-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Henri wrote: > Buchan Milne a �crit:
> What i mean is that drakTerm should give the choice : export all the > root dir so that you are able to run everything locally n your TX OR > using a small directory containing "only" the necessary to use a remote > X session. > In your mind it seems that is "if you need the first solution, use > drakTerm, and if you need the second, go to LTSP". What i suggest is to > add the second solution to drakTerm because it is far easier to use a > graphical tool creating configuring everything, and because that's > really boring to set up local drives with LTSP. > i hope i'm clear...;) > drakTerm supports both, but you cannot support both if you do not export the majority of the root partition. If you are in the postition where over 50% of your client machines are MMX or faster, I would use drakTerm, otherwise I would use LTSP. >> >> >> LTSP is not as simple to install as DrakTermServ, >> >> >> Show us the souce to the entire LTSP distro (one that can be built >> easily), and maybe something can be done. Last time I looked, you could >> only download binaries of the majority of their stuff. > > > I believe it is not true anymore. They changed their config file format > and created a new LBE source package. take a look at > http://www.LTSP.org/lbe-alpha-2.html. It's been a while since I looked at terminals (1 year for LTSP, 6 months for drakTerm), but I don't see their entire setup there. Where are their kernel configs etc? Last time I looked, there were *only* binaries to be seen. > > No ! tftp/nfs are NOT chrooted : the dir which is exported is at > /opt/ltsp, but it does not mean this is chrooted. What i would like is > that the server can be used as a workstation, with an isolated server. Why, you're just duplicating everything. What motivation is there to have to maintain two sets of software (including security updates etc)? The server can be used as a workstation with drakTerm. > Anyway that's not the bigger pb. > What i would really like is drakTerm to be a complete remote X solution > : for the moment, it only provide one kind of the two ways to use remote > thin stations. > According to Stew, that is incorrect since about August last year. - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+bOr0rJK6UGDSBKcRAjk+AJ9Hbf9v4QHyFOQHv/EK/4qgpiCeDACgni6E yKHKqhXoDi+NFl74u/ExkIg= =bvCi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
