Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Why LDM?

2011-08-29 Thread Scott Balneaves
On 11-08-29 10:11 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: This may seem a bit foolish question, but I dare asking it anyway: Why do you use LDM? Does it have any influence on the functionality of LTSP? Wouldn't it be ok to use KDM or whatever to let the folks log in? I ask because on our current

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] zentyal and ltsp

2011-04-04 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 10:46:45AM -0400, Andy Graybeal wrote: Maybe a simpler question would be how to integrate LDAP with LTSP. If Zentyal is going to be the LDAP server, how do I get it to integrate with LTSP? If your LTSP server is configured for LDAP, the clients will be able to log

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] No matter what lts.conf says, clients starts always ldm on screen 7

2010-05-21 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:05:02PM +0200, Krzysztof Paliga wrote: Hi, the problem is pretty exactly what title says. From one day, to another, client started to ignore which screen.d script to start. No matter what lts.conf says, always ldm on screen 7 ost being started. Any

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem with a LDAP account

2010-05-19 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:35:32PM +0200, Richard wrote: Hi, I've two servers a FS/LDAP server (debian Lenny) and a LTSP server (ubuntu 10.04). This architecture works well with 8.04 LTSP server. Since I've made a 10.04 LTSP server, I can log in myself with a local user on a thin-client

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox as localapps

2010-05-18 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 05:03:44PM +0200, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list, - when FF is running as a localapps and, say, 20 students are running FF from their TC, how many (if any) instances in the servers ps/top should I see? If it's running as a localapp, none :) Cheers, Scott --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LocalDev on /tmp/.(user)-ltspfs/ ? Why not on /media/(user) ?

2010-05-17 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 03:05:39PM -0300, Osvaldo Filho wrote: Ubuntu 10.04 64bit for clients 32 bits LocalDev on /tmp/.(user)-ltspfs/ ? Why not on /media/(user) ? It first mounts to /tmp/..., then bindmounts it to /media, or at least it should. Is it not doing it for you? Scott --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin clients client's devices

2010-04-20 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 09:40:57AM +0100, Salvatore De Paolis wrote: Hi all, I'm curious about the thin client's solution and i'll like to know more about it. Let's say i have a server and few netbook clients. Such clients have SD card support for authentication, is this scenario possible and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] possible errors in manual concerning xrandr parameters

2010-04-06 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:30:00PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 05:28:38PM -0500, P. Scott DeVos wrote: In the pdf version of the LTSP Manual on sourceforge, the xrandr parameters are listed as XRANDR_OUTPUT_01 ... XRANDR_OUTPUT_09 etc. Nothing was

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Disabling LDM Session Menu

2010-03-23 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:45:10PM -0700, Leon Hauck wrote: Is there an easy way to disable the Select Session menu in LDM, or an easy way to override what it populated in it? We're getting ready to roll out an LTSP based computer lab and want to force everyone into one type of session.

[Ltsp-discuss] 10 Years....

2010-03-17 Thread Scott Balneaves
Just thought people might be interested... Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Legal Aid Manitoba's first LTSP deployment. Since March 17, 2000, Legal Aid's been running Linux on the desktop via LTSP. I started contributing to LTSP during the January/February timeframe. So it's also roughly

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] CD/DVD Burner

2010-03-12 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:54:14AM +0100, Frank Schöttler wrote: Hi, ist it possible to use a CD/DVD Burner on a thinclient?? If yes - tell me more Possibly, if you install burner apps as a localapp, but I don't think anyone's tried it. Without localapps, no. Scott -- Scott L.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Unmount devices in LTSP 5

2010-03-11 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:17:10AM -0700, Scott Derrick wrote: Scott, I'm not disagreeing, with how it works. There many linux distros that do exactly what ltsp is doing, by by caching write data to removable devices. I also think its teh right thing to do by default. What I meant by

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Unmount devices in LTSP 5

2010-03-10 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:25:22AM -0800, Jordan Erickson wrote: I know this has probably been beaten into the ground, but is there a way that an 'unmount' option could be made for ltsp devices? Yes! All someone has to do is write it. :) Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | No furniture so

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Unmount devices in LTSP 5

2010-03-10 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 03:51:57PM -0700, Scott Derrick wrote: While it may be safe, its completely contrary to expected behavior. Incorrect. It's completely in line with expected behaviour. Quite a lot of people who use LTSP are kids in classrooms. Do 7 year olds normally right click and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP server poisoning to chroot

2010-02-19 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 09:50:09AM -0600, Antoine Rodriguez wrote: Taking example my case : a student must never access to the teachers tools he does not even has to know what's in the teacher part. LTSP has been partially made for school and have a very low TCO and ROI goal ..

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sound stuffer

2010-02-16 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 01:22:31PM -0500, joe auerbach wrote: On a karmic machine (running twinkle) I'm getting a sound stutter. I'm thinking that the problem might be attached to pulseaudio (since it has a lot of stutter issues) Not aware of any stuttering issues with Pulse. Biggest

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Boot menu?

2010-02-05 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:14:27PM +, Pedro G. Rodrigues wrote: Ok, it seems everybody is too busy to answer... I understand. It also may be that nobody knows the answer. It may also be that people are just too busy to respond. My question is this: if I want a user to be able to choose

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello,

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:16:14PM +0100, gmintoff wrote: Hello, Please note that this email address is no longer in use. Please forward any correspondence to t...@winssystems.com We need to drop this email from the mailing list. Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | When one burns one's

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops vs LTSP?

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 08:24:34PM -0800, Nicholas Metsovon wrote: I'm not a big fan of RedHat, but they seem to have far greater resources than most Linux projects. I'm kind of curious if LTSP can benefit from any of this, and how it will affect LTSP in the long term. Myself, personally

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Posting a Question

2009-12-25 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:17:34AM -0500, Anu wrote: Hello, I tried to post a question regarding a problem I have been trying to solve. Twice I had to register, but I could not see my question posted. (1) Is this discussion forum real...? Yes. (2) If it is real, why don't I get a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Configuration Procedure

2009-12-25 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 03:19:22PM -0500, Anu wrote: Is there a place where I can find - Installation Requirements (LTSP and other services) listed in order - Configuration - How to test (any tools for testing the configuration etc.) Upstream documentation can be found, as per usual, on

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RAM requirements

2009-12-16 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 02:33:39PM +, Evan Ingram wrote: hi i've seen various numbers quoted for ram requirements on an ltsp server; ranging from 256Mb + 32Mb per client to 1024Mb + 64Mb per client. what are peoples findings in the real world? i need to spec up a server for a school

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RAM requirements

2009-12-16 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:44:45AM -0500, Stéphane Graber wrote: Scott Balneaves wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 02:33:39PM +, Evan Ingram wrote: hi i've seen various numbers quoted for ram requirements on an ltsp server; ranging from 256Mb + 32Mb per client to 1024Mb + 64Mb per

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Booting LTSP 4.2 on CentOS 5.4

2009-12-14 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:27:43AM -0500, Anu wrote: Hello Rob, test thin-client on a Linux machine. I had some problems with LTSP5 and tried to get answers. None of my questions were answered. Interesting, where did you ask them, on the K12LTSP mailing list, or here? Try asking them

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Network traffic?

2009-11-15 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 06:25:43PM +0100, Tobias Gruetzmacher wrote: And if network traffic is a problem, has anyone considered some measures to reduce the traffic? That was one of the reasons we moved to squashfs/nbd. I have two ideas to reduce the traffic. One is for filesystem traffic:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5 on CentOS 5.3

2009-10-20 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 03:00:29PM -0700, Jim Kusznir wrote: Please consider supporting LTSP 5 on CentOS or reviving the LTSP4.2 method of doing things! All that's required for LTSP5 support on CentOS is for someone from the CentOS developer community to step forward and help with a port.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slow FireFox Solutions?

2009-10-08 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 12:57:37PM -0400, Anthony Luscre wrote: My Server Hardware is dual Quad core processors with 8 to 13 Gig of RAM. Clients are diskless Dell GX-240's with 128 to 256 MB of RAM You haven't really given us enough information to diagnose. When you say Slow firefox, do you

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Printing from Local apps

2009-09-28 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 03:04:01PM +0300, Asmo Koskinen wrote: Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: I'll do later tonight yet another howto for this - UbuntuLTSP's does not have one. It's here - someone can once again correct my finglish.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Printing from Local apps

2009-09-28 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 05:25:37PM +0300, Asmo Koskinen wrote: 2) Become either an LTSP or Edubuntu developer/member, or ideally, both. Really - I'm not a developer... ;-) Neither am I. I just play one on TV. Seriously, though, you don't have to actually DEVELOP CODE to be a developer of

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slow Right Click in Firefox

2009-09-25 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:06:51PM +0200, Stefan Below wrote: I know that this discussion is coming up every few month, but the problem is that you need for ltsp5 much stronger hardware to get the same user experience than with ltsp4 due to the fact that ltsp5 is using the standard

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slow Right Click in Firefox

2009-09-25 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 01:57:12PM -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:06:51PM +0200, Stefan Below wrote: Snip rant Ok, as a follow-up to this, I just had a palaver with otavio, Gadi, johnny, alkisg, et al in #ltsp. Otavio's posted some of his goodies (not in any working

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on low-resource clients.

2009-09-25 Thread Scott Balneaves
Ok, lets get this party started. /me makes mad beats and hip-hop dance moves. Here are 3 possible ways of making LTSP work better on lower end hardware. All of these are solutions that have been bandied about in the past... 1) Come up with a set of Tweaks for big distros that reduces their

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slow Right Click in Firefox

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:55:03PM -0300, Osvaldo Filho wrote: Any one has solved this problem? With NX (FreeNX) this not occurs! https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxcb/+bug/277069 Please install Stephane's patch from his ppa. Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | The point is, not

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Debugging freezing ltsp terminals

2009-09-01 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:06:47PM +0300, Veli-Matti Lintu wrote: After nothing else seemed to work, I started debugging the crashes using kernel serial console and finally got some results. As this is probably something that also others could use, I wrote a blog entry about it:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Simultaneous running of programs on server and client

2009-08-18 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:34:47PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: and then there's firefox and a handful of other widely used applications (i think gnome doesn't work so well) where that just plain doesn't work. yes, that's not how it should be but that's the sad reality of many applications.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] complete freeze of a geode client (thincan DBE61)

2009-07-24 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:36:35AM +0200, Xavier Brochard wrote: The chroot is up to date (last lenny packages), geode driver is the last one fom backports.org (xserver-xorg-video-geode 2.11.1-1~bpo50+1), the geode-dbg package is also installed. From what I've seen/heard, most Geode problems

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] XFCe and Thunar: Usb local devices

2009-07-22 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:19:29AM -0300, Osvaldo Filho wrote: Is it possible with XFCe and Thunar -Debian Lenny - we have local devices in the same way i have with ubuntu (icons on desktop)? IIRC, Gnome was patched specifically to watch for the LTSP mounts in /media and pop them up. KDE,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Reducing boot time

2009-07-21 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 02:45:54PM +0100, Phil Davey wrote: On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, asmo.koski...@arkki.info wrote: LTSP 5 in Ubuntu takes some time to boot, because it gather all the information about thin client, then configure X on the fly and everything else, too. I'm just starting to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] youtube with mplayer plugin -- sound works!

2009-07-09 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:13:59PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: snip Install the greasemonkey extension for firefox/iceweasel, and then install the HQTube script. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24999 I tried this last night, works great. As well, (for the purposes of posterity) someone

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp-xorg.conf - which script generates it?

2009-05-12 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:39:51PM -0400, Gideon Romm wrote: Again, sorry that the docs are lagging a bit. I hope this helps add context. And, if any of you are interested in documenting things, we would certainly welcome the help and we would gladly help proof for accuracy. I'll try and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Shutdown Of Intel D945GCLF2 Workstations From LDM

2009-05-07 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:25:49AM -0700, syn wrote: poweroff -f forces halt to run, which isn't the cleanest way to shut things down. -f might be related to an issue lns noticed with thin clients not being able to power back up after shutdown (that has yet to be completely verified). poweroff

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Shutdown Of Intel D945GCLF2 Workstations From LDM

2009-05-07 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:48:02PM -0400, Gideon Romm wrote: I propose we call a shell script of our own... Sounds cool to me. I propose we go for a beer. All in favour? Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | When one burns one's bridges, Systems Department | what a very nice fire it makes. Legal

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how to mount external hard drives? + log problem? - LTSP 5 on Ubuntu 8.04

2009-04-29 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:21:55PM -0400, Dan Maranville wrote: Gotta love it that Long Term Support. Trust me it will not be the last time you curse it. /rant I'm really unsure as to why Ubuntu gets all this hate directed against them because they don't backport new features from more current

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how to mount external hard drives? + log problem? - LTSP 5 on Ubuntu 8.04

2009-04-29 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:22:22PM -0400, Dan Maranville wrote: It is because they recommend you install the latest non-lts to see if your problems are fixed. Period. Well, that's a valid request to see if the issues been fixed in newer versions. Either: 1) It DOES work in newer versions, and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Single user account and pam mount

2009-04-28 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:03:52PM -0700, Jordan Erickson wrote: ... it shouldn't be shunned, it should be explored, developed and secured appropriately. There are many, many, MANY problems with this idea: 1) Most programs: gnome, firefox, openoffice.org, etc., all have configs that they

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Is it time for LTSP-lite?

2009-02-26 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:48:15PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: snip ... On the other cards, I was given a terrible screen resolution (800x600 or less on my 18 lcd). And this backs up my point, to a certain extent. When I started using LTSP back in late 1999, 800x600 was the good resolution,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Is it time for LTSP-lite?

2009-02-25 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:52:39PM -0800, john wrote: Hi all, One of the reasons I originally found LTSP compelling was the modest specs required of the thin clients. Lately I've been feeling like my flavor of Linux/LTSP (ubuntu) has entered the same kind of systems requirement arms-race

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] OFF TOPIC - I need a strange help...

2009-02-24 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 08:39:00AM -0700, David L. Willson wrote: # pound, number, hash I'll hate myself for this later, but I always like to call it an octothorpe. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-oct1.htm Just 'cuz I like how that sounds. Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | Nothing

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Java still not fast enough for us

2009-02-17 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 06:42:05PM +0100, Simon Schmidig wrote: Le dimanche 08 février 2009 à 09:08 -0600, Scott Balneaves a écrit : You still haven't tried the most important test. Take another full workstation, and log in. Then ssh -X ltspserver javaapp which starts the java app

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Java still not fast enough for us

2009-02-08 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 03:09:36PM -0800, Nicholas Metsovon wrote: --- On Fri, 2/6/09, SZABO Zsolt sz...@mm.bme.hu wrote: On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Scott Balneaves wrote: If, on the other hand (and I suspect this is the case) it's just as slow as an LTSP workstation, then it's

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Java still not fast enough for us

2009-02-06 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:35:24AM -0700, David Burgess wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Michael Collins linuxl...@gmail.com wrote: These hardly seem like ltsp issues. Java and flash work much slower on ltsp in some cases than on a standalone workstation. To me that's an ltsp issue.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives are visible to everyone

2009-02-02 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:38:19AM -0600, John Hansen wrote: We recently upgraded to Hardy, and after updating the chroot, USB drives are mounting successfully. However, now anyone logged onto a thin client can see other users USB sticks mounted on their desktops. Only the user of that USB

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB flash drives are visible to everyone

2009-02-02 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 12:54:52PM -0700, David Burgess wrote: I'm sure there are other solutions, but mine has been to change the default umask to something like 007 and then if I want user tina to be able to edit files from joe, I just adduser tina joe, then tina can edit joe's files. The

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] one user can't log in - LTSP 5 on Debian Lenny

2009-01-06 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:44:33AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: Is it possible that the user's screen resolution settings are causing this? It's set to 1280x1024, but I didn't verify that the thin client (an old P3) can handle that. If they've hard-set this though the gnome Screen Resolution

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ltsp 5 files on Windows XP

2008-12-18 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:11:11PM +0530, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: Hi The situation is like this. A guy who was a techie at Microsoft wants to have RDP from thin clients without the license restrictions. Although, by using LTSP thin clients for access, he won't have to buy the client side of

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] opensuse 11 ltsp 5 usb cdrom not working

2008-12-09 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 09:40:08AM +0200, Asmo Koskinen wrote: Neil White kirjoitti: On my thin clients, when I plug in a USB CDRW, it doesn't popup on the screen. Same here, this is Ubuntu 8.04.1. USB stick and digital camera works, but USB CD-RW only for reading. If it reads, then

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Power Management for individual clients [*SOLVED*]

2008-12-02 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:33:29PM +0200, Anton Vaaranmaa wrote: Ok, that seamed to be the problem and now it is solved! Thank you! Funny that the the documents¹ I have been reading do not mention that the full path is needed. I assumed that custom rcfiles are specified just as custom kernel

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [EMAIL PROTECTED] on LTSP 5 (Ubuntu 8.04)

2008-11-15 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:14:55AM -0800, K Singleton wrote: I'm running 7.10 Edubuntu with diskless workstations. I'm having trouble getting flashplayer to work in Firefox. I tried a re-install of mozilla but without success. I'd appreciate some help. You haven't said exactly what the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 2 usb printers on thin client

2008-11-14 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:00:04AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I need to attach 2 usb printers to a single thin client. I know I can specify PRINTER_0_DEVICE and PRINTER_1_DEVICE in lts.conf. But how does the thin client not get confused between the two printers? How do I guarantee that, for

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 Ubuntu and Server hardening

2008-10-16 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 01:51:45PM -0600, David Burgess wrote: I'm not criticising the ltsp team. I love what they provide. And I'm not asking anybody--I hope--to change the way your ssh server or ltsp server operates. I simply think it would be a boon to the project to remove some of the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] cdpinger segfault problem?

2008-09-16 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 02:57:31PM +0430, ali rostai wrote: hello to all ltsp community, i get this error in client startup process cdpinger [23445]: segfault ... i have googled it and it seems to be a bug in ltspfs. but there is no suggestion how to solve this problem. what is really

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] font size at client

2008-09-09 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:16:55PM +0200, stephan wrote: Hi, I've set up an ltsp server. Everything works ok, but the font size is so small on the client that I can hardly read it. Maybe this is connected You haven't said what version of LTSP. I'm assuming LTSP5 USE_XFS = Y Unless

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] recent experience

2008-09-05 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 05:55:26PM +0100, Garry Saddington wrote: snip OK, so I've got (so far) 90 students / 3 servers = 30 students a server. 8000M - 512M(for the server bits) / 30 = ~250M per student, ram requirements. So, lets go forward with these rough calculations. log on times in the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] lts.conf and dhcpd.conf files on Hardy

2008-09-05 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:18:08AM -0400, Gideon Romm wrote: Guys- That doesn't work, because tftpd runs in a chroot'd environment. No symlinks allowed (you kinda would break the security that way). That's why it is not in /etc/ltsp (which would be logical). In about 5 minutes I know

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] lts.conf and dhcpd.conf files on Hardy

2008-09-05 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:57:36AM -0400, Gideon Romm wrote: Simply symlinking it in the way you do has the only convenience of not having to type or remember the path to tftpboot. :) Agreed. Cheers, Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | There are many causes I am prepared to die for, Systems

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] lts.conf and dhcpd.conf files on Hardy

2008-09-04 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:30:47AM -0700, Jordan Erickson wrote: Not to drag out the conversation, but organizing LTSP specific configuration files into /etc/ltsp != dumping them into a root directory (such as /etc). The problem with this (unfortunately) is the nature of the chroot itself.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] lts.conf and dhcpd.conf files on Hardy

2008-09-04 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:41:00PM -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:30:47AM -0700, Jordan Erickson wrote: Until then, if someone would like to try a ln -s /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf /etc/ltsp/lts.conf, and see if that brings the desired result, it might be a nice

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] again: deleting of swap files

2008-09-03 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:32:17PM +0200, Helmut Lichtenberg wrote: Hi, I know, there has been a thread discussing this problem, but I didn't see any solution. Well, I suppose the thing to do would be to quantify WHY they're not being deleted automatically. If you look at /usr/sbin/nbdswapd,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Java GUI broken on LTSP 5

2008-08-29 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 04:52:58AM +, Leonid Dubinsky wrote: snipity If the speed's fine, then there's something wrong with LTSP. If the speed sucks still, then that java app doesn't like being run remotely. The speed sucks. I conclude that this is not an LTSP problem. The same

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Java GUI broken on LTSP 5

2008-08-27 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:34:49AM +, Leonid Dubinsky wrote: What can I do to troubleshoot this? Simplest thing to do would be to test remote java app from a full fledged workstation. So, something along the lines of: (on debian/ubuntu based systems): 1) Going into

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] The Real Meat

2007-11-13 Thread Scott Balneaves
jam wrote: Hi ltsp 3 and 4 had the lbe and a complete build environment. ltsp 5 seems to be a trust-us-don't-touch-the-buttons. I followed a few links posted last week that ended up in .../~someone and utterly blank. Other people have already taken you to task on this. What links? The

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Moving from LTSP 4.2 to LTSP 5 package

2007-11-02 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:33:57AM -0400, Kevin Squire wrote: Now that LTSP 5 is nicely packaged with Debian, and with local apps looking promising on LTSP 5, I was thinking about making the move. But I am a bit worried. I have been using LTSP since 3.something. I am currently using LTSP

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Default client settings

2007-11-02 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:49:15PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: Oh, BTW -- any idea why thin client users see a floppy0 icon on their desktop even with no floppy in the drive? Because there's no really good way to determine if there's media in a floppy drive. Some floppy drives can tell you if

[Ltsp-discuss] LocalApps: It's alive!!

2007-11-01 Thread Scott Balneaves
http://ltspthinclient.blogspot.com/2007/11/local-apps-2-next-morning.html A winner is us. Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | Eternity is a very long time, Systems Department | especially towards the end. Legal Aid Manitoba |-- Woody Allen

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] URGENT: Can't go live with Feisty or Gutsy-Please help.

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:05:32AM +1300, Krsnendu dasa wrote: Has anyone actually used the terminals to print with Feisty or Gutsy. It seems most people use stand alone network printers. There was a change in printing system in LTSP 5 to jet pipe. I suspect there is a bug. Yes, there was a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client IP Addresses

2007-10-30 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:01:36PM -0400, Jaysen O'Dell wrote: FWIW I have been lurking here for about a year now. I have seen requests like this worked out and included in the actual LTSP. If I remember correctly LDM in C is just one example. If we make it work we ALL win. OK, well,

[Ltsp-discuss] Localapps spec. Comments always appreciated.

2007-10-30 Thread Scott Balneaves
Well, the big news coming out of this UDS/BTS is that we have a (possible) way to EASILY implements localapps on thin client workstations. Here's the spec: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ltsp/+spec/ltsp-localapps Follow the read the full spec link to see the gory details. In order to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5

2007-10-29 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:54:34AM +0100, Ondrej Valousek wrote: I can not help myself - I have to add my comments as well: Fine that you no longer use NFS by default - but you still give users an option to use it - so it should work! But it does not. Well, it worked for us in testing, if it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USE_XFS problem?

2007-10-29 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:28:41PM -0500, Anthony M Simonelli wrote: Ran into a snag with the USE_XFS setting in the lts.conf file. I know a lot of things have changed from Feisty to Gusty so maybe I'm doing something wrong. XFS support worked in Feisty but I can't get X to start on the thin

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Workstation not authorized

2007-10-29 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:32:59PM -0500, Anthony M Simonelli wrote: Came across a message when trying to log on a thin client. When I enter the user name and password, I get a message back stating: This workstation is not authorized to log onto this server What's causing this error

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Building LTSP-4.2: fetching sh-utils-2.0.tar.gz failed

2007-10-29 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:04:28AM +0100, Klaus-Peter Niedermann wrote: Hello all, I want to build LTSP-4.2 using the LBE (see http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Build-LTSP-42). But I have the Problem to fetch the sh-utils-2.0.tar.gz (see below). Is there a tested fix (I guess for

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp5 #2

2007-10-29 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:39:05PM +0200, Asmo Koskinen wrote: Well, I'm back. I started it all over again. Fresh installation with Ubuntu 7.10 and adding real stupid switch between eth1 and thin client. Well, well. Is that Jammin so awfull in LTSP5 environment? I really don't get this.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] URGENT: Can't go live with Feisty or Gutsy-Please help.

2007-10-29 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:27:32AM +1300, Krsnendu dasa wrote: PRINTING DETAILS I get a network host is busy message from CUPS. When you telnet to the host, can you connect? i.e. telnet ip address of terminal 9100 Do you get connected? If you type some text, does it come out on the printer?

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client IP Addresses

2007-10-29 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:11:31AM -0700, Mel Wade wrote: In LTSP, each client is seen by my content filter and firewall as all coming from the same address - the LAN address of the LTSP server. Rules and authentication all happen based on the IP address. So what happens with my LTSP lab is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5

2007-10-28 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:07:34AM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: I think ltsp3.x/4.x is something that needs to co-exist with ltsp5.x since the reuse of older hardware attraction is only possible with 3.x/4.x Why do you say that? I've booted ltsp5 on a 250mhz box with 64 megs of ram. Scott --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5

2007-10-28 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:19:21AM +0900, jam wrote: Hi I've lots of LTSP background, I don't think that I need help to get it running, I want to know about the setup * I installed Gutsy on a machine, did the updates * I followed

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5

2007-10-28 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:06:01PM +0200, Asmo Koskinen wrote: I write this from Edubuntu 7.10 Server, so itself is online. Jammin 225 goes online but progress bar goes nowhere and Jammin 225 drops itself to BusyBox (initramfs). Well, if it's dropped out to there, it hasn't managed to get

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ssh in clients

2007-10-23 Thread Scott Balneaves
mario salcedo wrote: Hi, anyone could tell me which is the risk to enable ssh in my clients? Is dangerous? Anyone could do ssh to my clients or only my server? Well, if you enable ssh on your clients by running an sshd on them, then yes, people would be able to ssh to your clients. Scott --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 on Ubuntu Feisty

2007-10-22 Thread Scott Balneaves
Anthony M Simonelli wrote: There seems to be a great deal of changes from LTSP on Ubuntu 7.4 to 7.10. The lts.conf file has been moved, LDM is no longer a Python script, nfs-kernel-server is no longer necessary, etc. Yup! We were busy little beavers. :) I'm trying to understand how to use

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] dhcpd

2007-10-22 Thread Scott Balneaves
roland brouwers wrote: Can anybody tell me how I have to trace the error? /var/log/messages doesn't say anything significant. Take a look in /var/log/syslog*, or .../daemon*, dhcpd should be logging it's errors somewhere. If it's not starting, there will be errors in one of the log files. cd

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Gutsy ltsp booting error

2007-10-22 Thread Scott Balneaves
Ondrej Valousek wrote: Ok this is probably to Scott: There is a problem when booting LTSP client based on Ubuntu Gutsy when NFS boot image is being used. Basically the booting process never exists from /usr/lib/ltsp/ltsp_config script. Further investigation shows that the hanging line is:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] :ldm: default session and language

2007-10-20 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 10:07:41AM +0800, jam wrote: What I was observing was that the ubuntu folk, gnome folk do is dumb down the interface in a way that makes it hard to recover. If I don't want to doit-that-way the recovery is hidden and cloaked in mystique. This has nothing to do with

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problems with ltspfs and gdm

2007-10-19 Thread Scott Balneaves
SZABO Zsolt wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Scott Balneaves wrote: Use the LDM_USERNAME and LDM_PASSWORD lts.conf parameters: [00:11:22:33:44:55] LDM_USERNAME = guest1 LDM_PASSWORD = foo1 [22:33:44:55:66:77] LDM_USERNAME = guest2 LDM_PASSWORD = foo2 That way, you can assign

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problems with ltspfs and gdm

2007-10-19 Thread Scott Balneaves
SZABO Zsolt wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Scott Balneaves wrote: SZABO Zsolt wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Scott Balneaves wrote: SZABO Zsolt wrote: And how can the so called guest login be solved with ldm? (Accounts with no, or empty password) Using gdm I only had to enable the trusted

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problems with ltspfs and gdm

2007-10-19 Thread Scott Balneaves
SZABO Zsolt wrote: It hangs after entering the password (normally ssh does not require a password in such situation, i.e. using authorized_keys...): Verifying password... OK, I'll check into that. Cheers, Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | Eternity is a very long time, Systems Department |

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] :ldm: default session and language

2007-10-19 Thread Scott Balneaves
SZABO Zsolt wrote: what does ldm mean about default session and language? Can I configure it in lts.conf, or somewhere else? Default will end up being whatever will be the default for login on your box. So, if on the server you set up your default lang to be, say, en_CA, and your default

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problems with ltspfs and gdm

2007-10-18 Thread Scott Balneaves
SZABO Zsolt wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Scott Balneaves wrote: ltspfs will only work with ldm, as it sets up some of the security stuff needed by ltspfs. I see. So there is no way to use ltspfs with gdm? The page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Updated_Version_For_Feisty says one can

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problems with ltspfs and gdm

2007-10-18 Thread Scott Balneaves
SZABO Zsolt wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Scott Balneaves wrote: SZABO Zsolt wrote: And how can the so called guest login be solved with ldm? (Accounts with no, or empty password) Using gdm I only had to enable the trusted terminals in /etc/securetty, AFAIR... As we use ssh

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problems with ltspfs and gdm

2007-10-16 Thread Scott Balneaves
Martin Vuk wrote: Hi, I keep getting Couldn't read LTSPFS_TOKEN atom when I try to use ltspfs. The command I try is export $LTSP_CLIENT=`echo $DISPLAY|cut -d: -f1` ltspfs $LTSP_CLIENT:/var/run/devices/ $HOME/drives/ The server is debian unstable and ltsp ver 5.0.31debian1 and I use X

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problems with ltspfs and gdm

2007-10-16 Thread Scott Balneaves
Martin Vuk wrote: Hi, ltspfs will only work with ldm, as it sets up some of the security stuff needed by ltspfs. I see. So there is no way to use ltspfs with gdm? The page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Updated_Version_For_Feisty says one can. That's user supplied documentation. Nice

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