Hi Stew, Yesterday, I spent the day, and a large portion of the evening setting up a server for a school, running 9.0rc2 (with updates from cooker) as:
1)Domain controller and print server 2)SNF 3)Mail gateway 4)Terminal server (I know this isn't the best idea, but cash is limited - the whole project including all new hardware is less than one of the new firewall appliances, and we can only afford one machine until we can prove the value of diskless clients). I had some issues, which currently result in the clients not booting. I will have one opportunity to fix this, probably on Saturday morning (connectivity over a dialup also, so limited email/googling etc). Unfortunately I didn't have time to investigate too much, but here we go: The clients booted their kernel, I think managed the pivot ok, then started up the init scripts, and just died there. One file listed as missing was /etc/mtab, gprintf was not available, and then I got dumped into a root shell saying I had to run fsck on some device, which shouldn't have been mounted, and didn't exist in /dev on the machine. /dev/ appeared to be very empty (about 40 files I think). If I remember correctly, /dev/tty0 was missing (sorry, it was quite late by that stage). If I want to try and fix these issues, what kind of things am I going to need to do? One annoyance is that it seems impossible to have terminal-server and snf configure dhcp, but terminal-server doesn't make allowance for a dynamic range or WINS IPs (both of which I need for the +- 10 windows desktops they currently have), if I were to add another interface to the machine I don't see how I would be able to run two dhcpd's (yet, I could hack a bit), and the SNF config also trashes everything the terminal server setup. (The need for a configuration api which would make these two tools live together is made evident by this setup). The docs in the drakTermServ are good, but just don't quite cover enough. I guess this is a bit late to fix things (I had meant to test this before, but ran short of time), but any input would be appreciated. I will be taking LTSP RPMs (and pxesclient, which also looks doable) with me just in case though ... Regards, Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| 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
