On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 00:30, Chris Bayley wrote: > I am trying to run up one of these NCD explora thin clinet on my > fanless adventure.
Yes - the NCD Explora is silent, the NCD Thinstar has a 80 mm fan which is not bad but not silent. > I can get it to boot from the nework and load it's kernel and start X, > but once X is started it has a zillion mesages that it can't find > variious modules / files under /tfptboot come flashing by. > The files are all where they sould be. I wonder if it is about > permissions on the files: they are 755. as a user I can read them, but > from tftp I need to be root to get them - I suspect the X-term has the > same problem ??? tftp is basically ftp without authentication. The client says "gimme the file" and the server says "okay SENDSENDSEND" with no concept of usernames or passwords. > My tfttp runs from xinetd how do I set access for the files served up > (i.e anonymous I guess)?? Here's the single line I use from /etc/inetd.conf on a debian box tftp dgram udp wait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /tftpboot/ /usr/lib/X11/ncd/ Its all one line btw. The in.tftpd part is the binary to run when a tftp connection is made, and the last two directories are where tftpd is allowed to serve files from. You can test it by using tftp from the command line of course - and tailing /var/log/messages daemon auth etc would possibly give more clues. I've never done this with redhat(tm) linux either, so adjust as you see fit. CCed so Chris doesn't miss it.
