Many thanks for the very helpful replies David and Gavin. I will have a go at setting up the FAT clients as described (probably next month) and will report back on how I get on!
Tom > Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 16:17:33 +0200 > From: "David Van Assche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Fat clients or standalone for DVD watching? > To: "Edubuntu Users Group" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > The Fat client setup is more than enough for running multimedia apps on, in > fact it was thought out with that in mind. I've tested it with KDE, XFCE and > Gnome and all work quite well. I would advise that you first install the > environment with the plugin, then enter the chroot and install LDAP and NFS, > as well as all the multimedia apps you're gonna need. > > It would be nice if someone could figure out how to mount via sshfs instead > of nfs (the latter seems a bit jerky sometimes, plus there is the security > issue.) I've been unable to tunnel the /home through ssh... too complicated > for me... but there are people on this list who could do it in seconds ;-) > > When setting up the LDAP server on the ubuntu box, there are some things > that don't work quite as they should when going through some of the wikis. > For example, when installing smbldap-tools, it should copy a bunch of > scripts that allow you to migrate the unix users to LDAP, but nothing > happens. So you manually have to copy the scripts from here: > /usr/share/doc/smbldap-tools/examples/migrationscripts as well as the > smb.conf, smbldap.conf and smbldap_bind.conf found in the examples directory > to /etc/smbldap-tools. Then edit the smb*.conf files so that you have the > right LDAP server settings in there. > > As Gavin said, it seems silly to install the environment in a local > harddrive... it would be better from an administration point to make it a > chroot so you only have to update one location, as opposed to every fat > client... so diskless would be the way to go. > > Kind Regards, > David Van Assche > > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 18 May 2008, Tom Atkins wrote: > > > > > We are buying a couple of new PCs for 'multimedia' in the same lab - in > > > particular watching of DVD's and burning CD's. What is the best way to > > set > > > these up? Should I just install Ubuntu locally on each of the new PCs and > > > then use NFS and LDAP for authentication and file sharing to the server? > > Or > > > would the LTSP Fat client setup work for DVD watching? > > > > From a maintenance point of view (applying patches, adding packages, disk > > failures, keeping the installs consistent), the LTSP stuff would be handy. > > Local desktops might have some advantages too though. > > > > > Fat client setup as described here: > > > > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients > > > > > > If the Fat Client setup would work, would the Fat Clients be diskless or > > > would I need to buy hard drives? > > > > The general idea is that they would be diskless though they could I guess > > have local storage if you wanted it. It seems to miss the point if you > > need to do that though. > > > > Gavin > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
