Hello James, Wednesday, December 18, 2002, 6:19:41 PM, you wrote:
JTRJ> Hello,
JTRJ> I've successfully installed the LTSP software and I currently have one Redhat
8.0 based server and one X-Terminal.
JTRJ> The X-Terminal is a Pentium 200, with no hard disk (just floppy & CDROM) and a
3c905b NIC. It also has an AWE64 soundcard.
JTRJ> What I'd like to be able to do is have each machine be able to use their
floppy/cdrom/audio/(possibly Zip/Jazz) devices, yet remain (hard)diskless. Is this
possible? I've read in the ltsp
JTRJ> contrib section about using ftp and automount to do this, but it seems more like
an ugly hack for my purposes.
There is an approach like NBD (Network block devices). I set it up
after howto from the net and it still runs, but I'm not into it right
now. Search for NBD on the ltsp pages.
JTRJ> For example, I'd like to be able to have a user insert an audio cd and have it
play on their workstation only.
local-apps, then use some command-line (or X) cd-player controlling
software? I hope that's not to hard to do. Never did myself though.
JTRJ> I am also curious about the local X-Terminal. For example, how can I get access
to it's root filesystem after a user has logged in? (I'd like to see a /proc
filesystem for example).
You could compile a static telnetd (that needs no libraries) and put
it inside /opt/ltsp/i386. Then chain it somehoe into the terminal
start scripts, and telnet to that workstation when it is up.
Don't forget to remove it once you are done.
JTRJ> I've noticed that the X-Terminal always has a hostname of "wks001" or something
like that, where is pulling this hostname from?
>From dhcp. You remember reading something about
host ws001 {
fixed-address 1.2.3.4;
hardware ethernet 00:11:17:54:f2:22;
}
entries inside dhcpd.conf?
It can be done more luxuriously for numerous clients, see my posting
from about 5 minutes ago to the topic "[Ltsp-discuss] dhcpd"
HTH
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