On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Nathan Sweet wrote: > Greetings everyone -- > > I have searched for documentation regarding these issues, but have, thus > far, been unable to find anything related to what I need to know. If > anyone could help or point me in the right direction, it would be much > appreciated. > > I am in the process of setting up a small LTSP network, consisting of > 10-12 clients. The server is running RedHat 8.0. The clients are > Jammin-125's. The LTSP packages are the latest available. > > 1) Is it possible to connect USB drives (i.e., floppy and Zip)? I saw > Paul Whittaker's solution for USB Zip drives, but I was wondering if there > were other methods that made for a more seemless integration at the > workstation. I haven't seen any solutions for USB floppy.
I've not tried the USB floppy. It seems like it should work, and the USB modules are part of the LTSP kernel, so someone needs to give it a try. > > 2) I'm having a strange issue with OpenOffice.org -- I can log into one > terminal and load up and use OpenOffice.org with no problem. I can log > into a separate workstation with a different account and OpenOffice.org > works fine. However, when I am logged into two different workstations at > the same time with the same account, OpenOffice.org doesn't work correctly > anymore -- I can launch the program successfully on the first workstation, > but if it is still running on the first workstation and I try to launch it > on the second workstation, the new windows will appear on the first. As > far as I know, this does not happen with other applications. Is this a > configuration issue? I've seen posts saying that it was necessary to run > OpenOffice.org setup for each "client," but that doesn't make sense to me > -- I'm sure they meant "user" instead of "client." Or am I way off on > this? Has anyone else seen this or is this a question for the > OpenOffice.org community? You've already described the cause of the problem. You should NOT log in to 2 workstations at the same time with the same user id. It causes problems not only with OpenOffice, but also with Gnome and KDE. It's just not a good idea. > > 3) I'm slightly confused about the need for /etc/hosts. I confess, I > haven't set it up at all and LTSP using NFS and gdm *appear* to be working > just fine, however I don't want things to go awry down the road (could > this even be related to issue #2 above?). Am I missing something? Or > should I just leave well enough alone? The use of /etc/hosts, is so that various services can map the IP address to a hostname. In certain versions of NFS and GDM/KDM, they require a hostname to go along with the IP address. It seems like each version of linux has different requirements as to which services actually need the reverse mapping, but still you should always provide some method of mapping an IP address to a hostname. DNS will do fine, but many people have a hard time getting it setup properly with reverses and all. So, I just recommend using the /etc/hosts file. > > Besides the above issues, everything else is working great so far. > Compliments to Jim for a great software package and a great thinclient, > too! Thanks :) Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0003en _____________________________________________________________________ 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
