Dear Oliver, Very Cool.
Regards, Flint On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:39:44 +0000 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: edubuntu-users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 43 > > Send edubuntu-users mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of edubuntu-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: authenticating to alternate server (Randall Swift) > 2. awesome video series about edubuntu (Oliver Grawert) > 3. Re: authenticating to alternate server (David Trask) > 4. Re: awesome video series about edubuntu (David Trask) > 5. Re: authenticating to alternate server (Randall Swift) > 6. Fw: alternate dhcp (Jim Kronebusch) > 7. Re: authenticating to alternate server (Jim Kronebusch) > 8. RE: LTSP some LCD monitors hangs during init (Christian Jorgensen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:09:19 -0500 > From: "Randall Swift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: authenticating to alternate server > To: "David Trask" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > "David Trask" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Randall Swift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I did that, the problem now is my server hangs on reboot at "loading >>> kernel log daemon" and will not go any further. It has only done this >>> since I ran smbldap ldap client. I turned off ACPI and it made no >>> difference. >> >> Is the samba-ldap server working OK? Just trying to get my bearings here >> and figure exactly what is failing. >> >> David N. Trask >> Technology Teacher/Director >> Vassalboro Community School >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (207)923-3100 >> >> > > I have it working now, the minorfixes that were in Jim's how to solved the > problem. > http://www.1-cs.com/gutsy_ubuntu_ldap_howto.txt > the changes to step 8 and 10 solved it. > However, I still cannot use openoffice or firefox on the terminals. The > reason why I switched from fedora to edubuntu was to see if it would solve > the problems with OO and firefox, no luck. Thanks for all the help. I am > still trying to figure out the application issues. I hope I do not need to > blow away my samb/ldap server. > > Randy Swift > Network Administrator > Leavitt Area High School > Turner, Maine 04282 > (207)225-3533 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:23:38 +0100 > From: Oliver Grawert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: awesome video series about edubuntu > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > hi, > > i just stumbled over a totally awesome video series about using edubuntu > in libraries, i collected links to the 9 videos on > https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuVideoIntroduction > but am missing teh time to put much more text on it atm, probably > someone wants to step up do add some flesh between the links ;) > > ciao > oli > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: not available > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 189 bytes > Desc: This is a digitally signed message part > Url : > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/attachments/20071127/e7aa2625/attachment-0001.pgp > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:28:51 -0400 > From: "David Trask" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: authenticating to alternate server > To: "Randall Swift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > "Randall Swift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I hope I do not need to >> blow away my samb/ldap server. > > > If you do...let me know first....I have some ideas for you to preserve all > the data. You will lose the user passwords, but then again as I've > mentioned in the past...when you move to enforced passwords that YOU > generate....life will become a lot easier for you...especially when it > comes to system rescue and user data ;-) > > David N. Trask > Technology Teacher/Director > Vassalboro Community School > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (207)923-3100 > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:36:06 -0400 > From: "David Trask" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: awesome video series about edubuntu > To: "Oliver Grawert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Oliver Grawert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> hi, >> >> i just stumbled over a totally awesome video series about using edubuntu >> in libraries, i collected links to the 9 videos on >> https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuVideoIntroduction >> but am missing teh time to put much more text on it atm, probably >> someone wants to step up do add some flesh between the links ;) > > Wow! These are great! I've watched 1 and 2 already....I will take a > crack at adding text and so forth later today....thanks for the links! > > David N. Trask > Technology Teacher/Director > Vassalboro Community School > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (207)923-3100 > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:45:05 -0500 > From: "Randall Swift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: authenticating to alternate server > To: "David Trask" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > "David Trask" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Randall Swift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I hope I do not need to >>> blow away my samb/ldap server. >> >> >> If you do...let me know first....I have some ideas for you to preserve all >> the data. You will lose the user passwords, but then again as I've >> mentioned in the past...when you move to enforced passwords that YOU >> generate....life will become a lot easier for you...especially when it >> comes to system rescue and user data ;-) >> >> David N. Trask >> Technology Teacher/Director >> Vassalboro Community School >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (207)923-3100 >> >> > > Since I could not get firefox to work on the terminals I installed opera. > I cannot get opera to work but here is what I discovered, when I click on > opera I get the following message: "it appers another instance of opera is > using the same configuration directory because its lock file is active: > /home/rswift/.opera/lock" I also can not save a file to openoffice. It > says I do not have the right permissions. I did chown my home directory > and it made no differnece to either. I have no problems when I am on a > windows machine. Is there some config file on the terminal that I might > have wrong that is screwing up permissions or how they are seen on the > samba/ldap server? > > Randy Swift > Network Administrator > Leavitt Area High School > Turner, Maine 04282 > (207)225-3533 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:22:22 -0500 > From: "Jim Kronebusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Fw: alternate dhcp > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Forwarding, wasn't copied to the list. Jim > > ---------- Forwarded Message ----------- > From: Anton Kaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jim Kronebusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:21:23 +0100 > Subject: alternate dhcp > > Hi, > no respone on similar threads let me try to hook on this one as it seems > similar: > > I want to set up my Edubuntu System on DHCP working on Ports 1067/1068. > It worked fine under feisty but with the same porcedure, I get no > success under gusty. > > The first DHCP-Reqest with the Boot Floppy works fine. On the 2nd one, > Booting the Client-Root , the System stopps with eth0 waiting forever > under Gusty. > > Do you have any idea?? - I work on this for a month now!! > > toni > > Am Montag, den 26.11.2007, 12:34 -0500 schrieb Jim Kronebusch: >> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:42:00 -0500, Randall Swift wrote >>> "R. Scott Belford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>> Randall Swift wrote: >>>>> How can I get into the system to check these settings? The server hangs >>>>> during boot at "loading kernel log daemon" and will not go any further. >>>>> Help. Thanks >>>> >>>> Press esc at Grub and choose rescue mode. Make the changes, then type >>>> init 5. >>>> >>>> --scott >>> >>> I have checked everything and still no luck. It still hangs at "starting >>> kernel log daemon". I am starting to loose my hair. I was under the >>> impression that edubuntu 7.10 was suppose to come all ready to setup users >>> to authenticate to a seperate samba/ldap server. What happened? Is the >>> smbldap-insttaller not able to work with 7.10? I also tried Jim's How to. >>> I need to get this working ASAP or I am switching back to fedora. Sorry, I >>> needed to vent. Thanks for the help so far. >> >> I have updated the howtos. There is >> http://www.1-cs.com/feisty_ubuntu_ldap_howto.txt >> and http://www.1-cs.com/gutsy_ubuntu_ldap_howto.txt. The Gutsy version has >> a couple >> small changes in steps 8 and 10. >> >> To fix your setup boot into recovery mode. Run ldap-auth-config and answer >> the >> questions as in step 8 of the Ubuntu Gutsy howto. The last question will be >> for >> encryption, choose md5. Then verify /etc/nsswitch.conf settings as in step >> 9 (be >> certain files is before ldap), /etc/ldap.conf as in step 10, and >> /etc/ldap/ldap.conf as >> in step 11. Then double check all 4 /etc/pam.d files as in step 12. >> >> When you are certain everything is a match run "id username" at the command >> line where >> username is a valid user from your ldap server, and do the same with "getent >> passwd >> username". The id command should spit out that username and all the groups >> they are >> part of. And getent passwd should spit out the uid/gid and home directory >> locations. >> Also you can run "getent group groupname" where groupname is a valid group >> on your ldap >> server. If those work you should be able to login. If not, something might >> be broken >> on your ldap server. >> >> Hope that helps, >> Jim >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by the Cotter Technology >> Department, and is believed to be clean. >> >> > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by the Cotter Technology > Department, and is believed to be clean. > ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- > > > Jim Kronebusch > Cotter Tech Department > 453-5188 > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by the Cotter Technology > Department, and is believed to be clean. > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:55:49 -0500 > From: "Jim Kronebusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: authenticating to alternate server > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > >> Since I could not get firefox to work on the terminals I installed opera. >> I cannot get opera to work but here is what I discovered, when I click on >> opera I get the following message: "it appers another instance of opera is >> using the same configuration directory because its lock file is active: >> /home/rswift/.opera/lock" I also can not save a file to openoffice. It >> says I do not have the right permissions. I did chown my home directory >> and it made no differnece to either. I have no problems when I am on a >> windows machine. Is there some config file on the terminal that I might >> have wrong that is screwing up permissions or how they are seen on the >> samba/ldap server? > > I wonder if this is a problem with the NFS mount and not LDAP? > > First run "id testuser" and "getent passwd testuser" from the client and let > us know > what the results are (where testuser is an actual user that can log into the > clients). > > Also, is the LDAP server running on the same server as the clients, or is > there a > separate authentication server? And are the /home directories stored on the > LTSP > server, or is there a separate nfs server exporting /home? If a separate > server is > exporting /home then send the /etc/fstab contents of the LTSP server and > possibly the > /etc/exports contents of the nfs server. > > In my experience if id and getent work, the ldap authentication and server > are fine. > After that it is group membership, permissions, file system mounts, etc that > are the > problem. > > Jim > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by the Cotter Technology > Department, and is believed to be clean. > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:39:39 +0100 > From: "Christian Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: LTSP some LCD monitors hangs during init > To: "'Edubuntu Users Group'" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Thanks for the reply, Gavin. > > Funny thing is that first of all i tried leaving out quiet splash from the > pxelinux.cfg/default after what the other monitors won't start either. After > '*Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [OK]', the cursor > blinks and nothing more happens. > If I press 'enter' i get a prompt: > > Ubuntu 7.10 ltsp tty1 > ltsp login: > > ,where i can only login as root. > > OK maybe this will help: I log in as root and type 'startx'. This gives at > the end 'Fatal server error: no screens found > > There is also some other (minor ?) parse errors in the Section "Monitor": > 'Modelname "CMC 17" AD"' > Looks like there is a quotation too many ? Could this be it ?? > > > Otherwise: > I followed the procedure to get the settings that should work from the > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and my lts.conf is now as follows: > > ### > > [default] > X_HORZSYNC=30.0-60.0 > X_VERTREFRESH=60.0-70.0 > X_COLOR_DEPTH=16 > > But still with no result. > Your help is very much appreciated. > > Regards, > Christian. > > > -----Message d'origine----- > De?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Gavin > McCullagh > Envoy??: lundi 26 novembre 2007 14:59 > ??: [email protected] > Objet?: Re: LTSP some LCD monitors hangs during init > > Hi, > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Christian Jorgensen wrote: > >> On some monitors after the splash screen, i get a blinking cursor in the > top >> left corner. >> >> If I switch the monitor, the same client will work fine. Even if i boot > the >> client plugging in the monitor only after the login screen, i get a >> standard vga mode. Then I can login and log out and thus the resolution >> is ok. >> >> In the/var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/ lts.conf file i tried settings like >> >> X_MODE_0 = 1024x768 >> X_COLOR_DEPT = 16 > > The latter is spelt incorrectly, it should be X_COLOR_DEPTH. I presume you > got that right in the test? > >> But so far without any result. >> >> Is there some way to get linux not to wait for confirmation that the > image >> can be viewed or something ? > > I don't think it's waiting for confirmation. It sounds like X > configuration has bombed out somehow. These parameters seem worth trying > setting: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- > X_HORZSYNC min-max MHz autdetected use for > forcing X_MODE > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- > X_VERTREFRESH min-max Hz autdetected use for > forcing X_MODE > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- > X_COLOR_DEPTH 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 32 set to 16bit > to save client mem > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- > > If you can set the thin client root password and login to the client, you > should be able to see what values work (when you get it working by > unplugging the monitor) by looking in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuFAQ#head-285f03d2d3ed2f29847c7793d > bdb8f1488814c1b > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebugThinClientLogin > > You can get a more verbose boot up by editing the file > /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default and removing the words > "splash" and "quiet". > > Gavin > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > > End of edubuntu-users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 43 > ********************************************** > /************************************ Based upon email reliability concerns, please send an acknowledgement in response to this note. 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