Ok I think I have been able to get things going using the NAT howto you sent me
to.
I believe there is an error in the howto however.
It says to enable ip_forward in /etc/network/options. As far as I can see,
/etc/network/options has been deprecated in favor of /etc/sysctl.conf
Adam.
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From: Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 4:09:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problems with Firefox as a local app
Hi,
On Mon, 08 Dec 2008, Adam York wrote:
> I have installed Firefox as a local app using the method documented here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTSPLocalAppSetup
> The version of FF running on the terminal server can access the web
> without any problems. I have tried to access sites solely by ip
> addresses, but no joy. The only address I was able to reach with the
> client/local version of firefox was the cups server running on the LTSP
> server box. LTSP is on eth1 192.168.0.1. I was able to access the cups
> server by pointing FF to port 631 on the address owned by eth0
> 192.168.1.2.
> I'm not sure what else to do to get the local version of FF to be able to
> get to web sites. Anyone with an idea?
At a guess, your LTSP server is a 2-interface setup and the client can't
get out off the local 192.168.1.0 subnet. If this is correct, you'll need
to either route the traffic through the LTSP server
The simplest way to achieve this is arguably to setup a web proxy (eg
squid) on the ltsp server but that will only work for web access and not
for other things (suppose you install skype or some such later as a local
app on the thin clients). You can set up NAT for the thin clients like
this:
https://wiki.edubuntu.org/ThinClientHowtoNAT
The article doesn't mention DNS. You need to be able to make dns requests
from the client, eg
dig www.ubuntu.com
should return a correct dns entry for the above. Perhaps this is
automatic, I'm not sure, but your thin clients need to either have an
upstream dns server configured or use the ltsp server (which must then run
dnsmasq, bind or some other dns forwarder).
> I'm hoping the local version of FF will provide a little smoother flash
> experience.
Sounds plausible, presuming your thin clients are of sufficient spec.
Gavin
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