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 > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > -- ------------------- Roger Whittaker SuSE Linux Ltd The Kinetic Centre Theobald Street Borehamwood Herts WD6 4PJ ------------------ 020 8387 1482 ------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
