Anselm- I've had success in some (not necessarily all) situations running two DHCP servers with one handing IPs to general-purpose PCs in one range (>.99 in the subnet 192.168.1) and the other recognizing specific MAC addresses and giving back a specific host name's IP (<.100 and thus preparing for that workstation specifically to have its' own settings in lts.conf). Do you know of a reason why that should NOT be done? I know there are sometimes problems, but I've had more than one PC working as a workstation with 2 different wireless routers and my LTSP server (which did the DHCP for the workstations.)
-Krishna On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: Am Sonntag, den 16.07.2006, 06:38 -0700 schrieb sandin: > is there any other way to tell the thin clients where to mount the > file systems that by passing it as a DHCP parameter? > > also, are there other shared network resources that can be used such > as a smb share? > > i am in the process of getting some machines runnning ltsp in a pretty > much windows environment. i have a linux machine set up for > development that could go on the main network, but i have a feeling i > will run into issues trying to get them to do anything on their dhcp > server. is there a feature to pass additional parameters during boot > in the append section? If your client machines use etherboot, you can go for the ALTERNATE_DHCP_PORT solution, meaning you would run your DHCP daemon on port 1067/1068 instead of 67/68. This is not possible for vendor PXE though. The root filesystem for the clients has (afaik) to be NFS; there is nothing like root-over-samba. I seem to remember someone setup a LTSP there on a win box, with the M$ Unix-Utils (NFS-server and the shebang). Windows-DHCP-servers also can be configured to hand out parameters other than just an IP address... you should just make sure there is not more than one DHCP-server on each subnet. Regards, Anselm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ 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
