On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 02:24:12PM -0600, Robert Maynord wrote: > Dear LTSP Folks: > > I recently discovered LSTP and am very excited about the possibilities > for use in our school. Our school has a pre-existent Linux network > (Mandrake 81) with one linux machine as the internet > firewall/web-filter/DHCP server and a second linux machine as the > NFS/NIS/SMB server. All works well. However, many of our older > machines are simply too slow to be useful on the network. I set up a > sample network using LTSP, and it works great! The Pentium 133 with 48 > RAM suddenly runs right along at the speed of the Pentium 600 it is > connected to! Now I can use all those older "boat anchors". > > However -- I need to integrate the LSTP server and workstations into the > larger system. If I simply connect the LSTP machines to one of our hubs, > I will have problems with conflicting DHCP servers.
You don't have to run a dhcp daemon on the ltsp server, you could use the existing one. But it is probably a good idea to have the ltsp client-server traffic on a separate private network. > What I am > attempting to do now is install a second network card in the LSTP > server, and use that card to link to the internet firewall server. I > would use iptables to direct internet packets to the LTSP server (with a > static ip address). If this works, I must then solve the problem of NIS > and NFS. In the existing network, NIS handles the user logins, and NFS > is set up so that HOME directories are mounted on login. I assume that > I will set up the LSTP server to use NIS and NFS just like the other > existent workstations in the existent network. Depending on your users need, NIS/NFS mounted /home might turn out to be unnecessary. If the users will login only on the ltsp clients, and the ltsp server can hold all their data, then it will be unnecessary, but if they need to login to other machines, or have large amounts of data that can not be stored on the ltsp server, then you must go NIS/NFS mounted /home. > Presumably, the data > will automatically be transferred to the LTSP workstations. Not really, only the ltsp server will need it. The workstations/clients will only show the results of the server using that data. > Is there anything I am missing here? Anything such as domain names, > subnets? Do I use iptables to move info from one network card to the > other network card in the LTSP machine? No. Just plain ifconfig is needed on the ltsp server. -- Hans Ekbrand, FK, forskarstuderande tel +46 (0)31-773 5830, Sociologiska institutionen, G�teborgs universitet Dept of Sociology, Goteborg University Box 720, SE-405 30 GOTEBORG Bes�ksadress/visiting address: Skanstorget 18 World Wide Web: http://www.sociology.gu.se _____________________________________________________________________ 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
