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.
that is the case, but running a local KDE caught from an NFS export on a 200mmx, i don't think it is really very fast !
> >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)?
That is simple :
- the risk to have something compromised on the NFS exported dir is decreased if the only thing you export is XFree and a set of 10 essential commands needed to boot the machine,
- if the NFS server is attacked, that won't be a big problem if it is chrooted. You can't chroot all your system hierarchy i think.
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.
I think that only tftp is chrooted, not the nfs server.
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