Am Donnerstag, den 20.10.2005, 01:03 +0200 schrieb Mario Minati:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a problem understanding how ltsp works.
>
> First I'll would like to describe my goal, than my question is easier to
> understand.
> 1. The users shall use thin clients with an ltsp server
> 2. The users are working with KDE (or Gnome) and mounting a central data
> directory from a samba server (servs also win-stations)
> 3. There is some special daemon (A) working on each client.
> 4. The samba server monitors (gets the filename, the clients IP, DNS
> name and Netbios name) writing in special directory and starts tasks
> like converting changed files to other formats.
> 5. After converting the samba server (not samba itself) shall send a
> message to the clients daemon (A) to open a speciffic application or do
> whatever.
I do not understand what exactly you try to achieve with that setup. If
you want to monitor SMB accesses to a certain filesystem and use the
information to e.g. display a TIFF image to the user's screen after he
sent a .PNG to a Samba share - well that should be possible. In that
case, run (e.g.) "xli filename" with the appropriately set DISPLAY
variable (which in turn you can find out with the username that accessed
samba and the 'last' command, sed and grep are your friends).
You do not need anything like client daemon for that (which would rather
complicate things imo).
> Now my problem is:
> Can I reach the client (running on LTSP) by IP, DNS name or Netbios
> name? Or do I only get the values from the ltsp server?
You can assign each terminal a quasi fixed IP by having
host ws001 {
hardware ethernet 00:c0:1d:c0:ff:ee;
fixed address 192.168.0.101;
}
stanzas in your dhcpd.conf. Thus, if you know the machine to display to,
setting the DISPLAY variable to "192.168.0.101:0" and running the
appropriate command could do.
> Maybe you have an other idea to accomplish the same. :-)
If I understand more precisely what you want to achieve at all, well...
perhaps.
> I hope you can give me more clearness, I tried allready in the german
> forum, but they couldn't help me.
If you prefer speaking German to someone about this give me a call (ich
stehe im Bonner Telefonbuch).
Regards
Anselm
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