On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Nathan Sweet wrote: > > > 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.
Well, I'm happy to be the guinea pig. Wish me luck. > > > > > 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. Well, that's kind of a bummer. My plan was to have the workstations log in automatically via gdm's autologin capability. I guess I'll have to explore other possibilities for this. > > 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. Will do. Thanks for all the help! Nathan ------------------------------------------------------- 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?sunm0004en _____________________________________________________________________ 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
