look at Quasar. http://linuxcanada.com/pos.shtml Better then starting your own and a lot less money the most. On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 14:11 -0600, Michael Collins wrote: I have a client that is in bed with this dos based

[Ltsp-discuss] USB keyboard mouse

2007-01-08 Thread Roy Souther
I have a few terminals where the users have fancy wireless keyboards and mice that connect using only one USB port. I cannot find any information about how to make a USB keyboard mouse work. I do know about the lts.conf option X_MOUSE_DEVICE = /dev/input/mice and this works for PS/2 KB's and

[Ltsp-discuss] Neoware TCs on Ebay and BIOS passwords

2007-01-03 Thread Roy Souther
I have bought a lot of Neoware Thin Clients off Ebay.com for anywhere from $3 up to $30 or so and recommend it to anyone wanting to build an LTSP network. All the EON and Capio systems I have tried come with PXE but you may have a hard time getting it turned on in the BIOS. They are also a great

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] suspend session

2006-12-28 Thread Roy Souther
http://www.silicontao.com/software/ViceWM/ViceWM.html On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 13:40 +0100, Udo Pütz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evan Ingram schrieb: Is there any way i can suspend a session and restart it again later and at a different location without losing

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [HeadsUp] Re: Anyone tried this thinclient?

2006-12-20 Thread Roy Souther
They are not back ordered anymore. I ordered four about ten days ago and they arrived this morning. Very cool. Boot with built-in PXE and on to my GDM login in about 30 seconds. Very nice. On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 20:44 +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: On 31/08/06, Peter Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Ltsp-discuss] Quad head rdesktop crap crap crap...

2006-12-15 Thread Roy Souther
If you have read any of my posts to the LTSP list in the last month or so you may have read that I have a 4 head terminal and that I have GDM login to Windows as an option of desktop. Well rdesktop or remote Windows sessions have a nasty size limit will not do 5120x1024 and cuts off almost one

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with RDP to Win 2000 Terminal Service

2006-12-14 Thread Roy Souther
for me. Some education sites use Flash but if too many people are using Flash then the entire school network slows down. I don't have a good solution for that yet. On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 09:28 +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: On 13/12/06, Roy Souther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This system

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [FOLLOW UP] Re: Anyone tried this thinclient?

2006-12-14 Thread Roy Souther
I just ordered four of these also. I am using some other embedded PXE systems and they did not show it at boot time but Shift+F10 gets me into the PXE BIOS setup. From there I can make PXE boot the default, enable or disable and turn on the PXE BIOS boot message. Can you please try Shift+F10 and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with RDP to Win 2000 Terminal Service

2006-12-13 Thread Roy Souther
I am running a Windows Terminal Server under a headless VMware (vmplayer) session on my Linux LTSP server. It runs great with eight people that use Windows and about another 20 that use the Linux desktop. My hardware is... 1 x Tyan Thunder K8SD Pro S2882-D EATX 2XS940 AMD-8131 8DDR Reg 4PCI-X

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [FOLLOW UP] Re: Anyone tried this thinclient?

2006-12-05 Thread Roy Souther
What would be the best way to buy a few of these? Are there any resellers in North America? The web site http://www.norhtec.com/ does not look like it is setup to take small orders and they seem to only want to deal in larger numbers. How did you get yours? On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 08:12 +0530,

[Ltsp-discuss] Quad head terminal

2006-12-04 Thread Roy Souther
It took some work but I finally have 4 monitors working on my terminal. Just wanted to share my findings with everyone. This setup uses the ATI Radeon 7000 with dual VGA outputs. I have two of these PCI video cards in my Pentium 200 terminal. Together the video cards have twice the RAM that the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Quad head terminal

2006-12-04 Thread Roy Souther
over a year ago. I am not even sure if the fan in the power supply is even turning any more. On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 19:09 +0100, Udo Pütz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roy Souther schrieb: It took some work but I finally have 4 monitors working on my terminal. Hi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] JackPC Thin Clients??

2006-11-23 Thread Roy Souther
I just read this PPT file. It is nothing but lies and false information. I question why any company would go to such an effort to do this. It's clear to me that these people are suffering from a Fatal Deception Error: ID10T On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 10:44 -0600, Petre Scheie wrote: jackpc

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox + Flash = the ultimate resource pig

2006-11-03 Thread Roy Souther
at 19:33 -0500, Gentgeen wrote: On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:42:30 -0700 Roy Souther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish I could lock it off so that I would not have to mess with plugins anymore. I am really going out on a limb here, since I have not tried it before, but what about making the root owned

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox + Flash = the ultimate resource pig

2006-11-02 Thread Roy Souther
to libflashplayer.so? It would be fairly easy to write a script that sets it up. And then just add it to /etc/skel for future users. Petre Roy Souther wrote: I have not had a chance to install Flashback yet and today the server came to almost a total stop because of Flash today. Now I see

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox + Flash = the ultimate resource pig

2006-11-01 Thread Roy Souther
of having a sym-link in a users how that needs to be owned by root to prevent the user from overwriting it. On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 09:19 -0700, Roy Souther wrote: I would like some ideas about what to do about this. I am running LTSP in a school of maybe 120 students and 60 terminals. At any

[Ltsp-discuss] Firefox + Flash = the ultimate resource pig

2006-10-30 Thread Roy Souther
I would like some ideas about what to do about this. I am running LTSP in a school of maybe 120 students and 60 terminals. At any given time there are between 20 to 50 people using the server and maybe half of them are on the Internet. The problem is web sites that use flash to show

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Root password or root privileges for X access

2006-10-05 Thread Roy Souther
I don't think you can set the root password, not like that. If you just want root access on the terminal add these lines to the default section of your /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf file SCREEN_01 = startx SCREEN_02 = shell Then on the terminal press CTRL+ALT+F2 to get a root shell, no

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Kill a terminal X server from LTSP

2006-09-28 Thread Roy Souther
Lars, where do you get the terminalname from? On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 17:04 +0200, Lars Madsen wrote: Philippe ENTZMANN : I wonder how to kill a X server on a terminal from the LTSP server. I have SSH access to the client. Is there a command to shutdown the whole X server ? a process to

[Ltsp-discuss] X socket file limit exceeded.

2006-09-19 Thread Roy Souther
I seem to have exceeded the limit of X sockets. On my LTSP server users connect to their desktops using a local VNC server session. The sockets files are found in /tmp/.X11-unix/. On my server they start at X0 and go all the way up to X99. When someone logs in they get a free socket and a

[Ltsp-discuss] SSH to terminals

2006-09-01 Thread Roy Souther
I see a lot of messages about how to SSH to a terminal so I though I would share what I have done. I needed a way to reboot or halt terminals from the server so I created this project that I call ltsp-remotectrl. Here is the deb file.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SSH to terminals

2006-09-01 Thread Roy Souther
I still need to SSH into the terminal. On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 17:03 +0200, Lars Madsen wrote: Roy Souther : I see a lot of messages about how to SSH to a terminal so I though I would share what I have done. I needed a way to reboot or halt terminals from the server so I created

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SSH to terminals

2006-09-01 Thread Roy Souther
So I go to try the ltspinfo program and found an interesting problem with it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ltspinfo --help Unknown option: help [EMAIL PROTECTED] man ltspinfo No manual entry for ltspinfo See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available. I also looked here

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] CUPS restrictions by location of terminals?

2006-08-31 Thread Roy Souther
another CUPS-backend that alters the selection but if the app just gets a list of printers by looking in the /etc/printcap.cups I don't think I will be able to hide any thing. On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 10:00 -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:35:43AM -0600, Roy Souther wrote: I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] CUPS restrictions by location of terminals?

2006-08-31 Thread Roy Souther
Thanks Scott Gideon, your suggestions should do exactly what I need. I am only trying to make it easier for the students and staff and I am not trying to increase security. By setting the default printer this way I should be able to make it much easier for people to print to the printer that

[Ltsp-discuss] What module for local SATA drive access?

2006-08-28 Thread Roy Souther
I need local HDD access for some of my terminals. I have them setup to load ide-disk and that works for IDE drives but not for SATA. What modules do I need to load to have local access to the SATA hard drives? I am using Kernel 2.4.26-ltsp-3 on the terminals. Royce Souther

[Ltsp-discuss] What is killing my bash scipt on the terminal?

2006-08-05 Thread Roy Souther
I am running LTSP 4.1.1. I have a simple bash script that runs on the terminals and waits for commands from the server. I can manually go to the terminal and run it locally and it works and stays running. I added a line to the end of /etc/rc.sysinit to start it at boot time and I log what it

[Ltsp-discuss] Replacing thin clients DiskOnChip.

2006-08-01 Thread Roy Souther
Does anyone have links on information about replacing the DiskOnChip modules with etherboot ROM's? I was given a bunch of old Citrix thin clients, most are Neoware. None of them have PXE so I am thinking the best would be to replace the DiskOnChips with a boot image from rom-o-matic.org. I

[Ltsp-discuss] Application suspend, force RAM to swap

2006-07-07 Thread Roy Souther
A few months ago I posted how I made an IceWM desktop session run under VNC to give people the ability to logout and keep their desktop running on the server so they can resume their session again later. This works great. I have it setup for a few teachers at the school but now I want to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Application suspend, force RAM to swap

2006-07-07 Thread Roy Souther
-07 at 10:55 -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote: On Fri, July 7, 2006 10:38 am, Roy Souther wrote: A few months ago I posted how I made an IceWM desktop session run under VNC to give people the ability to logout and keep their desktop running on the server so they can resume their session again later

[Ltsp-discuss] Fedora XDMCP on display :1 problem

2006-07-07 Thread Roy Souther
This is not an LTSP question. I don't use Fedora but I think many people here do. I need setup a system to connect one Fedora 5 system to a Fedora 4 system so that the user can press Ctrl+Alt+F7 or Ctrl+Alt+F8 to switch back and forth. On a normal Debian system all I need to do it run this

[Ltsp-discuss] rdesktop with GDM, by pass Win login?

2006-06-26 Thread Roy Souther
Has anyone been able to get rdesktop to by pass the Windows login by handing it user name and password? I want to run a mixed environment of Windows and Linux desktops. The Windows login does not handle logging in to other server OS's but GDM does. After a user logs in to GDM I don't want

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rdesktop with GDM, by pass Win login?

2006-06-26 Thread Roy Souther
Good to know, thank you very much. On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 19:50 +0200, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: Am Montag, den 26.06.2006, 11:23 -0500 schrieb Scott Balneaves: On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:42:50AM -0600, Roy Souther wrote: Has anyone been able to get rdesktop to by pass the Windows

[Ltsp-discuss] Problems printing from terminal

2006-05-02 Thread Roy Souther
I have a network running LTSP. One of the terminals is a LPT printer host with a Samsung 550N attached. The terminal is at a static IP address. For months now it has been working fine using lprng CUPS. The lprng was setup to print to lpd://192.168.40.5:9100 and CUPS was set to use the lprng

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Xinerama on dual-head client (slightly OT)

2006-04-10 Thread Roy Souther
I don't see your second video card. I see you have the Radeon 7000 card. Is this with dual VGA ports? I have my LTSP client working with the ATI Radeon 7000 PCI card with dual VGA ports. If that is what you have let me know I will post my xorg.conf that works. On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 09:29

[Ltsp-discuss] How to use any device on a remote thin client.

2006-04-04 Thread Roy Souther
I keep reading about special devices that are needed on the thin client. Currently if you need a special device on the thin client it ends up being that you have an app running on the client side. Things like smbfs to use USB memory sticks. I think that the be-all-end-all would be a kernel

[Ltsp-discuss] Sleep on LAN or Ether-halt?

2006-03-31 Thread Roy Souther
Has anyone written a program to cause a system to sleep/halt/reboot by sending it a TCP or UDP command? I would like it to be along the same lines as ether-wake, a simple C or C++ program that is small and does not use a lot of libraries. I need this for my terminal network. I have been using

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem with printing on a remote printer

2006-03-23 Thread Roy Souther
So Samba is serving connection to these printers? (Rhetorical question) This is not an LTSP problem. You may find people here that can help but you should ask this question on a Samba list or web forum. On the Samba server in the PRINT$ directory, have you uploaded the printer drivers? Can

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Dual Monitor + Dual Cards on LTSP client

2006-03-21 Thread Roy Souther
Fix your config entry in your lts.conf [ws001.03212006] XF86CONFIG_FILE = xorg.xinerama.conf I would not set [Default] to use the custom xinerama conf. I would make a section for [ws001.03212006] that sets the XF86CONFIG_FILE. I would not name the config file the same as the terminal. It

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Xinerama working on LTSP client

2006-03-18 Thread Roy Souther
I thought of Knoppix but it uses XFree86 and LTSP uses Xorg. Suse 10 uses Xorg. On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 10:03 +1030, Patrick Noffke wrote: Roy Souther wrote: I finally got Xinerama working on my LTSP client. It was all a frequency problem. To make it work I had to install a hard drive

[Ltsp-discuss] Xinerama working on LTSP client

2006-03-17 Thread Roy Souther
I finally got Xinerama working on my LTSP client. It was all a frequency problem. To make it work I had to install a hard drive and install Suse 10, use Suse to find the frequency for each LCD video card one at a time and then copy the frequency settings (ModeLine) in to my custom xorg.conf

[Ltsp-discuss] Funny Xinerama problem

2006-03-10 Thread Roy Souther
Pentium 160 MHz with 48MB RAM. Two video cards and two big LCD monitors. If I put one card in, connect it to one of the LCD's and let LTSP auto configure the display I get 1024x768. If I set the ModeLine and display size I can get 1280x1024. I do the same thing with the other video card and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Many GDM messages again

2006-03-09 Thread Roy Souther
Here is an idea of how to find the problem. Find your gdm and move it to gdm.bin and create a bash script in it's place that dumps the env to a new log file alone with the parent PID that called gdm. On my system this would be like this... [EMAIL PROTECTED] which gdm /usr/bin/gdm [EMAIL

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Many GDM messages again

2006-03-09 Thread Roy Souther
Oops. Replace this line in the script echo Parent PID of the app that is calling GDM = $LOG_FILE with echo Parent PID of the app that is calling GDM = $PARENT_PID $LOG_FILE Then when you have the parent PID go see what program that is. On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 09:28 -0700, Roy Souther

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Persistant desktop and auto log out screen saver with VNC + IceWM = ViceWM

2006-03-04 Thread Roy Souther
http://www.silicontao.com/software/ViceWM/ On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 09:19 +0100, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: Am Freitag, den 03.03.2006, 14:59 -0700 schrieb Roy Souther: For a log time now I have been wanting any way to log out the desktop session if the user is not active

[Ltsp-discuss] Persistant desktop and auto log out screen saver with VNC + IceWM = ViceWM

2006-03-03 Thread Roy Souther
For a log time now I have been wanting any way to log out the desktop session if the user is not active at the desktop. After asking on this list and looking around on Google for a very long time I decided to write my own. Auto log out This was easy. xscreensaver has a few screen savers that

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with FreeNX

2006-03-01 Thread Roy Souther
I was planning on using FreeNX on an LTSP network in a school that I setup. The reason was that normal old XDMCP that is the back bone of using a remote desktop with LTSP uses a lot of bandwidth when you have an entire school of terminals running. I decided not to use FreeNX because of two

[Ltsp-discuss] LILO etherboot example wanted

2006-02-03 Thread Roy Souther
Does anyone have an example of how to configure LILO to boot from an etherboot image? I am sure I could google it but this does not seem to be a topic that has been posted to this list before and like many other LTSP users come searching this list before we go to google. signature.asc

[Ltsp-discuss] Batch creation of many user accounts in a large network.

2006-02-03 Thread Roy Souther
I am looking for a solution to adding large numbers of users in a batch mode. My client is a school and is using WebMin to manage user accounts on the server. They like it because it is very easy to use. I like it because it is standard across all versions of Linux. The problem is the

[Ltsp-discuss] Hotplug events sent to server?

2006-02-03 Thread Roy Souther
Is there an easy way to send hotplug events to the server from terminals? I have everyone using USB memory sticks and I would like to make an icon popup on the desktop when they insert the USB stick and then remove the icon when they unplug it.I am using a desktop that has very simple scripts

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] limiting website useage

2006-02-01 Thread Roy Souther
I set up a network that would only allow people to access a short list of sites. I did this by removing the DNS from the DHCPD so that no client could resolve any URL. Then I statically added the IP addresses and the URL's to the /etc/hosts file. That is the easiest way to do it. It is not a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] limiting website useage

2006-02-01 Thread Roy Souther
this is ltsp, is there a way ot have a hosts file for each workstation, or will they all nessisarily run off the central /etc/hosts? Roy Souther wrote: I set up a network that would only allow people to access a short list of sites. I did this by removing the DNS from

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB Printer Not Working

2006-01-31 Thread Roy Souther
The HOTPLUG is a problem, you do need that turned on. I turned HOTPLUG on in my default section and it does not hurt any system that does not have a printer. You have the right kernel, 2.4 is the one I am using. It is very stable and works with all the USB devices I have tried. What about

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB Printer Not Working

2006-01-30 Thread Roy Souther
I have 4 USB printers working on one LTSP server and lts.conf looks like this ...snip [lablj0] PRINTER_0_TYPE = U PRINTER_0_DEVICE = /dev/usb/lp0 [lablj1] PRINTER_0_TYPE = U PRINTER_0_DEVICE = /dev/usb/lp0 [rm14hp] PRINTER_0_TYPE = U PRINTER_0_DEVICE = /dev/usb/lp0 [rm13hp]

[Ltsp-discuss] Server load logging?

2006-01-27 Thread Roy Souther
I need a simple way to help me find bottle necks on LTSP servers. I have found programs that track CPU or RAM or disk or network loads but nothing that will track all of them and help me to see what I need to invest more money in. If someone says to me, My desktop was slow for a few minutes.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Help me to reduce windows licences cost by implementing LTSP

2006-01-27 Thread Roy Souther
I have a client in the same situation and I will get to how I set that network up in just a bit. First I would like to suggest that if your Delphi program runs under Wine then you should consider only running Linux servers and run the program from Wine. Wine http://www.winehq.com is up to

[Ltsp-discuss] Content filtering is big problem for LTSP.

2006-01-24 Thread Roy Souther
I am running in to big problems with this. Basically my clients like LTSP but the problem it causes with content filtering is a deal killer. My clients run private schools. For years they have been using legacy servers with commercial content filtering. The thing with content filtering at

[Ltsp-discuss] Content filtering from LTSP server

2006-01-21 Thread Roy Souther
I have a network with LTSP serving Linux desktops. The network is in a school that uses IPCop and URLFilter to block porn and other such junk. What is the best way to run content filtering with an LTSP server? Should I move the URLFilter to the server or what? Every solution I can think of

[Ltsp-discuss] Radical mouse with no wheel and kernel 2.4

2006-01-17 Thread Roy Souther
If I use a non-wheel mouse with kernel 2.4 the mouse jumps all over the screen and the terminal is not usable. The only solution is to have kernel 2.6 loaded on systems with non-wheel mice. I cannot find any setting that I could but in lts.conf that would fix this. I want to use kernel 2.4 on

[Ltsp-discuss] ltsp virtual firewall wanted. IPcop or Smoothwall as thin client

2005-12-16 Thread Roy Souther
Has anyone thought of making a special root directory that could host an IPcop or Smoothwall firewall? The smallest hard drive I can buy is 20GB. A waist when IPcop only uses maybe 2GB of that. I don't see why I need to run a hard drive at all with all the features of an LTSP client. I know

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP multi NIC boot floppy or CD

2005-12-13 Thread Roy Souther
Has anyone made a boot floppy or CD that will automatically detect any number of NIC's and start booting the system as an LTSP client? I am using ltsp-partimage to install WinXP images on some Dell systems and all works great except that some of them have BCM4400 NIC's that need the b44

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] odd dhcp3 issue

2005-11-30 Thread Roy Souther
Your file has a simple syntax error. I do it all the time. Check your file over very closely and make sure that you have the same number of { as } On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 14:11 -0500, Joe Auerbach wrote: Here's an odd issue. I just got 2 new thin clients. I jumped into the dhcp.conf file

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] odd dhcp3 issue

2005-11-30 Thread Roy Souther
, Joe Auerbach wrote: Roy Souther wrote: Your file has a simple syntax error. I do it all the time. Check your file over very closely and make sure that you have the same number of { as } hmm . . . I saw an instance where it was off: subnet 100.100.100.0

[Ltsp-discuss] Automatic logout

2005-11-29 Thread Roy Souther
I have been looking but have not found any simple way to do automatic logout. I am running LTSP in a school and students will often just walk away from their session. I would like some simple way to automatically logout inactive users ether by login name, group ID or MAC address. I don't

[Ltsp-discuss] ltsp-partimage

2005-11-24 Thread Roy Souther
This project lets network administrators save and restore partition images using partimage by booting an LTSP client on the network. The simplified interface makes it easy to install images onto many systems. Designed for large networks of identical hardware workstations and will reproduce cloned

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] run any application only once

2005-11-16 Thread Roy Souther
Off the top of my head this would be a simple bash script that would call the app. Could look like this. This is my quick idea. I have not tested it. Could use some work. = START BASH SCRIPT = #!/bin/bash OUR_PID=$$ # Get the basename of the program to run APP_NAME=$0

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] run any application only once

2005-11-10 Thread Roy Souther
SOMEVAR remains empty because groupadd does print any text to the STDOUT stream. It does return an error code like so groupadd g_$1 ERROR_CODE=$? if [ $ERROR_CODE -eq 0 ]; then echo It worked else echo Ooops, It failed fi On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 11:38 +0100, Verner Kjrsgaard wrote: Hi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] run any application only once

2005-11-09 Thread Roy Souther
Off the top of my head this would be a simple bash script that would call the app. Could look like this. This is my quick idea. I have not tested it. Could use some work. = START BASH SCRIPT = #!/bin/bash OUR_PID=$$ # Get the basename of the program to run APP_NAME=$0

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] JackPC thin Clients

2005-11-05 Thread Roy Souther
Are you building this system from scratch as in designing the main board and everything? That seems like a lot of work. It could be great if you do find the funding. On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 12:45 +0100, Eckhard Jokisch wrote: Alvin Starr wrote It would be a chunk of work but creating an

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Terminal printers with local ppf not local cups.

2005-11-02 Thread Roy Souther
I tried and could not find any thing that indicated that an LTPS terminal was sharing it's printer using any protocol. From what you are saying, the printer should be an SMB shared printer and that Samba is running on the terminal. I will look at that more, maybe I had the configuration wrong

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LocalMedia, why Samba, why not sshfs?

2005-11-01 Thread Roy Souther
I would really like to see any scripts or notes you have for using sshfs. I cannot wait for ltpsfs. I read the ltsp printing documentation and found how the module is loaded but could not find anything about what runs on the terminal to share the device or how the server can send print jobs

[Ltsp-discuss] LocalMedia, why Samba, why not sshfs?

2005-10-31 Thread Roy Souther
I am setting up a network with about 100 terminals in a school of about 400 students. I am going to try to setup the terminals to use USB memory sticks as a local media. As I read the LocalMedia page http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LocalMedia and how it describes using Samba I have to

[Ltsp-discuss] Terminal printers with local ppf not local cups.

2005-10-31 Thread Roy Souther
I have been looking at running printers from the terminals. I see a lot of people setting up cups on the terminals to run a cups server. I chose to use ppf on my terminals because it is very small and lets me set the desktop server as the cups server. I think cups is overkill for the

[Ltsp-discuss] 3c900b-tpo etherboot

2005-10-17 Thread Roy Souther
I found a gold mine of old 3c900b-tpo's. I have been trying to program them with etherboot roms but with no luck. I can get them to boo but DHCP fails. The Ken Yap posted to the etherboot list and says the cards are 10Mbps and the etherboot is not work fixing for such an old card. The floppy

[Ltsp-discuss] StarTech ST100SW with bootrom, etherboot or RPL?

2005-10-14 Thread Roy Souther
I am looking at making a large purchase of NIC's. I am looking at the StarTech ST100SW that has a socket for a BOOTROM and wake on LAN. These cards are 10/100 PCI RTL8139's and only $10 each. I like RTL and have never had any problems with them. My question is about the RPL. The StarTech.com

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] StarTech ST100SW with bootrom, etherboot or RPL?

2005-10-14 Thread Roy Souther
Novell. One of that can be made to work with Linux, I don't recall which one. My advice is to stick with Etherboot or PXE. Both of those work great with Linux and LTSP. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Roy Souther wrote: I am looking at making a large purchase of NIC's. I

[Ltsp-discuss] Is LSTP faster with X.org 6.8.0 XDamage

2004-09-08 Thread Roy Souther
using the X11R6.8.0 from X.org and if they find any speed improvements. Roy Souther www.SiliconTao.com Let Open Source help your business move beyond. For security this message is digitally authenticated by GnuPG. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

[Ltsp-discuss] X compression revisited

2004-09-01 Thread Roy Souther
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[Ltsp-discuss] Knoppix 3.6 with working FreeNX server is out.

2004-08-26 Thread Roy Souther
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[Ltsp-discuss] Used thin client terminals?

2003-03-14 Thread Roy Souther
$200. But they are out of business. Where can I get a few of those? Where could I get some used terminals that work with LTSP? Roy Souther www.SiliconTao.com Changing the way people do business. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[Ltsp-discuss] Intel eepro config utility?

2003-03-10 Thread Roy Souther
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Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 3c59x bootrom question.

2003-03-09 Thread Roy Souther
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[Ltsp-discuss] 3c59x bootrom question.

2003-03-08 Thread Roy Souther
I wanted to program a bootrom for a 3c59x card but the darn thing has a socket for a 30 pin ROM chip. Does it need a 30 pin ROM chip or can I use a standard 28 pin? If I can use a 28 pin chip does pin 1 go in the pin 1 location? Roy Souther www.SiliconTao.com Changing the way people do

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 3c59x bootrom question.

2003-03-08 Thread Roy Souther
not sure about the 3com, whether that will allow it, but it's worth a try. Take a look at: http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/eproms.txt There's a crude drawing of how a 28-pin chip fits in a 32-pin socket. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 8 Mar 2003, Roy Souther wrote: I wanted

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 3c59x bootrom question.

2003-03-08 Thread Roy Souther
] On 8 Mar 2003, Roy Souther wrote: I wanted to program a bootrom for a 3c59x card but the darn thing has a socket for a 30 pin ROM chip. Does it need a 30 pin ROM chip or can I use a standard 28 pin? If I can use a 28 pin chip does pin 1 go in the pin 1 location? Roy

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 3c59x bootrom question.

2003-03-08 Thread Roy Souther
Forget it. It is a 32 pin socket. The guy I have working for me miss counted, twice. Roy Souther www.SiliconTao.com Changing the way people do business. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[Ltsp-discuss] Automatic MAC configuration?

2003-02-18 Thread Roy Souther
for each person. And before you ask, yes I know this is a security risk. Roy Souther www.SiliconTao.com Changing the way people do business. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Automatic MAC configuration?

2003-02-18 Thread Roy Souther
and add the IP to the /etc/hosts file. LTSP does not seem to do this and dhcpd does not. On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 10:07, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote: Roy, where is the problem? This is precisely what dhcpd does - serves addresses from the range you define. On 18 Feb 2003, Roy Souther wrote: Has anyone

[Ltsp-discuss] Is there a HOL, Halt-On-LAN program?

2003-02-18 Thread Roy Souther
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