Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > I'm running LTSP5 / Ubuntu 6.10 and I'm wondering that if I install a > package, say Firefox for example, in the chroot environment using: > > sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 aptitude install firefox > > does this now make firefox run locally on the thin client rather than > the server? If so, does anyone have any suggestions as to which > applications are good to run locally (firefox, OOo, Evolution) to > conserve resources on the server? My clients, on average, are 400MHz > with 128MB of RAM.
All that does, is install the package. It doesn't mean that when a user clicks on the firefox icon that it launches the local one. That's a whole different issue. If you want to run firefox locally, you'll need a method of authenticating yourself to the thin client. by default, the thin client doesn't have a clue about users. You don't normally log into a thin client, you use it to log into a server. Big difference. For that, you need some sort of network authentication. In the past, we've used NIS for local apps, but that's pretty much being replaced by LDAP, although the plumbing isn't all in place yet for that to be nice and easy. Once you've got authentication going, then next thing you'll need is a home directory for your user. Afterall, if you want to launch firefox to run locally, it's gonna need the users home directory, to store the users preferences and other things. NFS is the way to do that, but again, the plumbing isn't in place to make it happen automatically. These are all issues we hope to address in the next version of Ubuntu (Feisty+1) that we'll be spec'ing at the next Ubuntu Developer Summit coming up in early May. People have actually gotten apps like firefox working locally, it's just not officially part of LTSP yet. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
