Hello everyone. It is my first post to this group since I subscribed to it and tried to use LTSP only yesterday :(
I have been using x-terminals created by Solucorp Exterminals Project since 1999 (http:www.solucorp.qc.ca) and I have installed a rather powerful server with about 50 terminals in my rather big university network. Most of the terminals have the printer access, some have the souncard access and all of them have a floppy and cd access. All this has been implemented by xterminals since 1999 and gradually improved. Nevertheless, I intend to switch to ltsp, mostly because of bugs and very little support for recent versions of xtermkit. I have two questions: 1. Is it possible to create a boot floppy in such a way that the etherboot (I got the image from www.Rom-O-Matic.net) after detecting the local dhcp server and setting up the ip parameters, wouldn't try to get the kernel (via tftp) from the dhcp server would use anover machine instead, namely my server. It is also important to me thet the terminal wouldn't try mount the root filesystem on the dhcp but on my server. This was possible at the stage of creating bootdisk by passing kernel startup options via lilo.conf. This is iportant in large networks like my university network where there already is a dhcp server, machines have their external addresses and I just want to do a relatively small additional network with a server (the application server with X, ftfp, nfs and everything that ltsp needs) and terminals that may boot under Win (if people need it) or as linux terminals. I tried that yesterday and I failed (at anover university in my town) just because that: the etherboot, after initializing, wanted to get the kernel from the dhcp instead of my server. I even configured the dhcp on my server, but it didn't help because my server and the terminal were in different subnets. Besides, the local admins would not be happy to see another dhcp server working in their network, I am afraid. This is a serious problem that may prevent some peaple from using ltsp, but I believe some of you know the solution. 2. Is there support in ltsp for usb printers (like some HP Laser- and Desk- Jets) and if so, how to set things up? I didn't find it in the docs. Finally, thenks to all of you for spotting and forcing Macromedia to fix the flash problem with x-terminals that that plagued my 250 users for ages. All the best Piotr ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _____________________________________________________________________ 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
