Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 3d desktop

2007-02-14 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Xavier, I read your post and the original text with great interest. Xavier Brochard schrieb: See my previous post: Jeff Waugh talk about thin client (copy= below). But this is a matter of the future, isn't it? I mean, when can we expect it to be implemented in a way that is usable for

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 3d desktop

2007-02-14 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Ben Green schrieb: On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:04:15 -, Rolf-Werner Eilert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So to me this thing seems to be a matter of interaction between Xorg and drivers and a smart way of including them into LTSP - a thing of the future. There are some element of the article

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 3d desktop

2007-02-14 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Xavier Brochard schrieb: see this page for a comprehensive view of supported hardware (2006/10/14): http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1797 Le mercredi 14 février 2007 13:04, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit : Currently, I have only one LTSP terminal here with a graphics card which would

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Windows programs on LTSP

2007-02-16 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
How many users need to operate this special Windows application simultaneously? -Joe Bill Alsbury schrieb: Theoretically up to 20, practically probably 3 or 4 Cheers Bill In this case, I would try a VM. VMware will be the most mature product in the market, but I don't

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] I have a dream ... (for school situation)

2007-02-19 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
bushtor schrieb: Hi, Please bear with me if if the request / idea below is not appropriate for this list. I'm working in a school's IT dept. Every day we get requests from teachers asking for possibilities to avoid students 'misusing' their notebooks in the class situation. They play

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Fl_TeacherTool 0.40 Released

2007-02-21 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Robert Arkiletian schrieb: Just wanted to let the list know this problem was solved. It was a language issue. Maybe someone else might find this useful. -- Forwarded message -- [...] Result of your command: netstat -t -e -n|grep :6000| grep ESTABELECIDA |sed -e 's/:/ /g'|

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Fl_TeacherTool 0.40 Released

2007-02-22 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Richard Bos schrieb: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:34:51AM +0100, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: Robert Arkiletian schrieb: Just wanted to let the list know this problem was solved. It was a language issue. Maybe someone else might find this useful. -- Forwarded message

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Reason not to use LTSP

2007-03-06 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Thanks for the links, but neither seems to have any affiliates in Sweden, so I'd have to find out rather a lot of info on freight, import procedures, import VAT, how guarantees and support are handled, whether documentation exists in Swedish etc. etc., not to mention currency fluctuations

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] shutdown a terminal with ltspinfod (dapper / ltsp4.2) doesn't work right

2007-03-07 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Nadav Kavalerchik schrieb: i have the same issue on only one of our workstations in the lab. weird ? i think it's the hardware ? it's a mix class of many P1 P2 from different hardware manufacturers and all shutdown cleanly, except this one. (we use KDE thou) On 2/20/07, *George

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-07 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Noel schrieb: balwant singh wrote: On 2/27/07, *Noel* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tadeu F. Oliveira wrote: Hi, Everybody does anyone have tried LTSP with some kind of load balance? Is there any try to use LTSP with OpenMosix or something such?

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-08 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Noel schrieb: Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: [...] This is really a very good idea, but I see one more problem. From time to time you will want to update software on the server. If you update the software, some apps might write their data in another, new way and users logging in to the other

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-08 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Chris Fanning schrieb: Hi, Last year in a summer school we setup two xen installations on two different boxes running instances of the same virtual machines (ltsp servers and app servers). We spread out load with dhcp as mentioned and the homes were mounted on a third box. It worked really

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] who output

2007-03-12 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Sudev Barar schrieb: On 12/03/07, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When someone is logged in on the terminal, a lot of the time they don't appear in the output of the w and who command. Try: last|grep stil Why not? This is something I kept on trying but did not fully understand,

[Ltsp-discuss] Finding terminals in standby mode

2007-04-17 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Hi all, I've made a small monitoring app that scans two lists to see 1) which terminal is in standby mode or off or 2) which terminal is in use and by whom The latter is simple, you just have to parse who. The first thing was somewhat trickier, and eventually I used ps aux for it. The

[Ltsp-discuss] Chip Card readers for login

2007-04-25 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Just had an idea: Would it be possible to replace the ordinary login procedure via login manager (xdm, kdm, gdm...) by a chip card reader? We are discussing a way of making thin clients available within the ordinary classrooms for the teacher to make classbook entries etc. For this limited

[Ltsp-discuss] Starting second X session to another server

2007-05-02 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Hi folks, As far as I remember, when I assembled our first LTSP server, I used X -query host-IP:1 to start a second X session on my PC to the new server in order to configure it. Later I could do away my desktop PC and now I have an LTSP terminal like all the others. For our new server, I

[Ltsp-discuss] Is LTSP 4.2 able to start 2nd X session?

2007-05-07 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Hi folks, As nobody seems to have an answer to my question, here it is again, in slightly different form: I'm booting up and log in on my LTSP terminal as usual. So now I'm connected to my server. Now I'd like to make a connection to another server. A few years ago, I did the same by

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Is LTSP 4.2 able to start 2nd X session?

2007-05-07 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Andy Rabagliati schrieb: On Mon, 07 May 2007, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: I'm booting up and log in on my LTSP terminal as usual. So now I'm connected to my server. Now I'd like to make a connection to another server. A few years ago, I did the same by invoking X -query

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Is LTSP 4.2 able to start 2nd X session?

2007-05-08 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
You're right James, [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: You're starting X within X ??? AND a terminal window is THE SERVER not the client. (wrong terminology - talking LTSP not X-server where X-server == client and X-client == server) I got it mixed up a bit :-) I didn't think of my terminal as a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Is LTSP 4.2 able to start 2nd X session?

2007-05-08 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Vanya schrieb: Are you running X -query some.ip from console running in X? If so - then you get your another screen, but on server ;) Aaargh - got it mixed up, thanks for the hint :-) Please run X on client terminal. There IS X binary, but you just need to specify the full path and also

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Is LTSP 4.2 able to start 2nd X session?

2007-05-09 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: What I did was make a startq based on startx and had the second session startq with suitable parameters 'query :1 etc' This works perfectly Brilliant! I browsed through my startx and found about some places where to make changes. Unfortunately, I cannot make

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on SuSE 10

2007-05-10 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Stuart Murray-Smith schrieb: Hi list I'm finding my way around LTSP SuSE 10.0... so pls bear with me :-) I need to configure a USB printer on an LTSP terminal. I've: rpm -qa | grep ltsp to find which ver of LTSP, and yield nothing. How can I find what ver it is if it was make

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Is LTSP 4.2 able to start 2nd X session?

2007-05-11 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Anselm Martin Hoffmeister schrieb: Am Montag, den 07.05.2007, 12:54 +0200 schrieb Rolf-Werner Eilert: I would need it to be running on the two screens at the same time, i. e. switching from server1 to server2 by just invoking Ctrl-Alt-F1 or F2. I'm sitting in my office here, and I need

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Different client OS from server

2007-05-16 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Morning folks, Just one question following your discussion, I don't quote as it doesn't refer directly to my issue: Does someone know a way to show specific display managers (xdm, kdm, gdm...) to specific terminals? Or if not possible, is there a way to have at least different settings of one

[Ltsp-discuss] DHCP fails on Suse 10.2/LTSP 4.2

2007-07-16 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Hi everyone, I've got a new server here to be equipped with LTSP. There is a Suse 10.2 running on this machine. I can log in via X from my terminal to the old server like from a big client. After setting up LTSP 4.2 and copying (from the old server) and editing (new IPs etc.) all the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCP fails on Suse 10.2/LTSP 4.2

2007-07-16 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Verner Kjærsgaard schrieb: Mandag 16 juli 2007 08:51 skrev Rolf-Werner Eilert: Hi everyone, I've got a new server here to be equipped with LTSP. There is a Suse 10.2 running on this machine. I can log in via X from my terminal to the old server like from a big client. After setting up LTSP

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCP fails on Suse 10.2/LTSP 4.2

2007-07-17 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Perseu schrieb: Message: 1 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:51:26 +0200 From: Rolf-Werner Eilert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCP fails on Suse 10.2/LTSP 4.2 To: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format

[Ltsp-discuss] Dell Optiplex not switched off remotely

2007-09-13 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Hi everyone, I've got a number of Dell Optiplex GX 110 as terminals and found it's impossible to switch them off via ltspinfo -h ws042 -s for example. After waiting for a while, there comes the answer Couldn't open connection to ws042:9200: Invalid argument With all the other newer

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Dell Optiplex not switched off remotely

2007-09-14 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Friday 14 September 2007 03:13:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I've got a number of Dell Optiplex GX 110 as terminals and found it's impossible to switch them off via ltspinfo -h ws042 -s for example. After waiting for a while, there comes the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Dell Optiplex not switched off remotely

2007-09-14 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Klaus Ade Johnstad schrieb: Torsdag 13 september 2007 13:07, skrev Rolf-Werner Eilert: Hi everyone, I've got a number of Dell Optiplex GX 110 as terminals and found it's impossible to switch them off via ltspinfo -h ws042 -s for example. After waiting for a while, there comes the answer

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Dell Optiplex not switched off remotely

2007-09-17 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Klaus Ade Johnstad schrieb: Torsdag 13 september 2007 13:07, skrev Rolf-Werner Eilert: Hi everyone, I've got a number of Dell Optiplex GX 110 as terminals and found it's impossible to switch them off via ltspinfo -h ws042 -s for example. After waiting for a while, there comes the answer

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Dell Optiplex not switched off remotely

2007-09-17 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Friday 14 September 2007 03:13:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I've got a number of Dell Optiplex GX 110 as terminals and found it's impossible to switch them off via ltspinfo -h ws042 -s for example. After waiting for a while, there comes the

[Ltsp-discuss] DPMS or Keep monitors from switching off

2007-10-09 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Hi folks, I'm still looking for a way to keep monitors from switching off (I guess it's DPMS that does it) when only KDM shows. (Once the user is logged in, it's easier to prevent this.) Once upon a time, on our old and current server, I got this fixed, but now with the new one I just can't

[Ltsp-discuss] Annoying DPMS with kdm

2007-10-10 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Still trying to get rid of DPMS when kdm is shown. As nobody answered my previous post here, I tried around the whole day with different settings for DPMS in the configuration files. I guess build_x4_cfg is responsible for this setting with LTSP, so I changed it to write Option DPMS false

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Annoying DPMS with kdm

2007-10-11 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Thursday 11 October 2007 03:13:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still trying to get rid of DPMS when kdm is shown. KDM is probably resetting the dpms setting somehow. IMHO, why not leave it on, and help save the planet by reducing electricity requirements?

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Annoying DPMS with kdm

2007-10-12 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
to change settings in kde configuration center/peripherals/display/power control ? You can also check the bios settings and the monitor's parameters. Hope this help Le Thursday 11 October 2007 12:22:55 Rolf-Werner Eilert, vous avez écrit : [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Thursday 11 October 2007

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 2 DHCP server in one subnet

2007-11-28 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Fajar Priyanto schrieb: Hello all, In the network there is already a W2K server serving as DHCP server for the network. Then we want to implement LTSP, so we need to setup another DHCP server, right? Due to unexpected reason (little by little migration of w98 clients to LTSP), we need

[Ltsp-discuss] Out of disc space?

2008-02-04 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Hi folks, I tried a brand new Debian etch with the option to make several partitions for /home, /usr etc. When running ltsp-build-client --dist etch after a while it will run out of disc space and abort. I guess it tries to assemble the image in / cause this is the only partition which is

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

2008-02-06 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
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 you need to you will

[Ltsp-discuss] two different icons for localdevs

2008-02-16 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Hi folks, just set up localdevs on Suse 10.3 with ltsp 4.2, it's up and running. Awesome job you did, guys :-) Now I just wonder if it's possible to have different icons for the folders, i. e. a floppy icon and a usb-stick icon for instance. Didn't find it on the wiki. Has nobody missed this

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] two different icons for localdevs

2008-02-18 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Asmo Koskinen schrieb: Rolf-Werner Eilert kirjoitti: Didn't find it on the wiki. Has nobody missed this yet? Maybe this one? http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LTSP-42-LocalDev#Replacing_the_default_icon_with Best Regards Asmo Koskinen. No Asmo, I found this and it works

[Ltsp-discuss] How much Swap is sensible?

2008-03-06 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Hi folks, As I'm building a new server, there is the question of the quantity of swap space given to the terminals. The terminals all have 512 MB RAM. Up to now, we have 512 MB swap. Would it make sense to give them 1024 MB instead, or would that have side-effects like longer response times

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How much Swap is sensible?

2008-03-06 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
MB Ram is heaps for a terminal. Probably don't need any swap. On 06/03/2008, *Rolf-Werner Eilert* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, As I'm building a new server, there is the question of the quantity of swap space given to the terminals

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How much Swap is sensible?

2008-03-06 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
jam schrieb: On Friday 07 March 2008 05:12:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I'm building a new server, there is the question of the quantity of swap space given to the terminals. The terminals all have 512 MB RAM. Up to now, we have 512 MB swap. Would it make sense to give them 1024 MB

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Crossover Office licensing

2008-05-06 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Richard Doyle schrieb: We're considering using Crossover Linux Professional in our small (18 workstations) Edubuntu 7.04 (based on LTSP 5) classroom system. The workstations are all thin clients; all applications run on the server. How many Crossover licenses would we need to purchase to

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

2008-06-10 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
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. - where can I specify

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SuSE 11.0 Kiwi-LTSP and Etherboot clients?

2008-07-02 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Back in the good ol' days of LTSP 3, I managed to have clients booting from three different flavours of LTSP, each the one it could run best on. There were clients which needed special versions to be able to boot or run, newer versions didn't run on them. Well, I don't know if it's really

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Quick Silly Question

2008-07-03 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Carl schrieb: I am relatively new to LTSP and have what I am sure is a silly question. How exactly do you install new software to be used on the clients? I THOUGHT you did a chroot, apt-get, then ltsp-image-update, however apt-get reports it can't resolve host. Btw, I am attempting to get

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to install Nvidia software on clients

2008-07-03 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Hi Jason, Jason Maas schrieb: Hi Carl, On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Carl wrote: Normally what Rolf wrote is true, but I think in this case he didn't read your original email very carefully. Software like the drivers and configuration for video cards and clients actually will be running

[Ltsp-discuss] Mouse speed

2008-09-05 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
This is a question for LTSP 4.2 There are different types of optical mice here on my system, some of them have 400, some 800 dpi. For the faster ones, I defined X_MOUSE_RESOLUTION = 800 in lts.conf, but there is no effect at all. They still run rather fast. Is there any other way of achieving

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mouse speed

2008-09-05 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Frank Cox schrieb: On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:49:14 +0200 Rolf-Werner Eilert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any other way of achieving this, Depending on the Linux distribution that you're using, the users can probably set the mouse speed that they prefer themselves. On Fedora 8, you go

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Mouse speed

2008-09-30 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Rob Owens schrieb: Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: This is a question for LTSP 4.2 There are different types of optical mice here on my system, some of them have 400, some 800 dpi. For the faster ones, I defined X_MOUSE_RESOLUTION = 800 in lts.conf, but there is no effect at all. They still

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] A crisis of LTSP faith.

2008-10-01 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
And I saw once more the difference to a native speaker: didn't even notice any problem in that sentence, just accepting and understanding it... Still learning :-) Rolf David Burgess schrieb: Not that you were unclear, I just couldn't resist the opportunity to poke fun. db On Tue, Sep

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] A crisis of LTSP faith.

2008-10-04 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Rob Owens schrieb: be the next stable release. But you can stay with testing permanently, and it will be like a rolling release. You'll have frequent updates available. I find that I get about the same volume of updates with Testing as I do with Ubuntu 7.10 or 8.04. But the Debian Testing

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] A crisis of LTSP faith.

2008-10-04 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Jordan Erickson schrieb: Rob/all, I've been following this thread closely, and it seems a LOT of people are still on LTSP 4.2 and either CentOS or Debian. I have to ask, being an Ubuntu-only LTSP shop (right now, anyway) - are there issues regarding Firefox? OpenOffice? Crashes of any

[Ltsp-discuss] 2 issues with USB-Sticks on LTSP 4.2

2008-10-27 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Hi folks, This is simply a question if there's someone else out there who has seen the same things happen. However, if you have any solution... We've got USB-stick access here in our school for the students, the system on the server is Suse 10.3 (so it's relatively up-to-date), but sometimes

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

2008-11-17 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Hi folks, 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 switch to TFTs one day with more than 15, I will need that

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 2 issues with USB-Sticks on LTSP 4.2

2008-11-17 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
] Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: Hi folks, This is simply a question if there's someone else out there who has seen the same things happen. However, if you have any solution... We've got USB-stick access here in our school for the students, the system on the server is Suse 10.3 (so it's relatively

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

2008-11-17 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Frank Cox schrieb: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:55:06 +0900 jam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone here have ever got a Dell Optiplex GX110 running on SXGA (1280x1024) with LTSP 4.2? A quick google search indicates that may have an Intel onboard graphics controller. Accordingly, this may

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

2008-11-17 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
jam schrieb: 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

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 2 issues with USB-Sticks on LTSP 4.2

2008-11-19 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
: Rolf, what happens if you plug that USB stick into a Linux machine that ISN'T a thin client? This would rule out any LTSP specific issues. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: Hi folks, This is simply a question if there's someone else out there who has seen

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

2008-11-28 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Klaus Ade Johnstad schrieb: Mandag 17. november 2008 12:49, skrev Rolf-Werner Eilert: Hi folks, 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

[Ltsp-discuss] What about Firefox 3 + LTSP bug?

2008-12-18 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
What has become of this issue that Firefox 3 didn't run properly under terminal server conditions (mutual exclusion of PIDs and stuff like that)? Haven't heard anything about this for some time now - was it solved? Rolf

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Announcing openSUSE KIWI-LTSP 0.7.0

2009-01-30 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Jigish Gohil schrieb: Hello Community I am happy to announce the availability of KIWI-LTSP 0.7.0, LTSP5 implementation on openSUSE 11.1 using KIWI imaging technology. We are using LTSP 4.2 on an opensuse 10.3 server for our two PC labs and some other places in our school on about 50+

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Announcing openSUSE KIWI-LTSP 0.7.0

2009-01-30 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
CyberOrg schrieb: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Rolf-Werner Eilert eilert-sprac...@t-online.de wrote: Jigish Gohil schrieb: Hello Community I am happy to announce the availability of KIWI-LTSP 0.7.0, LTSP5 implementation on openSUSE 11.1 using KIWI imaging technology. We are using

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Article about LTSP and schools on front page of Linux.com

2009-06-08 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Really impressive to see how you got teachers' minds change. But meanwhile minds do begin to change. I have experienced this here too. Encouraging to see how the students prefer using Impress over PowerPoint etc. As to the issues with Firefox and LTSP mentioned in the article - did you mean

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Article about LTSP and schools on front page of Linux.com

2009-06-08 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
-Werner Eilert wrote: Really impressive to see how you got teachers' minds change. But meanwhile minds do begin to change. I have experienced this here too. Encouraging to see how the students prefer using Impress over PowerPoint etc. As to the issues with Firefox and LTSP mentioned

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cleaning up Processes - My Solution

2009-08-19 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Hi Keith, When the classes logout hundreds of processes are left open. Didn't know LTSP 5 would produce such weird things. We're running LTSP 4.2 and KDE on a Suse 10.3 with a very similar hardware as yours, and this is not a problem at all. Maybe it's Gnome? Rolf

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slow FireFox Solutions?

2009-10-09 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Jakob Unterwurzacher schrieb: HELP, if I cannot improve performance in the next few weeks, the teacher's protests will force me to abandon all LTSP at our district! You can try to install Firefox 2... Could work, but Firefox 2 is really old... I would install Opera ( http://www.opera.com/

[Ltsp-discuss] Second DHCP server on internet router

2009-12-07 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
In our LTSP environment, I cannot activate WLAN in the router because this would mean activating another DHCP router. As soon as it is activated, it will override (or outperform if you will) the DHCP server on the LTSP network. Sure, I can set limits for the IPs to be delivered by the WLAN

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Second DHCP server on internet router

2009-12-07 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ProxyDHCP Στις 07-12-2009, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 10:18 +0100, ο/η Rolf-Werner Eilert έγραψε: In our LTSP environment, I cannot activate WLAN in the router because this would mean activating another DHCP router. As soon as it is activated, it will override

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Second DHCP server on internet router

2009-12-07 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Ok, that makes it somewhat clearer to me :-) Thanks for the information, I'll see if it helps... Rolf Alkis Georgopoulos schrieb: Στις 07-12-2009, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 11:23 +0100, ο/η Rolf-Werner Eilert έγραψε: An interesting approach, but I do not see how the WLAN router could use

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Telecommuting Windows Programs with LTSP

2010-03-10 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
2. There is at least one software package that needs to be run that isn't a typical office program. I still need to find out more about it, but if it turns out there is only the windows version, what are my options for running it? Wine, a Windows Terminal Server dedicated to this software

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 4.2, still possible?

2010-04-26 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 21.04.2010 16:47, schrieb Verner Kjærsgaard: Trey Hunsucker skrev: Is there a reason that you're using OpenSuse? If you are able to, Ubuntu is worth trying at least in a test environment to see if it will possibly better suit your needs. Of course you could try debian or another distro

[Ltsp-discuss] First impression of LTSP5

2010-05-27 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
This might sound strange for some of you guys, but we're still working with LTSP 4.2 and a Suse 10.3 server. So I tried LTSP 5 on our system for the first time, using SuseEducation 11.2 and KIWI-LTSP 5. I prepared an older machine with a new system and set it up like described in the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] First impression of LTSP5

2010-05-27 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 27.05.2010 10:40, schrieb Jigish Gohil: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Rolf-Werner Eilert eilert-sprac...@t-online.de wrote: This might sound strange for some of you guys, but we're still working with LTSP 4.2 and a Suse 10.3 server. So I tried LTSP 5 on our system for the first time

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] First impression of LTSP5

2010-05-31 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
openSUSE's boot time is generally slower, on recent hardware it takes 40 seconds to LDM, on old hardware somewhere around 50 sec to 1.5 min. Ok, that's what I saw here. I just wanted to be sure it's not an exception. Regards Rolf

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-04 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Very interesting, especially the part with the symlinks is exactly what is important here. We are using crossover because I didn't have the time to dive so deeply into the world of wine tweaking :-) And crossover is doing it this way. Regards Rolf Am 04.10.2010 16:48, schrieb Reiner Schmid:

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

2010-11-16 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 17.11.2010 01:13, schrieb sm8ps-ltsp...@yahoo.com: Hello all! Hello Stefan, I would like to use LTSP specifically for exam settings in an introductory computer science class. The students have learned some basic system My goal is to have the students work individually on one and the

[Ltsp-discuss] One client going nuts randomly

2011-02-09 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Hi everyone, This is just the case when I don't know where to start :-) We are still running an older system with 4.2 based on a Suse 10.3. One of our clients (unfortunately, it's the one on the teacher's desk in one of the computer labs) sometimes (i. e. randomly) runs bust. Suddenly all

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] One client going nuts randomly

2011-02-10 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Thank you for your fast answer. Am 09.02.2011 12:25, schrieb Jigish Gohil: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Rolf-Werner Eilert eilert-sprac...@t-online.de wrote: Hi everyone, This is just the case when I don't know where to start :-) We are still running an older system with 4.2 based

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] One client going nuts randomly

2011-02-10 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 09.02.2011 12:31, schrieb Chris Roberts: On Wednesday 09 Feb 2011, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: One of our clients (unfortunately, it's the one on the teacher's desk in one of the computer labs) sometimes (i. e. randomly) runs bust. Suddenly all available applications will open and close

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] One client going nuts randomly

2011-02-10 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 10.02.2011 02:41, schrieb Rob Owens: On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:09:09PM +0100, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: Hi everyone, This is just the case when I don't know where to start :-) We are still running an older system with 4.2 based on a Suse 10.3. One of our clients (unfortunately, it's

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] One client going nuts randomly

2011-02-10 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 11.02.2011 00:22, schrieb Rob Owens: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:35:50AM +0100, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: Am 10.02.2011 02:41, schrieb Rob Owens: On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:09:09PM +0100, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: Hi everyone, This is just the case when I don't know where to start :-) We

[Ltsp-discuss] Graphics card for client and Xorg support

2011-02-25 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Good morning, When we update to the current LTSP version on a new server, I would like to have my own client in the office updated to a newer screen and graphics card. So, where can I see which graphics adapters the xorg version supports (it is Xorg, isn't it?) that is delivered by LTSP? Or

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Graphics card for client and Xorg support

2011-02-25 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 25.02.2011 10:00, schrieb JF Straeten: Re, On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:39:30AM +0100, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: So, where can I see which graphics adapters the xorg version supports (it is Xorg, isn't it?) that is delivered by LTSP? Or is the graphics of the host system used? LTSP's

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5 for openSuse11.4 64 bit

2011-03-18 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
As I have to set up a new server for 2 computer labs, I would like to do with latest software so it stays up-to-date for a while. Does anyone here know when LTSP5 (kiwi-ltsp) for openSuse 11.4 will be available? Or didn't I just find it? I also looked for an edu-life, but there is only a 11.3

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5 for openSuse11.4 64 bit

2011-03-21 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 19.03.2011 07:25, schrieb Jigish Gohil: On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert eilert-sprac...@t-online.de wrote: As I have to set up a new server for 2 computer labs, I would like to do with latest software so it stays up-to-date for a while. Does anyone here know when

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Openoffice Spreadsheet really sluggish on thin client

2011-05-06 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 05.05.2011 18:39, schrieb Horst Prote: Russell Brown wrote: Anyone know of any pointers to tuning oocalc when using it on a thin station (LTSP 4 if that's relevant). On even a modest spreadsheet it's really really slugish when dealing with blocks of cells. I had the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Openoffice Spreadsheet really sluggish on thin client

2011-05-09 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 09.05.2011 15:34, schrieb Horst Prote: Rolf-Werner Eilert schrieb: Did you really get a 3D accelerated driver running on 4.2? No. That was on LTSP 5. Horst Aaah ok - then I haven't been wrong all that time :-) Rolf

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Using LSH instead of SSH and X-Forward cache ?

2011-05-30 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 28.05.2011 02:19, schrieb David Burgess: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:42 PM,antoi...@grupo-mediatec.com wrote: The reason for me is that when one of the thin clients goes to youtube the network bandwith goes up a lot (80Mb/sec and it's because the thin client cannot go higher). I'm not a

[Ltsp-discuss] Deallocating console 7 fails - what is that?

2011-06-06 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Experimenting with LTSP 5, I got could not deallocate console 7 when leaving the window manager (KDE in that case). What does this mean, and how can I get rid of it? Unfortunately I found lots of such discussions on the net, but none which would specifically have to do with LTSP. So thank you

[Ltsp-discuss] Sleep mode for clients

2011-07-05 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Browsing the threads on this list, I just had an idea that might help in case of older clients with long booting times but still capable of serving LTSP5. Would it be possible to freeze and store memory of a client after booting (and maybe at a point just before starting LDM)? This would make

[Ltsp-discuss] Why LDM?

2011-08-29 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
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 system we use KDM with a special template and it's ok

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Why LDM?

2011-09-06 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 29.08.2011 23:16, schrieb 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

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Why LDM?

2011-09-07 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 06.09.2011 21:13, schrieb Vagrant Cascadian: On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 10:45:40AM +0200, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: If I understand you right, LDM is a means of login for ssh sessions. So if I don't use ssh sessions, I can live well with KDM? you won't have localapps, remote sound, local

[Ltsp-discuss] How to set up while old server running

2011-09-07 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Now, this is really a dilemma for me. In the past, I updated the LTSP server several times, each time on a new machine for the new version. Easy as cake: Assembling the hardware, setting up Linux on it and LTSP, give it a new IP in the network - and you can log in from anywhere whenever

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Build Linux Server and Thin Client Environment - For Community College

2011-10-12 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
This sounds interesting to me: I buy Atom based barebones PC, these tend to be an assembled case with motherboard and Atom processor, with onboard NIC, sound and graphics. All you need to do is add some RAM and you're done. Budget around �100 per client, but I can usually get them for about

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Build Linux Server and Thin Client Environment - For Community College

2011-10-12 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 12.10.2011 12:29, schrieb Chris Roberts: On Wednesday 12 Oct 2011, John Ingleby wrote: Just follow the installation instructions. Give yourself time to experiment with just one server and workstation. You need a fast (Gigabit) network switch to connect several workstations. Just to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Build Linux Server and Thin Client Environment - For Community College

2011-10-12 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 12.10.2011 13:11, schrieb Alkis Georgopoulos: Στις 12-10-2011, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 12:46 +0200, ο/η Rolf-Werner Eilert έγραψε: We have a bunch of Dell Optiplex P III running here, but with 512 MB RAM they do not work at all under LTSP 5. So I kept on using LTSP 4.2 and plan to change

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