Well, I figured it out. Even though it's a fat client, it seems the way to make it work was to follow this how-to:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LocalAppsLucidPrinting The fat client is connecting as a client to the server and printing from there, rather than printing on its own, but at least it can print. Todd On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Todd O'Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: > I was able to get root access by doing > > $ sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/amd64 passwd -u root > $ sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/amd64 passwd > > and setting the password. As I guessed, cups isn't starting. In fact, > when I look in the rc.d directories, all mentions of cups are K50cups > files, meaning that cups is getting killed, rather than started. > > Once I start cups manually, using the root account on the client, then > login in as a normal user, everything works fine. There's something > funky about trying to install cups in a chroot. Because the > installation script tries to run the cups server as part of > installing, and fails because it's in a chroot, the cups daemon > doesn't get set up to start on boot. > > Any ideas? > Todd > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:48 PM, David Groos <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey Todd, not sure if this will help, but if you go to the >> /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/your.fat.image/lts.conf file and type: >> >> SCREEN_02=shell >> >> SCREEN_07=ldm >> >> (without the bullets, and maybe with a restart of your client). Then, when >> you reboot and are sitting at a client you hit F2 and you will be brought >> into maybe it's called, "console" but I think of it as "terminal" but on the >> local client, not on the server. Of course you can do any change on the >> client, remove this and that or whatever, and upon reboot you get a fresh >> system without your modifications. Anyway, hope this works on fat clients, >> not just thin clients--I'm still trying to figure out fat clients. Anyone? >> David >> On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote: >> >> I can't get CUPS to start on a fat client. This is more complicated, >> because I can't sudo to check anything, because once the user logs in >> on the fat client, it doesn't use the server's user database anymore. >> >> So, two questions: >> >> 1. Does anyone know if CUPS not starting on an AMD64 LTSP fat client >> running 10.04 is a known problem with a known solution. (This is >> regular Ubuntu LTSP, not Edubuntu, but the LTSP part makes this list a >> lot more useful, I think.) >> >> 2. How do I get sudo access on the client? >> >> Thanks muchly, >> Todd >> >> -- >> 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
