I am using RHEL 5.3 XDMCP server and Ubuntu Hardy w/ LTSP5 based clients - all working fine. Sound is also working fine - out of the box (esound). Not sure about USB though - I have never used it.... Ondrej
Lars Madsen wrote: > Hi LTSP users. For several years we have been running with the following > setup: > > 1 LTSP boot server (using LTSP version 4.2), from which the clients > boots and get an XDMCP chooser. The server is not used for anything else > (users cannot acess it) > > ~10 RedHat RHEL 4 servers the users can log into via XDMCP > > ~120-150 clients, old PCs pentium (586) and up > > The setup works fine, sound and USB access works for most clients. > > > Because of low server performance (low on RAM), I'd like to upgrade the > workhorse server hardware to something better, and a upgrade the > software to RedHat RHEL 5.3 > > But, and here is the problem, the X-server in the LTSP 4.2 clients and > the Gnome in RHEL 5.3 does not like each other so I basically need to > upgrade to LTSP5. But there is no LTSP support for RHEL 5.3, so my > question is what would you advise us to do in our case? > > It is not an option to switch entirely to Fedora, but I was thinking > whether it would be possible to use a Fedora based server as a new boot > server for the clients and then still be able to connect to the > workhorses using XDMCP? > > And what would need to be altered on the RHEL server such that USB > access and sound would work? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _____________________________________________________________________ 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
