What if you just used bootp for booting the LTSP machines?

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Actually, I haven't even gotten this far yet.  I'm still stuck because we
> use Windows 2000 as our DHCP server.  Apparently, Win 2000 doesn't have the
> ability to exclude specific machines from receiving a DHCP address by their
> MAC address.  Since I can't do this, and our company won't let me switch all
> DHCP services over to a Linux server - it pretty much makes it impossible
> for me to proceed with using the LTSP project in our environment.
>
> (I've already received the suggestion of placing the LTSP systems on their
> own independent network or LAN segment.  This isn't realistic for our
> environment.  We have a structured cabling system with 10/100 ethernet
> already, and we need the ability to swap a standard Win 2000 PC or a LTSP
> thin-client booting to Citrix at will, using the same wall ports.)
>
> Right now, I'm working on an alternate plan.  I installed a freeware version
> of DOS (www.freedos.org) on our old PCs, and set up the DOS Citrix client on
> them.  After I get a particular configuration of PC working in this manner,
> I use Norton Ghost to make a disk image of it.  Then I can clone it to all
> the other PCs of the same type.  This isn't perfect, because it still relies
> on each PC having a working hard drive.  Still, this may be the most
> efficient way I can convert these old PCs into pseudo thin-clients.
>
> - Tom
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Abraham Pearson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 9:37 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Launch the Citrix Client instead of XDM
>
>
> Tom Wyrick,
>      I also am trying to configure LTSP to automatically launch the Citrix
> Client.  What changes did you make to rc.local to launch the Citrix Client.
> Note:  I am using TFTP and NFS on Windows 4.0 as mentioned in Paul
> Whittaker's Contrib page.  Also I have LOCAL_WM = Y and LOCALAPPS = N
>
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