On Jan 29, 2008 10:48 AM, Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jim Hutchinson wrote: > > > Thanks for all the feedback. It seems that having both fat and thin > > would be ideal but I don't have that option. I only have the one lab > > and it may be difficult to keep it as we continue to grow. > > I think you do have the option. Basically, thin clients are the > completely > straightforward route which should work out of the box. By setting up > LDAP > and NFS you can keep your thin clients and add on a few fat ones too. As > someone else mentioned, dual booting the two is also possible (though > probably confusing for users). >
Talking about fat clients authenticating via LDAP, I've just done that on my network, to take advantage of the 20 core 2 duo laptops that have been running as thin clients till now. After doing an apt-get install edubuntu-desktop in a new chroot (ltsp-build-image -a i386 -b /opt/ltsp/fati386 -p 2003), one gets a couple of apt-get errors related to cupsys, so need to take it out of init.d temporarily to do a successful apt-get install -f. Making sure you have the ldap client installed and properly configured in the chroot, you can then build the image using ltsp-build-image -a fati386 -b /opts/ltsp -p 2003 (yes seems wrong, but this is the way it worked for me.) Anyway, after migrating all the unix groups and users to the LDAP server database, I restarted the slapd server and dhcpd server (after adding the appropriate line in there), and started up a thin 'fat' client to boot up and authenticate successfully against the LDAP directory, but I had some problems with my ATI video cards. It looks, however, like it works. The only thing I was unsure about, when logging in from the terminal is a message saying the groups and user referring to the numbers as specified in ldap were not found. Should I create a group with the appropriate ID in /etc/group in the client? (in this case 1000) Anyway, I'll test some more tomorrow, and see if I'm successful. David > > Gavin > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >
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