Hi, It was so simple, but I couldn't manage to find.
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie gives the answer it's saying that "On LTSP diskless workstations the homedir isn't mounted. This is caused by automounter running and blocking /skole as mountpoint for sshfs. As a workaround (to be able to test things) set RM_SYSTEM_SERVICES=autofs in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf. " doing that solves the home directories problem. still couldn't get kerberos ticket renewed. thanks by the way. Regards, Uday B. Bhatye Physics Department, ASP College, Devrukh Ratnagiri Maharashtra - 415 804 9404933003 On 19 February 2015 at 13:28, uday bhatye <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 18 February 2015 at 20:43, Wolfgang Schweer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:29:51PM +0530, uday bhatye wrote: >> > >> > I'm using wheezy. A mix of thin clients & diskless workstations on >> > 10.0.0.0/8 network. >> > >> > Used sitesummary2ldapdhcp, then added machines on main network to >> > workstation-hosts netgroup. >> >> Hi, >> >> Firstly, thanks very much for the reply. >> > > >> Adding diskless workstations isn't needed -- unless you want to use an >> alternative to LDM (for LTSP clients). See the documentation for >> details. >> > > > I read about adding them to netgroup in some list discussion while trying > to troubleshoot. But, now I realize that it was old days. > >> >> > Problem is when clients boot as thin clients, we get the home >> > directories and can see other users' directories above them, also new >> > files created are saved. Same machine, if booted as diskless >> > workstation shows nothing apart from a blank Desktop directory in the >> > home directory. >> > >> If LDM is used (which is the LTSP default), only the home directory of >> the logged in user is mounted (using sshfs), nothing else. So this is >> the expected behaviour. See the documentation for details how to use >> another DM like KDM, GDM or Lightdm along with NFS and automount. >> >> I mean to say that as diskless client, I get a blank home directory > (similar to what we get on first time user login) without any of the user's > files that are already present in /skole/tjener/home0/<user>/. But, I can > see those when booted as thin client. > > > Any new files created are lost after reboot. >> >> This is strange. Do you really mean files in the user's home directory? >> >> Yes, I start diskless client (on main network) , log in and create/ > download some files in home directory. I logout, relogin and they are still > there. But I reboot the client, they are gone. > > Moreover, mount command on diskless workstation doesn't show anything > mounted as home and pwd shows /skole/tjener/home0/<user> > > > Also, kerberos ticket is not renewing on clients. >> >> This is expected for diskless workstations as the login via LDM doesn't >> allow it. If needed, it can be renewed manually -- see the >> documentation. >> >> > Googled and tried a lot with no luck. >> >> I guess you'd be better off reading the Debian Edu documentation >> available locally via https://www in the Debian Edu network -- or try >> this all-in-one page: >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/AllInOne >> >> and use your browser's search function. >> > > I read it already but manual renewal as discribed in above docs -- by > entering the password is also not working on diskless workstation. > >> >> Wolfgang >> >> Regards, > > Uday B. Bhatye > Physics Department, > ASP College, Devrukh > Ratnagiri > Maharashtra - 415 804 > > 9404933003 >
