Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ltsp-discuss Digest, Vol 61, Issue 3

2011-06-10 Thread Jam
On Friday, June 10, 2011 11:25:29 PM ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Thanks for all your support and ideas LTSPers, IMHO SuSE with it's curses based yast is the nicest remote-admin distro that exists. James, It is easy to see that LTSP is an elegant solution. And

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slowly Moving Away from LTSP

2011-06-08 Thread Jam
On Thursday, June 09, 2011 03:28:12 AM ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Thanks for all your support and ideas LTSPers, LTSP seems out of reach for me at this time. It will be hard to support it remotely while I'm learning it myself. Bypassing a terminal server by flashing

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slowly Moving Away from LTSP

2011-06-02 Thread Jam
On Friday, June 03, 2011 08:51:56 AM ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: It feels hard to admit this, but LTSP may NOT be a solution for a Kenyan hospital and 62 thin clients. I've been unsuccessful in building a test system for the last week or so. During any of the dozen OS

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rcfile parameters

2011-05-31 Thread Jam
On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 09:41:30 PM ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Hi the dev list has been dormant for some while ... I wanted to do stuff like this in lts.conf MODULE_01=hampshire minX=390 maxX=3750 minY=588 maxY=3644 RCFILE_01=/bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 port

[Ltsp-discuss] rcfile parameters

2011-05-27 Thread Jam
Hi has anybody tried to invoke RCFILE_NN with parameters? I can't see why exec 'echo 12 2 3 /tmp/ans' would not work. (that's what happens to RCFILE_NN=this_or_that) Any experiences? The mechanism for modules may need to be implimented ie MODULE_01=something*argument=bla*arg=blabla Thanks for

[Ltsp-discuss] netcat

2011-05-13 Thread Jam
Hi when I fire off netcat in listen daemon mode as one of the RCFILE_xx in lts.conf then netcat dies as it is (presumably) too early for nc. After booting I can sh -xv /etc/init.d/netcat and it works perfectly. Is there any 'proper way' of launching the daemon later in the boot process or

[Ltsp-discuss] tsharc touch

2011-05-07 Thread Jam
Oli in one of the forums you said quote just keep the name and use the update-initramfs and ltsp-update-kernels scripts as described above, keep a backup of a working copy of the script so you are not screwed if the clients dont boot anymore and can roll back :) /quote I've read

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Horrid Hardware

2011-05-05 Thread Jam
On Thursday, May 05, 2011 11:32:09 PM ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I cannot use the nfs route as I need to run if the server dies! Hang on a minute! If you need the clients to run without a server you are in the wrong place. Standalone fat clients

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Horrid Hardware

2011-04-28 Thread Jam
I cannot use the nfs route as I need to run if the server dies! Hang on a minute! If you need the clients to run without a server you are in the wrong place. Standalone fat clients are your only option if that is your requirement. sigh This dump is for all the kind and well intentioned

[Ltsp-discuss] Horrid Hardware

2011-04-25 Thread Jam
G'day I hope that some clever person can say a few wise words: I have some utterly utterly horrid hadware that I need to tame. It resisted ubuntu/suse/centos/rhel6 install but it sweetly runs a 10.04 chroot ltsp. For the morbid: http://www.micros.com/Products/HardwareSolutions/point-sale-

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Horrid Hardware

2011-04-25 Thread Jam
It resisted ubuntu/suse/centos/rhel6 install but it sweetly runs a 10.04 chroot ltsp. For the morbid: http://www.micros.com/Products/HardwareSolutions/point- sale- hardware.htm (WS5) How can I do exactly the same as ltsp but not with a nbd root but a hard disk root. f you want to have

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Lower footprint kernel

2011-04-19 Thread Jam
On Wednesday, April 20, 2011 12:44:57 AM ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I'm trying to set up LTSP to ThinCan thin clients (AMD geode 266Mhz, 64mb ram). The problem seems to be that default kernel is too big for thin client to load (.nbi image is ~13MB). It just starts

[Ltsp-discuss] Deep Black Magic

2011-04-19 Thread Jam
Hi I have a geode box, using a 10.04 chroot it boots and runs fine (as a TC). It has TWO windbond 83627 (HG and G) chips. The first is detected and all works. The second is not probed. It has /dev/ttyS5 on it which runs the ELO touch screen. So to use the touch I need to enable the UART on the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Are 64 bit clients better than 32 bit clients?

2011-04-09 Thread Jam
On Saturday, April 09, 2011 05:47:04 AM ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: The benchmarks are quite the wrong sort of benchmarks to test an LTSP server, so I opine that 64 bit servers are significantly better. Which would be appropriate do you think? Actually I've not seen

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Are 64 bit clients better than 32 bit clients?

2011-04-04 Thread Jam
On Monday, April 04, 2011 10:46:57 PM ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: In general I would say avoid 64 bit unless you know you want it. In general make your servers 64 bit. There have not been many published benchmarks of what sort of improvements you are likely to get

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] i386 i686 and that mess

2011-03-29 Thread Jam
On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:21:27 AM ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: The ubuntu version of ltsp that I use is packaged as i386 but it is i686 as ubuntu host is. I need to build an i386 version. Is the easiest way to build every package in the 686 version for 386.

[Ltsp-discuss] i386 i686 and that mess

2011-03-28 Thread Jam
Hi The ubuntu version of ltsp that I use is packaged as i386 but it is i686 as ubuntu host is. I need to build an i386 version. Is the easiest way to build every package in the 686 version for 386. Any suggestions. [the problem] I have geode (i586) clients, but they wont boot a 686

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Enabing fat machines on client network

2011-01-08 Thread Jam
the detail that is needed to answer Your Machine [anymachine, but in this case your fat client] Needs to have a gateway (route shows it and eg command route add default gw 192.168.5.1]) It needs a DNS server eg [haycorn] /home/jam [2001]% cat /etc/resolv.conf ### /etc/resolv.conf file autogenerated

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Enabing fat machines on client network

2011-01-08 Thread Jam
On Sunday 09 January 2011 07:31:29 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: But if you have some (thin) clients that see the internet and some (fat) others that don't, then it's likely that your server settings are fine and it's your fat clients that need tweaking. You could try

[Ltsp-discuss] Re without dhcp but with usb boot

2010-12-14 Thread Jam
On Saturday 11 December 2010 05:15:59 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Hi, I have one question. I seen many of tutorials, pages ... that describe configuration of ltsp. Problem is all of them based on DHCP. I would like to run it without DHCP, booted from one USB memory.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Failed to read dhcp lease file

2010-12-14 Thread Jam
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:58:41 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: For starters, I have a DHCP server which is working fine when serving ltsp clients (all my clients have the same hardware configuration). I'm using K12 Linux (FC10). My clients have two 'on-board' NIC

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-17 Thread Jam
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 22:30:46 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: My goal is to have the students work individually on one and the same (LTSP-)server without means of communication or file-sharing, just as if they were working on individual machines without any

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-16 Thread Jam
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 08:31:03 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I would like to use LTSP specifically for exam settings in an introductory computer science class. The students have learned some basic system administration and programming under Linux on their personal

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] karmic kernel panic

2009-12-24 Thread jam
On Saturday 12 December 2009 11:38:33 you wrote: G'day Guys If anybody can save me the time looking for the fault I'd appreciate it. I've done this lots, the basic setup works, I give detail just to be complate. I wanted to try the latest karmic ltsp so ... I setup karmic in a VM

[Ltsp-discuss] splash

2009-12-17 Thread jam
G'day all I would like to have my own spash image (product branding) karmic's xsplash is easy (to understand and to change). ltsp looks much more complex. All the reading I can find is about *changing* to another splash but not about usplash artwork.so and how to do that. Can anybody point me at

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] slow install

2009-12-14 Thread jam
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 00:17:09 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I'm running 32. You may be correct, there. jam wrote: On Saturday 12 December 2009 02:23:49 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I've just started moving people here over to my new

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] slow install

2009-12-14 Thread jam
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 00:17:09 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Honestly, the desktop version of karmic is all I could get to run on this server. ?older versions would not even boot after installation due to some weird server incompatibilities. The desktop version

[Ltsp-discuss] autologin

2009-12-14 Thread jam
Hi on my last ltsp5 server I hacked ldm.c to get autologing working. I have just installed karmic and all is good except no attempt to auto-login From what I've read this should be all that is needed. Help! /tftboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf [default] LDM_SERVER = 192.168.5.74

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] autologin

2009-12-14 Thread jam
Hi on my last ltsp5 server I hacked ldm.c to get autologing working. I have just installed karmic and all is good except no attempt to auto-login From what I've read this should be all that is needed. Help! /tftboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf [default] LDM_SERVER = 192.168.5.74

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ltsp-discuss] 4.2 vs 5 with Neoware clients

2009-12-13 Thread jam
On Sunday 13 December 2009 20:59:12 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Ok, still reading and learning about ltsp. Perhaps I should backup and ask what the best direction is before I get too far. I have 3 Neoware clients, two are Geode based, like 128MB ram, but could be

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] slow install

2009-12-11 Thread jam
On Saturday 12 December 2009 02:23:49 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I've just started moving people here over to my new LTSP server. the only one was a graduated desktop machine. this new one is a legit server with 16 gigs of ran and a 2.33 quad core processor. So

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5 (MUEKOW) source?

2009-12-11 Thread jam
On Saturday 12 December 2009 02:23:49 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: New guy here, be gentle. So where does one get the source for LTSP5? I'm trying to put together a server using Arch as my preferred distro. It's different enough that I can't just lift code from Ubuntu

[Ltsp-discuss] karmic kernel panic

2009-12-11 Thread jam
G'day Guys If anybody can save me the time looking for the fault I'd appreciate it. I've done this lots, the basic setup works, I give detail just to be complate. I wanted to try the latest karmic ltsp so ... I setup karmic in a VM Followed

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Autostart applications via lts.conf

2009-10-08 Thread jam
On Friday 09 October 2009 03:15:35 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: ~/.profile ~/.bashrc /usr/share/autostart/ This is WM stuff, not LTSP .bashrc .profile etc will NOT work as they execute WHEN a terminal is launched. For gnome see the system-session settings

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Autostart applications via lts.conf

2009-10-06 Thread jam
On Tuesday 06 October 2009 22:51:21 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Since it's already possible to autologin a specific user via lts.conf I'm wondering how hard it would be to autostart applications after X server is started. For example I would like to open firefox to a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] logging into tc using ssh keys

2009-10-06 Thread jam
On Tuesday 06 October 2009 22:51:21 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: [snip] The private key, however, stays on the server (and is not even in the client NBD or NFS image), and when the admin try to connect, it is used by ssh in an encrypted form. [snip] The SERVER in this case

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] No login screen with 64 bits

2009-10-03 Thread jam
On Saturday 03 October 2009 04:09:36 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I've installed ltsp via the ubuntu alternate 64 bits CD on a HP dc5100 (one network interface, 4G of RAM) Installation was OK. When booting the clients (also 64 bits), dhcp is ok (client is getting IP

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Printing from Local apps

2009-09-30 Thread jam
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 21:20:20 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: The cups logs did not offer any hints either. I think I found something. ubuntu-studio 192.168.1.101 ubuntu-ltsp5  192.168.192.168.1Z1.102 ltsp22        192.168.0.22 [snip] Indeed you did. CUPS

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp for RDP?

2009-09-01 Thread jam
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 02:32:29 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: PS: Personally, I know very little about CentOS and prefer Ubuntu/debian and I would say most of the folks in #ltsp these days have similar inclinations, so if you plan to get most of your help from

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

2009-08-18 Thread jam
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 04:51:17 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Alok Mahendrooalon...@fastmail.in wrote: Does the Server for LTSP have to be standalone or is it possible for one to work on both the client and server using the same

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

2009-08-18 Thread jam
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 04:51:17 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I use Gnome from various clients simultaneously all the time. So far I really only ran into Firefox and friends to cause trouble. Wonder who these friends are. Open office ... kmail ... amarok ...

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to configure LTSP to use local hardware

2009-07-20 Thread jam
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 08:54:15 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I am using Ubuntu Server 8.04 + Xubuntu on Sun Fire X4150 Server. and my lts.conf is below [default]     X_COLOR_DEPTH=16     LOCALDEV=True     SOUND=True     NBD_SWAP=True     SYSLOG_HOST=server All my

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

2009-04-29 Thread jam
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 15:53:20 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I would propose a temporary user of sorts that pulls from the skel/template you created, does a pam makehomedir or whatever it is, and removes it upon logout. This way, you have separate user accounts

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] R: small chroot environement

2009-04-29 Thread jam
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 15:53:20 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: The hardware of my clients is very poor : PII 200 mhz + 64 mb. They works quite well, but during my tests i saw that booting time and performances are proportionally at dimension of chroot image

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] small chroot environement

2009-04-28 Thread jam
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 03:04:17 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Hi, do you know how to create a small chroot environment for ltsp clients? I have created the default one with ltsp-build-client but the i386.img became 186 mb with xubuntu 9.04 and 150mb  with ubuntu 8.04.

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

2009-04-28 Thread jam
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 03:04:17 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: [snip] For simplicity and ease of user management (the school has no permanent IT personnel to handle day-to-day maintenance), we only use one shared account for all students. The implications of this

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hybrid client?

2009-04-01 Thread jam
On Thursday 02 April 2009 08:14:26 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I am trying to setup a hybrid client -- in my case a netbook -- that can work in both fat and thin modes: Fat mode client: When disconnected from the network the client runs like a normal fat Linux laptop.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] latest ltsp for Ubuntu Hardy?

2009-02-17 Thread jam
On Monday 16 February 2009 21:17:42 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: My CentOS and SuSE clients are a Hardy chroot. In fact my VIA EPIA clients do run on that, but in later chroots the graphics chokes. So in general WHY NOT. The chroot has nothing to do with the host

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] metacity segfault in client

2009-02-17 Thread jam
On Monday 16 February 2009 21:17:42 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I'm using ltsp-build-client --kiosk. This is the last thing showing up in the log from the client: kernel: [   36.796787] metacity[3558]: segfault at 0 ip 080abab3 sp bf969700 error 4 in

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] latest ltsp for Ubuntu Hardy?

2009-02-11 Thread jam
On Thursday 12 February 2009 01:42:25 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/UpdatingChroot https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ (Main Ubuntu/LTSP wiki home) AFAIK you shouldn't/can't run Ibex/Jaunty chroots on a Hardy

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NBD error (LTSP5 on Ubuntu8.10)

2009-02-09 Thread jam
On Monday 09 February 2009 22:28:53 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Still I do not understand the NBD-related error. Since in a different test set-up (Intel Xeon server, Dell Optiplex GX1 Pentium III clients), the thin clients seem to get hung over that error. The

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NBD error (LTSP5 on Ubuntu8.10)

2009-02-06 Thread jam
On Saturday 07 February 2009 07:56:27 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Still I do not understand the NBD-related error. Since in a different test set-up (Intel Xeon server, Dell Optiplex GX1 Pentium III clients), the thin clients seem to get hung over that error. The error

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ldm woes - solved

2009-02-03 Thread jam
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 04:09:08 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: In the Gutsy or so days I took the whole chroot for ltsp, wrapped it with the tools in a rpm and have been using it ever since on CentOS for customers and SuSE for me. It has a single irritating 'feature'

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Eclipse Depolyment on LTSP

2009-02-02 Thread jam
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 04:09:08 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: [snip] If you were using a very small set of plugins for Eclipse, you may be able to drive down memory costs, but that goes back to the questions about what types of development you're doing. You folk do

[Ltsp-discuss] ldm woes

2009-01-31 Thread jam
Hi In the Gutsy or so days I took the whole chroot for ltsp, wrapped it with the tools in a rpm and have been using it ever since on CentOS for customers and SuSE for me. It has a single irritating 'feature' logout with autologin set is immediate relogin. Curiosity, features and fixes led me

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP boot server != root server (Ubuntu 8.04)

2009-01-29 Thread jam
On Friday 30 January 2009 07:42:22 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: posted this question on the Ubuntu forum earlier, no reply. How would I configure/build LTSP client if the boot server is not the same as LTSP server? Given a 64-bit computer (host) which runs several

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ltsp-discuss] HOWTO: Automated thin-client shutdown and installing NTP server for client time sync

2009-01-24 Thread jam
On Sunday 25 January 2009 03:30:58 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Just wanted to point out a couple of new HOWTOs I've created (Ubuntu specific, feel free to copy and modify for your distro and/or distro independent instructions/docs). Please feel free to correct any

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu LTSP 5 questions

2009-01-23 Thread jam
On Saturday 24 January 2009 04:49:18 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Patrick, Have you tried nosplash in default file? - Jordan Patrick Rady wrote: We have upgraded to LTSP 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 and I have noticed a few oddities that I am hoping for feedback on. 1.)

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DVI graphics problem

2009-01-22 Thread jam
On Friday 23 January 2009 05:30:32 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I have set up a Kubuntu 8.04 LTSP server as a virtual machine at a VMware Server 2.0. The underlying operating system is an Ubuntu server 8.04. I have installed the ltsp-server package not the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ldm documentation

2009-01-22 Thread jam
On Friday 23 January 2009 05:30:32 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I'm hoping this works (I've been unable to post to this list in ages) Is there anyway to get ldm to look the same as gdm or kdm, Background We are looking at upgrading our current thin clients to new ones

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Harddisk boot image to PXE boot ?

2009-01-13 Thread jam
On Wednesday 14 January 2009 07:54:39 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: - On a non-productive system I can produce (with the kind help of -J.) a boot-cd using kiwi-ltsp-setup -cd and so. This works. - what I'd like to was to avoid the CD altogether and have a PXE-boot image

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] screen resolution through KVM switch

2009-01-10 Thread jam
On Sunday 11 January 2009 00:29:41 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I'm just posting my experience in case anybody else is fighting the same battle I just fought... I just spent a lot of time troubleshooting some video resolution issues.  No matter what I did, I couldn't get

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ltsp-5 problem on Etch : showing initramfs prompt

2008-12-24 Thread jam
On Thursday 25 December 2008 02:09:02 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: It seems I need a different 'pxelinux.cfg/default'  for nfs mounting, currently it is for using nbd-server. Please help me to change to nfs. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPWithoutNFS

[Ltsp-discuss] Feedback: was Login fails

2008-12-20 Thread jam
Hi My TCs are VIA EPIA boards. I installed the Ibex LTSP client suit. Boot fails with the openchrome graphics drivers saying BusIDs needed with fb devices I took my /opt/ltsp harking back to Gutsy ??, kept the current kernel and initfs (added the /lib/modules for the current kernel) and all is

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

2008-12-18 Thread jam
On Thursday 18 December 2008 23:20:51 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I need to use Ltsp linux clients, but they tftp server, dhcp server and nfs server are hosted on a Windows XP machine. Can I have the pxelinux.0 ,ltsp kernel and file system Image on an XP machine? I read

[Ltsp-discuss] Login fails

2008-12-15 Thread jam
Hi Despite the hard work of all involved, and with apologies, I do not like the SuSE TC implementation 1) When I tried, my VIA EPIA TCs would not boot 2) They make an aweful mess in the tftpboot directory I have made rpm for a CentOS install (based on a bog standard ubuntu install) so I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wyse S10 winterm

2008-12-05 Thread jam
On Saturday 06 December 2008 01:12:29 ltsp-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody out there get a Wyse S10 to work with Edubuntu 8.04? I managed to get thin clients to work perfectly with Intel P4 PCs with 512K ram with no issues, but with the Wyse S10, I get 8 of the 10 progress bars to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Waiting problem with ltsp-5 in Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-05 Thread jam
On Saturday 06 December 2008 08:45:57 ltsp-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using a ltsp-5 default instalation in Ubuntu 8.10. The clients are old machines: k6-2 500 Mhz with 64 Mb When the boot ocurs and the client receives all the nbi.img kernel it hangs, after about 5-10 min

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Need Help with installing ltsp5 on Centos 5.2 - reg

2008-11-27 Thread jam
On Friday 28 November 2008 11:08:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Centos 5.2 on our new server and would like to install ltsp5 on it.  I had searched for some suitable documentation on how to install on Centos 5.2 but did not get much luck. I'm afraid that is impossible. I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu LTSP: different dhcp/pxe and ltsp server

2008-11-27 Thread jam
On Friday 28 November 2008 11:08:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using a LTSP Server installed via the Ubuntu 8.10 Alternate Installation CD within a fairly complex network with a already existing   DHCP server. I would now like to set up the following scenario: Server 1 (Our existing DHCP

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5 - ldm: su user problem

2008-11-25 Thread jam
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 03:16:31 ltsp-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, I had some trouble working with ltsp: I logged in on one of the ldm-servers I specified. Then I changed the user and tried to open a program: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/amnt/home/Peter.Stein$ su ripley*

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [ltsp-discuss] Network clients stop responding for a while after 4 or 5 units boot up

2008-11-19 Thread jam
On Thursday 20 November 2008 04:27:31 ltsp-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will do, but Im just annoyed by the individual ROM generation from ROM-o-matic. My refurbished units all have different lan cards and I was hoping for a universal diskette bootrom. Any help? :) I think

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Dell Optiplex GX110 - SXGA - LTSP4.2

2008-11-17 Thread jam
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 07:32:19 ltsp-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone here have ever got a Dell Optiplex GX110 running on SXGA (1280x1024) with LTSP 4.2? I have tried a lot of modelines and combinations of parameters like refresh rates and video RAM, but to no avail. If I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Server's root file system accessed by LTSP clients instead of chrooted file system (LTSP5 on Ubuntu8.10)

2008-11-14 Thread jam
On Saturday 15 November 2008 07:31:56 ltsp-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ere is my case: I have installed LTSP5 on a HP Proliant ML110 (Pentium Xenon) server with Ubuntu 8.10. The clients I am using for testing purposes is an old Pentium III machine and a less old Pentium M Laptop. After

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp-5 on Ubuntu

2008-11-12 Thread jam
On Thursday 13 November 2008 07:20:41 ltsp-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Ubuntu-8.04. I want to setup ltsp-server. apt-get showed me the following packages : ltsp-client ltsp-client - core ltspfs ltspfsd ltsp - manager ltsp - server ltsp - server -

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X screen resolution

2008-11-08 Thread jam
On Saturday 08 November 2008 14:12:20 ltsp-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the following problem: the size of the fonts of certain web pages is too small in firefox... setting the default fontsize to a larger value does not help because the appearance of such pages are controlled via

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Ubuntu Fat Client help

2008-11-05 Thread jam
On Thursday 06 November 2008 02:55:34 ltsp-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are running LTSP Fat Client on Ubuntu Version 8. We are having a problem that user processes remain running when the user logs out. Hence when another user logs into the same machine they have less RAM available

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] looking for way to get basic browsing and access to my linux machine at various points in my house

2008-11-05 Thread jam
On Thursday 06 November 2008 02:55:34 ltsp-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At each location I plan to put a flat screen (wall mounted or on adjustable arm), a bluetooth or IR single unit keyboard/mouse and as small and power miserly a thin-ish client box as possible.   The system needs to be

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple clients - differents nbd images, needed RW access on NBD

2008-10-31 Thread jam
On Friday 31 October 2008 23:53:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About Swap, when using a fat client setup, when the user opens several applications (OpenOffice, Terminal Server Client, Thunderbird, Firefox, et al) all those process are executing in the client's memory, so without swap when you

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5, LDM Autologin and poweroff

2008-10-31 Thread jam
On Saturday 01 November 2008 07:55:29 ltsp-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set up some LTSP clients with autologin but I need to even to   poweroff clients when users finish working but with this configuration   it seems to be not possible at all. If user logout then client log in again,

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

2008-10-17 Thread jam
On Friday 17 October 2008 21:10:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No it simply means YOU don't know how to do it. Making LTSP more complicated to solve THAT problem is silly. My previous mail shows 2 ways to achieve bog-standard-ltsp AND administrator access without passwd access from the

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

2008-10-16 Thread jam
On Friday 17 October 2008 01:47:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I don't see the benefit to have an additional SSH server by default running... if your network isn't firewalled, you've got a lot more to worry about than an open SSH port. It's common network administration

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

2008-10-16 Thread jam
On Friday 17 October 2008 01:47:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Security through complexity is dumb and ends up biting you: Security by obscurity will probably work against brute force ssh worms, but is less likely to work where there is a determined attack. My server is on a 192.168. From

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] change resolution -- lts.conf file

2008-10-16 Thread jam
On Friday 17 October 2008 01:47:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Ubuntu 8.04.01 in a WMware environment and made the automatically installation from LTSP. After the installation i booted the client but the resolution isn't what i want. here my lts.conf file ***

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

2008-10-16 Thread jam
On Friday 17 October 2008 05:01:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] As I've pointed out, ltsp is an alternate use of ssh, and as Rob pointed out, ltsp requires that ssh be configured in a way that is simply unacceptable for traditional use, i.e., remote (open) access. [snip] No it simply means

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

2008-10-15 Thread jam
On Thursday 16 October 2008 07:19:04 ltsp-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I don't see the benefit to have an additional SSH server by default running... if your network isn't firewalled, you've got a lot more to worry about than an open SSH port. It's common network

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Halts after initrd Loads

2008-10-14 Thread jam
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 18:42:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LTSP won't work over wireless. Not quiet, won't BOOT over wireless (can't boot: no network card before you boot and you need network card to boot) I do have a network card that is capable of network booting. What I was

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how to connect computer to LTSP5 server

2008-10-14 Thread jam
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 23:21:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a LTSP5 environment running on Ubuntu 8.04 (64bit, clients 32bit). I'd like to add a indepentent computer to this LAN, which has its own hard drive, which boots up and then on starting X it would connect to terminal

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Halts after initrd Loads

2008-10-14 Thread jam
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 23:21:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LTSP won't work over wireless. Not quiet, won't BOOT over wireless (can't boot: no network card before you boot and you need network card to boot) I do have a network card that is capable of network booting. What I was

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Halts after initrd Loads

2008-10-09 Thread jam
On Friday 10 October 2008 03:05:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple things: LTSP won't work over wireless. Not quiet, won't BOOT over wireless (can't boot: no network card before you boot and you need network card to boot) You must only have 1 DHCP server available to the thin client you

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Different DNS Servers per client (UMPA Dev)

2008-09-17 Thread jam
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 18:51:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Is is possible to setup the lts.conf to have different dns servers based on the client?  I need to limit certain clients to only use what is listed in the /etc/hosts file.  I have tried using the DNS_SERVER =

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Messaging on LTSP 5

2008-09-10 Thread jam
On Thursday 11 September 2008 03:02:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. How can I, as the class teacher, type a message from my terminal and send it to all the children who are logged in to explain that they must logout in 5 minutes? 2. Another reason for requesting this is that we have teachers

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Setting up LTSP5 in fedora 9

2008-09-08 Thread jam
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 03:05:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Regarding setting up multiple instances of sshd) I think it was the ltsp-developer list.     And to quote Warren 'it was surprisingly non-trivial' Actually on port 22 I had 100s to 1000s login attempts per week, on a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] x authorization

2008-09-08 Thread jam
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 03:05:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anybody can explain to a bear of little brain :-) Once-upon-a-time xhost + would allow anybody to write to your display. That is no longer true with ltsp-5 I have clients say ws001 with user HeHim logged-on. IMe

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Setting up LTSP5 in fedora 9

2008-09-07 Thread jam
On Monday 08 September 2008 03:01:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somebody on this mailing list just went through the same process in the last week or two. The suggestion for him was to setup 2 instances of sshd.  One to listen on the internal interface and allow password logins, and the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] x authorization

2008-09-05 Thread jam
On Friday 05 September 2008 22:18:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anybody can explain to a bear of little brain :-) Once-upon-a-time xhost + would allow anybody to write to your display. That is no longer true with ltsp-5 I have clients say ws001 with user HeHim logged-on. IMe want

[Ltsp-discuss] x authorization

2008-09-04 Thread jam
Hi If anybody can explain to a bear of little brain :-) Once-upon-a-time xhost + would allow anybody to write to your display. That is no longer true with ltsp-5 I have clients say ws001 with user HeHim logged-on. IMe want to send HeHim a message with xmessage. How can I do that, in

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 TOUCH Option SwapY (KB)

2008-09-04 Thread jam
On Thursday 04 September 2008 03:06:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi.  I apologize.  I have been on vacation from the computer for the past two weeks.  Every now and then - ya gotta get away ;) Anyhow,  I was the one who added the touchscreen code to configure-x.sh (the X configuration script

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

2008-08-27 Thread jam
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 21:14:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) you know the java app has nothing to do with the TC b) you know the SAME hardware works OK in 4.2 c) you conclude it is the transport, that the TC hardware cannot deal with ssh encryption fast enough. My TC is HP5735.

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

2008-08-26 Thread jam
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 03:06:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is something wrong with Java GUI applications on LTSP 5. The GUI is *extremely* sluggish. It takes around 5 seconds for a file to appear in an editor after a double-click, or for a menu to open. The problem is

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