On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 22:00, you wrote: > Can you better define "LTSP environment"? See http://ltsp.org/ using version ltsp_core-3.0.9
Unfortunately some applets work and others do not. It's very perplexing to say the least! > I've set my (computer illiterate > / naieve) father up with an old pentium machine, no hard drive etc, > connected up to my good Debian box ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), and booting off a floppy > with etherboot. It's been ages since I set it up, but from memory I have > LTSP installed on the Debian box, etherboot loads the LTSP kernel (via > TFTP), then mounts the NFS share LTSP provides for the root filesystem, X > is started, it and connects to the gdm display server which is running on > the Debian box. ie. the only thing that runs on the remote machine is X. > After my dad logs in through gdm, he's using KDE 3.1 running on the Debian > box (ie. my good machine), with the display sent to the X server running on > his machine. Broadly speaking that's identical to our set up. With which I'm really impressed. I had a .avi movie playing on the main machine / server, two terminals each running a web browser ( Konqueror ), a typing tutor, and another terminal with OpenOffice.org open. The 600MHz PIII with 384Megs ram seemed to stand the strain pretty well. i.e. not much noticeable jitter on the movie. > I don't see how this "environment" is any different from if he were to sit > down in front of my good machine physically and log in. Neither do I, but I assure you we can see applets running fine on the screen of the server, but blank holes in the web pages when they were attempting to display on the LTSP terminals, which are COMPAQ 266 P IIs. A friend got the wretched COMPAQs. Had I known that minor detail at the time I would have tried to avoid them. > He uses KMail, > KWord (I'd install openoffice, but I don't want him slowing down my machine > too much ;-), Konqueror etc all quite happily. I imagine if he were to use > Java applets in Konq he'd get the same results as if he were using it on > the local machine (ie. it'd work). > > If you're sure that your setup is similar and for some weird reason Java > applets _don't_ work, let me know (maybe post a link to the page you're > using so I can use it to test) and I'll log in from his terminal and try it > sometime. Thanks I'll get the addresses tomorrow. > On Monday 03 November 2003 21:08, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > Greets folks, > > > > We were a bit disappointed because we could't run quite a few Web pages > > with Java applets on them in the LTSP environment. > > > > Is this normal? > > > > Anybody know a fix? -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
