Well so two of us seem to be having this problem. I'm wondering if
there are people who _don't_ have this problem. Does anyone have local
drives working so that it continues to work, even after trying to read
an empty drive? If so, I'd like to try to zero in one the differences
in our setups, and hopefully get this fixed. If this problem is just
inherent to this method of accessing local drives, then I won't try to
fix it ( :) ), but it would probably be worth mentioning on the wiki page.
If there's a better way to go about this, I'm all ears. Getting local
drives working is pretty important for us, as we've got a bunch of users
who can't use LTSP until we've got drives working.
Thanks in advance.
Ken
Nadav Kavalerchik wrote:
I'm experiencing the same problem :-(
i tried many things for two weeks now and i have no idea what to try next.
BTW...
from the Konqueror location bar i use "smb://ws001/" and i get the samba
shares. clicking one of them (CD / floppy) i get nothing, except error. but
refreshing (f5) a few time shows the files eventually.
i also get allllloot of smb-time-outs on the server's log.
(the ones that were suppose to go away with ver 4.1.1 fixes)
and another BTW.
I've patched the original rc.localdev for displaying correct Hebrew
codepage/iocharset when reading win98 file names.
see changes on lines 72,97 in the attached file.
yet, another BTW...
did i mentioned how amazing the ltsp project is !!! if not ;-) ...
it's absolutely AMAZING how it all works . thank you all for this beautiful
work !!!
Nadav :-)
On 1/18/06, Ken Tanzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
After getting no repsonse to this plea for help, I've looked into this
more and have some additional information. The problems reading media
seem to happen both upon the initial mount, and also whenever a read to
an empty drive is attempted. In these cases, I have to switch to the
local machine and read the drive, and then my mount on the server is fine.
If I switch one floppy out for another, though, the change is correctly
detected and read.
This behavior happens when I do the mount outside of the LDA-setup.sh
script, so it seems definitely to be something about the way smbmount is
behaving. Here's a "transcript" that might help illuminate this.
"desktop" is our LTSP server.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -ltr tmp/floppy/
total 982
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 501416 May 31 2001 0000001819-04ss.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 503805 May 31 2001 0000001819-04ff.exe
--------------------[[ floppy switched here
]]-------------------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -ltr tmp/floppy/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Dec 8 2001 DescParty2001
--------------------[[ floppy switched here
]]-------------------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -ltr tmp/floppy/
total 982
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 501416 May 31 2001 0000001819-04ss.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 503805 May 31 2001 0000001819-04ff.exe
--------------------[[ floppy removed here ]]-------------------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -ltr tmp/floppy/
total 0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -ltr tmp/floppy/
ls: tmp/floppy/: Not a directory
--------------------[[ floppy replaced here
]]-------------------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -ltr tmp/floppy/
ls: tmp/floppy/: Not a directory
Let me know if I can provide additional information--we'd really love to
get this working. Thanks!
Ken
I'm trying to get local devices (floppy & cdrom) working on our thin
clients. We're running Fedora Core 4, plus LTSP 4.1. Following the
Wiki's Local Media page (and adding the line MODULE_01 =
ide-generic) to my lts.conf, I'm able to _sort of_ get these devices
working. Specifically, the drives, drives/cdrom and drives/floppy
entries are created in my home directory. cdrom and floppy both show
as empty, however, unless I switch to my local machine (i.e., the thin
client), and do an "ls /tmp/drives/cdrom". The ls works OK, and then
my session on the server is able to see the drive contents as well.
Did I miss a step, or does anyone know what might be causing this
problem? Thanks in advance.
Ken
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