We had similar problems with mozilla in the past. You're best bet is to use a different browser:
1) you can use konqueror, set it up, and then let $HOME/.kde do the work 2) If you want mozilla abilities, use epiphany (the new gnome browser). Galeon and epiphany both use the mozilla backends to render, but the gnome configuration system to store their profiles (which doesn't have mozilla's bugs) however galeon has some severe bugs under thin-client usage (it will quickly and easily chew up all the system resources), epiphany seems to be the best solution for shared browser profiles under LTSP at this stage. Since you are not using KDE I would recommend epiphany over konqueror as that does not need to preload all the KDE desktop libs (using konqueror outside kde uses very nearly as much resources as running KDE in the first place). PS. Why don't you drop by the SchoolNet Namibia offices sometime and see the OpenLab distribution in action ? It does everything you are talking about. It is already free (as in speech) and right now we are working on a free as in beer community edition which will be available to everyone within a few weeks (at the most). Ciao A.J. On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 08:39, s9655808 wrote: > ----------------------------------------- (on students) > > This e-mail message and / or its attachment(s) does not engage the responsibility of > the sender nor does it bind the Polytechnic of Namibia in any way. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Dear All, > > I have successfully installed LTSP 4 on Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 AS, with 3 > test workstations running without a problem.I also got DIreqcafe 1.5 of A.J. > Venter working on this install, using icewm as the default for all the > workstations. > > Thanks to all the guys who is working on great OpenSource software solutions!! > > The scenario for our LTSP deployment is as follows: > > At least 10 workstations (TO BE INCREASED at a later stage) needs to be setup > in our Library, where at least 50 users per day needs to get access to the > Internet using these Workstations. We have at least 5000 students whom > eventually will all need to use the Library Internet Cafe at one stage. > > My problem is to configure a browser (preferable Mozilla or Netscape) for all > 5000 user accounts. I thought that I could use one default profile or shared > profile for all users, having one home dir, ie /home/students for all the > student users, but Mozilla does not support shared profiles, due to preference > files that gets corrupted easily and other reasons. > See http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/shared_profiles.html for more info. > > Any help in this regard will be appreciated. > > Thanks > Rudolf > > > -- -- "Is there a way to put gcc in 'just trust me on that one' mode ?" A.J. Venter DireqLearn Tech Guru www.direqlearn.org www.silentcoder.homelinux.com (personal site) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
