[Ltsp-discuss] local usb card reader

2007-06-20 Thread Rob Owens
Hi, I'm new to the list. I've been on the K12LTSP list for a while, and I posted a question there that was never answered fully so I figured I'd see if you guys had any advice for me. I have a Sandisk card reader that I'm using successfully on my thin clients. It only has one slot, for SD

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local usb card reader

2007-06-21 Thread Rob Owens
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McQuillan Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:58 AM To: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local usb card reader Rob Owens wrote: Hi, I'm new to the list. I've been

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local usb card reader

2007-06-22 Thread Rob Owens
Jim, if you can give me some basic instructions to get me started, I'll try to do this. I'm not very experienced doing this stuff, but I promise to try. It just won't be this weekend--today is the first day this week I get to see my wife, and tomorrow I have to change the balljoints on my car...

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Sound and Mixer-Application

2007-06-25 Thread Rob Owens
You could try alsamixer and/or alsamixergui -Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Markus Zimmermann Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 1:22 AM To: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Sound and Mixer-Application Hi all, i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local usb card reader

2007-06-26 Thread Rob Owens
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Balneaves Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 4:54 PM To: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local usb card reader On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:56:55AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: Jim

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Which is the most stable LTSP distro

2007-06-29 Thread Rob Owens
I've been using LTSP 4.2 on both Xubuntu 6.10 and Ubuntu 6.06, basically since those distros were released. No LTSP-related problems whatsoever. I'm also now using K12LTSP 5.0EL (which is CentOS 5 and LTSP 4.2). I haven't been using it long enough to claim it's perfectly stable, but I haven't

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 and Local Apps...progress...somewhat

2007-07-11 Thread Rob Owens
Jim Kronebusch wrote: confirm users with id username and getent passwd username. I configured /etc/security/pam_mount.conf with the following line: volume * nfs 10.6.1.155 /home/ /home/ - - - To try and tell pam to mount the users home directory at login. This doesn't seem to be

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Server and client IP Addresses

2007-07-13 Thread Rob Owens
Don Robertson wrote: ave a old windows firewall that I want to change to Monowall. My colleague is busy typing up a list of books we would like to buy, but we have to apply to the government for approval and funds. We should get them by the end of the decade. After that we can apply for

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 and Freenx Tests

2007-07-17 Thread Rob Owens
Joe Baker wrote: Faraz Khan wrote the following on 07/16/2007 02:10 AM: I wonder how well SSH compression fares? as far as I can tell it only works with ssh protocol ver 1 so I wonder if the NETWORK_COMPRESSION variable in ldm actually does anything. I heard somewhere that it comes close

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 and Freenx Tests

2007-07-19 Thread Rob Owens
Here's an article I just came across which talks about NX thin clients. http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6274440071.html -Rob - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] two seats per terminal

2007-07-23 Thread Rob Owens
I recently used an old Gateway P3 for a MythTV frontend system. It had onboard video and would not recognize the PCI video card that I added until I upgraded the bios of the motherboard. You might want to try that... -Rob Nadav Kavalerchik wrote: Hi :-) i've tried to install another video

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] multiple XDM_SERVERs?

2007-08-09 Thread Rob Owens
Have you tried using the XDMCP Chooser? You can probably set it up using 'gdmsetup', otherwise modify gdm.conf. This will provide a menu on the login screen which lets the user choose which server to log into. -Rob Stephan Mueller wrote: Hi everyone! Is there a way to have multiple

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Application Publishing Ability

2007-08-15 Thread Rob Owens
I've used Cygwin/X and also tested Xming. I found Xming slightly more straightforward to use, but it didn't work well on one of my servers (K12LTSP 5.0EL which is based on CentOS 5). It would take 2 minutes to launch an application! On the other server (CentOS 4) it seemed to work perfectly.

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 4.2 and 5.0 on the same network

2007-08-21 Thread Rob Owens
I'm currently running LTSP 4.2, but would like to test version 5.0. Is there a convenient way to do this with both servers on the same network? My current setup is Xubuntu 6.10 running LTSP 4.2, with Debian Etch handling DHCP (next-server points to the Xubuntu machine). I'd like to enable LTSP

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 4.2 and 5.0 on the same network

2007-08-21 Thread Rob Owens
Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2007, 10:48 -0400 schrieb Rob Owens: I'm currently running LTSP 4.2, but would like to test version 5.0. Is there a convenient way to do this with both servers on the same network? My current setup is Xubuntu 6.10 running LTSP 4.2

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 4.2 and 5.0 on the same network

2007-08-22 Thread Rob Owens
Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2007, 10:48 -0400 schrieb Rob Owens: I'm currently running LTSP 4.2, but would like to test version 5.0. Is there a convenient way to do this with both servers on the same network? My current setup is Xubuntu 6.10 running LTSP 4.2

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 4.2 and 5.0 on the same network

2007-08-23 Thread Rob Owens
Rob Owens wrote: Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2007, 10:48 -0400 schrieb Rob Owens: I'm currently running LTSP 4.2, but would like to test version 5.0. Is there a convenient way to do this with both servers on the same network? My current setup

[Ltsp-discuss] client reboots continuously on LTSP 5

2007-08-23 Thread Rob Owens
I have a very non-urgent problem with one of my thin clients. It's a P2 233 MHz machine with 160 MB of RAM. It works fine on LTSP 4.2, but doesn't boot on LTSP 5. It gets to a point where it the screen says something about initrd, then it reboots itself. I can't read the messages completely

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] MS Access with LTSP?

2007-08-27 Thread Rob Owens
There's a way to separate the access database into a backend and frontend. Giving every user their own frontend seems to help with the multi-user problem, but Access is still not the best solution for this type of use. -Rob Bob Puff wrote: Shoot, I do need multiple simultaneous client access,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] MS Access with LTSP?

2007-08-27 Thread Rob Owens
You might want to add up the licensing cost for all those seats of MS Access and see if it'll pay to have someone rewrite the database in MySQL or something similar. Also, you can have a web-based frontend for Access. It's called a Data Access Page. I don't know anything about it besides that.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] setting SCREEN_02 as the default

2007-08-27 Thread Rob Owens
that, said: [Rdestop_Default] SCREEN_01 = rdesktop SCREEN_02 = startx [X_Default] SCREEN_01 = startx SCREEN_02 = rdesktop [ws001] LIKE Rdesktop_Default other options to ws001 [ws002] LIKE X_Default other options to ws002 ;-) 2007/8/24, Rob Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've got an LTSP

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] setting SCREEN_02 as the default

2007-08-27 Thread Rob Owens
Kai Wollweber wrote: Am Freitag, 24. August 2007 17:10 schrieb José Queiroz: Hummm... errr... have you ever thought about swapping screen_01 and screen_02, so rdesktop comes out on screen_01, on the selected clients? It's easy to do that, said: [Rdestop_Default] SCREEN_01 = rdesktop

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] setting SCREEN_02 as the default

2007-08-27 Thread Rob Owens
Rob Owens wrote: Kai Wollweber wrote: Am Freitag, 24. August 2007 17:10 schrieb José Queiroz: Hummm... errr... have you ever thought about swapping screen_01 and screen_02, so rdesktop comes out on screen_01, on the selected clients? It's easy to do that, said

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] setting SCREEN_02 as the default

2007-08-27 Thread Rob Owens
Rob Owens wrote: I created a startx.wait script, which is the same as the startx script with the following modification. It contains the lines: echo -nPress enter to Login to Windows read Whoops! That should have read Press enter to Login to Linux after

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5: printing now works. Thanks

2007-08-29 Thread Rob Owens
In LTSP 4.2 I had the same trouble until I specified 'use-host-decl-names on;' in my group of static IP addresses. -Rob Luis Montes wrote: I've also had trouble getting the settings to take in ltsp5 when specifying a host name. I'm currently using IP addresses in lts.conf and only

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problem with i810 on a Dell Dimension L800CXE

2007-08-29 Thread Rob Owens
In the past there's been discussion about these old Dells with the i810 on the K12LTSP mailing list. Try searching their archives. https://listman.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/ -Rob Tanner Bachman wrote: Hi Everyone, I have three old Dell Dimension L800CXE computers laying around and I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Adding users via LDAP/AD

2007-08-30 Thread Rob Owens
Jim Kronebusch wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:07:19 -0500, Dan Trockman wrote We are using LDAP / Active Directory (windows 2000 server) to authenticate thin client user logins to Edubuntu 7.04. Users can successfully log-in if we have already created a user for them (manually). 1. What

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] User and Desktop management

2007-09-04 Thread Rob Owens
You don't necessarily need to prevent users from accessing anything because the default file permissions keep users from screwing up anything important. But if you want to keep certain users from accessing, say, firefox, then you could make the firefox binary executable only by the group firefox.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Fw: How to keep X from consuming all available client RAM

2007-09-07 Thread Rob Owens
Does this work in LTSP 4.2, or just 5.0? Jim Kronebusch wrote: -- Forwarded Message --- From: Jim Kronebusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 14:03:04 -0500 Subject: How to keep X from consuming all available client RAM Here is another tip

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ies4linux, shockwave and thin clients

2007-09-10 Thread Rob Owens
Maybe you could find companies to donate their old Windows licenses to you. Surely somebody must have a box of win95, nt, 98 cds laying around. -Rob Asmo Koskinen wrote: Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: I can use one and only shockwaved web-service, that our school needs (and pays), with

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Keeping sessions open?

2007-09-11 Thread Rob Owens
I find that it definitely is. It's noticeable when doing things like opening menus and scrolling through spreadsheets. -Rob Krsnendu dasa wrote: Is NX really faster than VNC on a LAN? On 03/09/07, Anton Vaaranmaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fredrik Kjellman kirjoitti: Hi, I'm

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB mouse to fast, X_MOUSE_RESOLUTION ignored

2007-09-18 Thread Rob Owens
I've got the same issue on LTSP 4.2 with a PS/2 mouse. X_MOUSE_PROTOCOL = ImPS/2 X_MOUSE_DEVICE = /dev/psaux Any suggestions how to slow it down? -Rob Gideon Romm wrote: set: X_USBMOUSE_DEVICE = /dev/null in your lts.conf. This is, unfortunately, an old and never corrected bug in 4.2...

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] keeping homes in sync.

2007-09-20 Thread Rob Owens
Is there a way to make a local machine see a network share as a block device? If there is, then you could conceivably use software RAID 1 with a network drive and the local drive. This seems like it would work properly if 1) both drives are working and network connections are good, or 2) one

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB mouse to fast, X_MOUSE_RESOLUTION ignored

2007-09-21 Thread Rob Owens
Stephan Mueller wrote: * Rob Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] [18.09.2007]: I've got the same issue on LTSP 4.2 with a PS/2 mouse. X_MOUSE_PROTOCOL = ImPS/2 X_MOUSE_DEVICE = /dev/psaux Any suggestions how to slow it down? not really. Did you check the output of 'xset q' for acceleration

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and rdesktop

2007-10-11 Thread Rob Owens
Jim Kronebusch wrote: On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:28:18 -0500, Kevin Blackwell wrote OK, I've tried rdesktop on FC6 and Ubuntu, and I cannot get rdesktop to run. Can someone point me to a distribution and version of ltsp that they are using if they have successfully got it running. As a side

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and rdesktop

2007-10-23 Thread Rob Owens
A tar file of my /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/screen.d directory is attached. I created two additional screens: startx.wait and rdesktop.wait. These simply request the user to hit enter before loading X. This helps me control which screen comes up first on a terminal. -Rob Kevin Blackwell wrote: OK,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5

2007-11-01 Thread Rob Owens
Ondrej Valousek wrote: - if more X servers are running (screen_03, _04...) simultaneously, they sometimes interfere between each other in a funny way (again not probably ltsp developers fault, but...). Check this thread and see if it helps you. It's LTSP 4.2 related, but may apply to LTSP

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB mouse to fast, X_MOUSE_RESOLUTION ignored

2007-11-02 Thread Rob Owens
See this thread, it fixed it for me: http://marc.info/?l=ltsp-discussm=119038907208692w=2 -Rob Stephan Mueller wrote: Hi, i have got an Logitech USB mouse attached to my client (ltsp 4.2). The mouse pointer is very (too) fast. Whatever i set X_MOUSE_RESOLUTION to (50, 400, 800) the speed

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB mouse to fast, X_MOUSE_RESOLUTION ignored

2007-11-02 Thread Rob Owens
Whoops, I just realized that I responded to an old thread by accident. Disregard. -Rob Rob Owens wrote: See this thread, it fixed it for me: http://marc.info/?l=ltsp-discussm=119038907208692w=2 -Rob Stephan Mueller wrote: Hi, i have got an Logitech USB mouse attached to my client

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5

2007-11-02 Thread Rob Owens
wrote: Yes, I have had a similar symptoms. The only thing I do not understand, is why should I load framebuffer modules to fix this problem. Why (and how) is it working? Thanks, Ondrej Rob Owens wrote: Ondrej Valousek wrote: - if more X servers are running (screen_03, _04

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rdesktop

2007-11-08 Thread Rob Owens
See this thread: http://marc.info/?l=ltsp-discussm=119315362029010w=2 You should be able to download a tarball of the scripts there. If not, email me and I'll send them directly to you. -Rob Pietro Leone wrote: Hallo, I use ltsp on an ubuntu 7.04, how can I configure some clients to connect

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 with Netvista 2200 clients

2007-11-09 Thread Rob Owens
Adam, I don't know the answer to your question. But if you don't get an answer on this list, you can also try the K12LTSP list. There are quite a few Edubuntu users/experimenters on there. -Rob Adam Drake wrote: Hi, I'm a school teacher in a large secondary school in the UK. As part of a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Success booting powerpc -- mostly.

2007-11-09 Thread Rob Owens
I don't have much experience w/ LTSP 5, but in 4.2 the lts.conf file controls mostly X-related stuff. The top of the file contains defaults, and down below you can specify per-client options like Jim Kronebusch described. The per-client options can done by either MAC address or by hostname. You

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Booting from local device

2007-11-09 Thread Rob Owens
I think you should look into using FreeNX server for your sessions over T1. You'll need to boot some sort of minimal local operating system (using LTSP, a live cd, a usb stick, or something else), then load the NX Client and run all the applications on the remote server. -Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] booting with NTLDR

2007-11-13 Thread Rob Owens
Robert Arkiletian wrote: On Nov 12, 2007 12:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Any suggestion about booting a LTSP client using the hard drive and the partition in which XP is installed? I tried putting an etherboot .com file in C: and modifying boot.ini adding the line

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] dhcpcd failed, Question about how to use ports 1067-8

2007-12-05 Thread Rob Owens
K12LTSP is Fedora/CentOS based. On a Debian-based system, I'm not sure if there's a file that specifies the port number. The first place I'd check, though, is in /etc/defaults and after that I'd run 'locate dhcp' and look for a file there that might contain that information. -Rob Amos Batto

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Long Range Ethernet

2008-01-08 Thread Rob Owens
Christopher Roberts wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008 20:46, Michael Blinn wrote: Hello LTSPers - Interesting conundrum. I have two buildings that I'd like to run off a single LTSP server. The two buildings are currently bridged (same subnet) via a dry pair and have ethernet-extenders on

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 and non-ssh authentication

2008-01-08 Thread Rob Owens
I'm trying to set up LTSP 5 on a server that allows ssh access from the internet, and as such I disallow password authentication. This seems to conflict with LTSP 5, though. Is it possible to authenticate by means other than ssh? -Rob

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] booting stalled

2008-01-08 Thread Rob Owens
Sebastien Koechlin wrote: On Jan 8, 2008 10:03 AM, Oliver Grawert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, On Mo, 2008-01-07 at 21:31 +0200, Asmo Koskinen wrote: While LTSP development is focused on LTSP 5, I would argue that there's not a significant benefit *to users* of version 5 over version 4.2.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem with x

2008-01-08 Thread Rob Owens
jam wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 04:36 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi ! after much trouble i am able to get a ubuntu login screen on my fedora 8 machine . i was told that ubuntu uses inetd while fedora uses xinetd . is this the why i am not able to login ? every time i login in it

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Term 1000 PXE and LTSP 5

2008-01-11 Thread Rob Owens
I see on www.disklessworkstations.com that the boot times for this thin client with LTSP 5 are pretty long. I tried it today and not only is the boot time long, but the graphics are extremely sluggish once logged in. Is this something that is expected to improve with further development of

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 and non-ssh authentication

2008-01-11 Thread Rob Owens
Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:25:58 -0500 Rob Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up LTSP 5 on a server that allows ssh access from the internet, and as such I disallow password authentication. This seems to conflict with LTSP 5, though. Is it possible

[Ltsp-discuss] LDM_DIRECTX gives me gray screen with X

2008-01-11 Thread Rob Owens
I tried putting: LDM_DIRECTX=True in my lts.conf file, and I get a gray screen with an X for the mouse pointer. I'm using Ubuntu 7.10. I have an unusual setup in that my LTSP 4.2 server is doing dhcp and tftp for the LTSP 5 server. Everything was working properly, though, before I tried

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 and non-ssh authentication

2008-01-14 Thread Rob Owens
Denis Cardon wrote: Hi Rob, I'm trying to set up LTSP 5 on a server that allows ssh access from the internet, and as such I disallow password authentication. This seems to conflict with LTSP 5, though. Is it possible to authenticate by means other than ssh? I use LTSP 4.2 ,disallow

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 cannot login

2008-01-14 Thread Rob Owens
I had this problem and it was because I had previously tweaked sshd_config to disallow password authentication. You need to make sure password authentication is enabled and that you haven't blocked your test user from using ssh. All traffic, including login, is done via ssh in LTSP 5. (By

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDM_DIRECTX gives me gray screen with X

2008-01-14 Thread Rob Owens
Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, On Fr, 2008-01-11 at 14:18 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I tried putting: LDM_DIRECTX=True in my lts.conf file, and I get a gray screen with an X for the mouse pointer. I'm using Ubuntu 7.10. try setting LDM_SERVER or SERVER in your lts.conf to actually point

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDM_DIRECTX gives me gray screen with X

2008-01-14 Thread Rob Owens
Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, On Fr, 2008-01-11 at 14:18 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I tried putting: LDM_DIRECTX=True in my lts.conf file, and I get a gray screen with an X for the mouse pointer. I'm using Ubuntu 7.10. try setting LDM_SERVER or SERVER in your lts.conf to actually point

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 and non-ssh authentication

2008-01-14 Thread Rob Owens
Xavier Brochard wrote: On 2008-01-11 15:24:11 +0100 Rob Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:25:58 -0500 Rob Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up LTSP 5 on a server that allows ssh access from the internet, and as such I disallow

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Term 1000 PXE and LTSP 5

2008-01-14 Thread Rob Owens
driver work it could be a decent LTSP 5 client. -Rob Rob Owens wrote: I see on www.disklessworkstations.com that the boot times for this thin client with LTSP 5 are pretty long. I tried it today and not only is the boot time long, but the graphics are extremely sluggish once logged

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Term 1000 PXE and LTSP 5

2008-01-14 Thread Rob Owens
Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, On Mo, 2008-01-14 at 07:55 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: Conclusion (so far): I wouldn't recommend using one of these with LTSP 5 right now. But it's not that far off from being acceptable, and I bet with some video driver work it could be a decent LTSP 5 client. did

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDM_DIRECTX gives me gray screen with X

2008-01-14 Thread Rob Owens
Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, On Mo, 2008-01-14 at 07:43 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: By the way, I notice that now (after enabling LDM_DIRECTX) my clients don't have the power off and restart options that they had before. Is that normal or is it something else specific to my setup? the one

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDM_DIRECTX gives me gray screen with X

2008-01-15 Thread Rob Owens
Rob Owens wrote: Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, On Mo, 2008-01-14 at 08:01 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I meant the one on the login screen. Should it still be there with LDM_DIRECTX enabled? yup, it should be among the options in the menu on the bottom left of the login screen (its hardcoded, so i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDM_DIRECTX gives me gray screen with X

2008-01-15 Thread Rob Owens
Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, On Di, 2008-01-15 at 07:14 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: Turns out I had SCREEN_07=startx which, as I learned this morning, is not proper for LTSP 5. I guess my LTSP 4.2 habits die hard... its not not proper but will actually only give you X ... no security, sound

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5 documentation

2008-01-16 Thread Rob Owens
I read some of this yesterday--particularly the Customizing thin client behavior section. It was very helpful, but I was left wondering why it was not included in my LTSP package (at least chapter 3 Edubuntu Server and Thin Client Computing) I had been looking in my /opt/ltsp tree for some

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Xfce panel missing on terminal

2008-01-22 Thread Rob Owens
Are you sure it's related to the user account, or is it related to the thin client. I had a problem w/ the XFCE panel not showing up on a particular video card (can't remember which one it was). -Rob J. Paul Bissonnette wrote: Very small setup running Debian testing LTSP 4.2, server and a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 with ESD

2008-01-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 08:25:16PM +0100, SZABO Zsolt wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Rob Owens wrote: Does ESD work with LTSP 5 or do I need PulseAudio? I'm running Debian Etch with the LTSP 5 packages from http://pkg-ltsp.alioth.debian.org/debian and I can't get PulseAudio configured

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 with ESD

2008-01-25 Thread Rob Owens
Does ESD work with LTSP 5 or do I need PulseAudio? I'm running Debian Etch with the LTSP 5 packages from http://pkg-ltsp.alioth.debian.org/debian and I can't get PulseAudio configured properly. -Rob - This SF.net email

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 and 4.2 on the same server

2008-01-25 Thread Rob Owens
= startx -Rob On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 02:28:32PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: Just reporting on my success... After using LTSP 4.2 for a few years, I tried out LTSP 5 at home and found that it didn't work properly with some of my old Pentium 2 thin clients. So I downloaded LTSP 4.2

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Sound module for CS5535 chipset

2008-02-05 Thread Rob Owens
I believe module is snd-cs5535audio You might need to install the esd+ALSA package here: http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WorkInProgress#esd_ALSA_sound_on_LTSP_4_2 If you're using the SYM1110 and SYM1112 thin clients (like I am), in order to avoid specifying the modules manually you

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Out of disc space?

2008-02-06 Thread Rob Owens
Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: Martin Woolley schrieb: On Tuesday 05 February 2008 23:27, jam wrote: Rolf why did you partition your disks eg /usr etc because 'you can' is cute etc but you'll need to start again. In general don't partition your disks (in many pieces) unless you need to, and if

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Bolt on LCD Monitor LTSP Terminal

2008-02-08 Thread Rob Owens
Jim Kronebusch wrote: On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:46:56 -0800, Casey Mynott wrote Hello all, I am doing up a proposal for my school district in regards to getting funds to setup some terminals in my classroom. What I am looking for is a terminal that bolts to the back of a 19 LCD monitor that can

[Ltsp-discuss] troubleshooting boot problems

2008-03-02 Thread Rob Owens
I'm having boot problems with LTSP 5 on some old thin clients. Is there a procedure written down, or a log file at least, that I should start with for troubleshooting? I'm using Debian Etch and the etch-ltsp-backports packages. -Rob

[Ltsp-discuss] 2 instances of ssh

2008-03-05 Thread Rob Owens
I'd like to run 2 instances of ssh on my LTSP 5 server, so that I may disallow password authentication from the internet. I know I can compile from source for the 2nd instance, but is there any way of using Ubuntu's openssh-server package for both instances? Can I somehow tell the package to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 2 instances of ssh

2008-03-05 Thread Rob Owens
files. - Specify your different ports/interfaces in those configs and you should be golden. -Michael Rob Owens wrote: I'd like to run 2 instances of ssh on my LTSP 5 server, so that I may disallow password authentication from the internet. I know I can compile from source for the 2nd

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] troubleshooting boot problems

2008-03-10 Thread Rob Owens
: Well.. I configure the lts.conf to init in RUNLEVEL = 2 so I can have a text terminal all the time... Start with his.. ;) 2008/3/2, Rob Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm having boot problems with LTSP 5 on some old thin clients. Is there a procedure written down, or a log file at least

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] troubleshooting boot problems

2008-03-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:10:06AM +0100, SZABO Zsolt wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Rob Owens wrote: Good advice! I did this, and my thin client boots to a text login no problem. So I guess I have a graphics issue. Where can I find a log file for this? I've searched /var and /opt/ltsp

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] troubleshooting boot problems

2008-03-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:10:06AM +0100, SZABO Zsolt wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Rob Owens wrote: Good advice! I did this, and my thin client boots to a text login no problem. So I guess I have a graphics issue. Where can I find a log file for this? I've searched /var and /opt/ltsp

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] GDM / X = gray screen when no internet

2008-03-21 Thread Rob Owens
LTSP 5 or 4.2? Does your lts.conf file use hostnames or IP addresses? -Rob On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 03:02:48PM -0400, Alfred Nutile wrote: I noticed this on the web sites troubleshooting area on some occasions, when there is no Internet link or the link is very slo. workstations

[Ltsp-discuss] recommend a video card

2008-03-22 Thread Rob Owens
I have a P3 machine to use as a thin client, but it needs a video card. It's got an AGP 4x slot. Could anybody recommend a decent card for it? I need to run a 22 widescreen monitor, so I can't use any of the cards from my junkpile. With all the recent activity from ATI (releasing specs to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 2 instances of ssh

2008-03-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 01:31:50PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Mittwoch, den 05.03.2008, 13:44 -0500 schrieb Rob Owens: I'd like to run 2 instances of ssh on my LTSP 5 server, so that I may disallow password authentication from the internet. I know I can compile from source

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wyse S50

2008-04-09 Thread Rob Owens
Andy Royer wrote: I am using Ubuntu 7.10 and LTSP 5. I have 2 thin clients, a Micro Client Senior and a Wyse S50. The Micro Client starts up no problem, but the Wyse S50 hangs when Starting the LTSP client. CTRL+ALT+F1 doesn't do anything. I tried setting the SCREEN_01 = shell, but that

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Disable Update notifications on thin clients?

2008-04-19 Thread Rob Owens
In the gconf-editor as root, you can find a key called /apps/update-notifier and check no_show_notifications. Then make it default and/or mandatory -- this applies it to all users. Then you can uncheck it for root only or for any other users you log in as (as long as you didn't use mandatory,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Disable Update notifications on thin clients?

2008-04-19 Thread Rob Owens
it and choose set as default or set as mandatory. Then you can change the value of the key for the root user if you want to receive notifications. -Rob On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:40:12AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: In the gconf-editor as root, you can find a key called /apps/update-notifier

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Volume control with pulseaudio?

2008-04-21 Thread Rob Owens
There's a separate application for that. I think it might be pavucontrol or something like that. -Rob On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 03:43:52PM +0200, Peter Stein wrote: Hey, is there any way to control the volume with using pulseaudio? E.g. I don't have access to alsamixer anymore while

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 2 instances of ssh

2008-05-09 Thread Rob Owens
Rob Owens wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 01:31:50PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Mittwoch, den 05.03.2008, 13:44 -0500 schrieb Rob Owens: I'd like to run 2 instances of ssh on my LTSP 5 server, so that I may disallow password authentication from the internet. I know I can compile

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 2 instances of ssh

2008-05-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:09:11PM -0600, David Burgess wrote: On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Rob Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Owens wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 01:31:50PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Mittwoch, den 05.03.2008, 13:44 -0500 schrieb Rob Owens: I'd like

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] a virtual ltsp server?

2008-05-19 Thread Rob Owens
I ran an ubuntu-hardy LTSP server in a VirtualBox virtual machine. It worked, but I only did it as a test. I never put any real load on it. -Rob Cindy Murdock wrote: Hi list, A colleague and I were throwing about ideas, and the thought came up of using a vmware image as an LTSP server,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NUMLOCK on at boot, howto change...

2008-06-10 Thread Rob Owens
Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: Verner Kjærsgaard schrieb: Hi list (again) - it's slightly annoying that the numlock is ON on my ThinkPads when used as clients agains LTSP4.2 - the users often can't figure out to get if off, thus making it difficult for them to type in correct passwords etc.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] an procedure to get massive information from PCs using ltsp

2008-06-11 Thread Rob Owens
I have no direct experience with this type of software, but there are software packages available to perform inventory of your network. There was a discussion a few months back on the k12ltsp email list. One that sticks in my head is called OCS Inventory. -Rob Agustín Benito wrote: Good

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5 LDAP

2008-06-12 Thread Rob Owens
I don't think you need those installed in the chroot. You need them installed in the server's main system. The chroot doesn't handle your user authentication, as far as I understand. (Unless you're trying to login to the terminal itself). -Rob Markus Jalonen wrote: I'm curious to know,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin Client Hardware

2008-06-19 Thread Rob Owens
I usually look first to the companies who contribute software to LTSP, like www.disklessworkstations.com and www.thesymbiont.com I have a few SYM1112 units from www.thesymbiont.com and I like them. -Rob Sean Carte wrote: Does anybody have recommendations regarding thin client hardware for

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP vs. Embedded Linux OS Thin Client

2008-06-23 Thread Rob Owens
I spoke to Gideon Romm and Symbio Technologies (www.thesymbiont.com) a while back and he mentioned having a product that would allow local booting of a basic operating system, which then provides a remote connection to a full operating system. I think it was able to use ssh, VNC, RDP, or NX

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] New Client Hardware

2008-07-16 Thread Rob Owens
Anton Vaaranmaa wrote: Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti: Anton Vaaranmaa kirjoitti: I'd like to have a CD/DVD drive for the new ones, so I guess what I need now is falling somewhere between traditional thin client terminals and fatter clients, but i wouldn't want to go fat client all out. Why? For

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Debian 4.0 and LTSP 5: unable to build clients

2008-08-04 Thread Rob Owens
You could use VirtualBox on Debian in order to get the Ubuntu environment. By the way, Debian testing is now frozen and the plan (so far) is to have a new release in September. So you may want to consider using Debian testing for now if you're just experimenting. Another good reason to do

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Symbio clients and Hardy Heron.

2008-08-07 Thread Rob Owens
I'm having trouble with this as well. I have a fully-updated Hardy 64-bit system. It's not a fresh install, but I did a fresh build of the chroot environment, following the instructions below. My SYM1112 units won't boot to completion (I even left one going overnight). They hang somewhere

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Server Name Location

2008-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
I wouldn't do that. custom.conf only contains the changes, and not the entire config. Try running the GUI configuration: gdmsetup -Rob Ryan Stepalavich wrote: We don't have an /etc/gdm/custom.conf, but we do have an /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf. The thing is, the hostname and welcome message

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Symbio clients and Hardy Heron.

2008-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
to edit them. Usplash causes problems for the Symbios. If you see the Ubuntu progress bar on the symbios while they boot up, they will hang. Editing out the word splash- will get you the text based boot sequence. --Patrick - Original Message - From: Rob Owens [mailto

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp 5 ignoring lts.conf?

2008-08-11 Thread Rob Owens
SZABO Zsolt wrote: On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Tom Knowles wrote: I posted previously re elo touchscreen not working. However, when I add SCREEN_07=shell to (var/lib/tftpboot...) lts.conf it has no effect, I lts.conf should be in ltsp chroot, typically in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/, AFAIK. Here,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Connect Canon Powershot G1 to thinclient

2008-08-15 Thread Rob Owens
You could try using a USB card reader. That's what I do on some of my thin clients when I need to access my pictures. -Rob J. Paul Bissonnette wrote: Thanks Keep on hacking :-) The G1 is quite old. It can not, as far as I know, be access as an USB storage device, F-Spot can access it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Setting the default screen in lts.conf?

2008-08-26 Thread Rob Owens
Whichever server (LTSP or Windows) produces a GUI first will be seen first on the terminal. You can control it by modifying the screen scripts. See this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net/msg32457.html -Rob On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:22:46PM -0500, Tim

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