Xavier Brochard wrote: > Le Thursday 11 October 2007 20:47:16 Francis Giraldeau, vous avez écrit : > >>> About the best solution I've seen is to distribute the XDMCP sessions >>> between the servers. >>> >> Yeah, that's right. Dispatching sessions on servers is realy easy to do. >> >> Install one server as a the "master", that will run nfsd home and client >> root, nis (or slapd) tftpd, dhcpd and xdmcp. On other "secondary" >> server, configure them to be client of the master server (ldap >> authentication, mount nfs homes, etc.). Secondary servers are like >> standard networked workstations that will be used to serve desktop >> applications to users. >> > > Hmmm, we found z > The secondary server can also have the home file system, by using ChironFS. > The 2 home file systems will appear as one "virtual" file system mounted on > the 2 servers. If the master or the slave crash, the home will still be > present. See http://furquim.org/chironfs/ > > I didn't tried it yet, but I will ! > > regards > Hmmm, we had this running for a while on the school, remote starting firefox and openoffice from another server but in the end it proved more economical (regarding use of resources) to have just one file/home server mounted nfs on both servers and do a dhcpd failover configurations. That runs way smoother. There are quite a bit of issues with remote apps. Think about security...or when you use ssh all the overhead thereoff...
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