I have to correct my last statement about LOCAL_APPS_EXTRAMOUNTS
which works fine if this parameter is within the default section [Default].
(see http://sourceforge.net/p/ltsp/mailman/message/34791176/)
> Now, I moved the mount-point (from /mnt/home2) to /home2
> and add the following line in /etc/ltsp/ltsp-update-image.excludes:
> home2/*
>
> The good news is that the mount-point is now visible also at the client
> side.
> However, the symlinks still do not work because nothing is mounted to
> /home2 yet.
>
> I've tried to get more information about the parameter
> LOCAL_APPS_EXTRAMOUNTS=/home2
>
> ...and found a link which explains that the extra mount (=/home2) will
> be mounted (to the client) only if the mountpoint in the chroot
> (=server) is empty ... which means that the idea of the parameter
> LOCAL_APPS_EXTRAMOUNTS is to share the same (empty) folder to several
> clients (e.g. for file exchange ...?)
> (see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/FatClients)
>
> Since my folder /home2 contains subfolders of all users (containing
> their Virtualbox stuff) the above mentioned approach will not help.
> For that reason I will try to implement Helmuts idea, which might take
> some time.
>
> Further comments are welcome ...
> Truth
>
>
>
>
> On 21.01.2016 16:24, Truth wrote:
>> to Vlaltteri:
>> --------------
>> As you can see from the previous post I see the home directory mounted
>> via sshfs.
>>
>> The server has multiple users which I want to distribute to several clients.
>> The login screen on the client shows a prompt for user-name (and later
>> for the password).
>> (I'm not sure if this is what you want to know.)
>> However, I'm able to login for different users.
>>
>> I've tried LOCAL_APPS_EXTRAMOUNTS=/mnt/home2
>> which sounds really promising.
>> Unfortunately, the additional mount-point is not visible after a reboot
>> of the client (and the server).
>> Do I have to rebuilt the image first?
>>
>> The symlinks within /home/truth are visible also on the client side.
>> However, the symlinks point to a mount-point which does not exist, e.g.:
>> VirtualBox VMs -> /mnt/home2/truth/
>>
>> Any further suggestions?
>>
>>
>> to Helmut:
>> -------------
>> As far as I understand LTSP is able to use nbd or nfs - however, running
>> LTSP-PNP on kernel 4.3 seems to allows only nbd
>> (seehttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786925)
>>
>> Nevertheless, even if nfs would be possible I would prefer to not mix to
>> many filesystems.
>> For that reason I would prefer to first follow Vlatteris approach ...
>>
>>
>> Truth
>>
>>
>>
>> On 21.01.2016 13:56, Valtteri Suojanen wrote:
>>> can you see any home directory ( most of it) after logging in to the
>>> desktop session? session is served default from the boot/ltsp server.
>>> you should get the home/user mounted from ltsp server without changing
>>> anything. home directory is mounted with sshfs
>>>
>>> how do you use this ltsp server? is the setup built for multiple users
>>> or just one user/you?
>>>
>>> keep in mind that consideration how your server is used and
>>> Check lts.conf manpaged and try:
>>>
>>> a) LOCAL_APPS_EXTRAMOUNTS=/mnt/home2
>>> or
>>> b)just create the symlinks in the home directory and test login from
>>> client (check from manpage SSH_FOLLOW_SYMLINKS)
>>>
>>> or if nfs mount sounds ok
>>> c) check NFS_HOME (is it depricated?). maybe search here in
>>> ltsp-discuss how FSTAB has been used to do nfs mounts
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Valtteri Suojanen
>>>
>>> 21.1.2016 13.09 "Truth" <tru...@gmx.de <mailto:tru...@gmx.de>> kirjoitti:
>>>
>>> On 21.01.2016 11:16, Truth wrote:
>>> > On 21.01.2016 05:15, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>>> >> On 2016-01-20, Truth wrote:
>>> >>> While everything was fine with my test-setup using Debian 8.2
>>> (i386,
>>> >>> linux-3.16) ...
>>> >>> I tried to install the same ltsp-pnp server on Debian 8.2 (using
>>> >>> linux-4.3 from the backports).
>>> >> You'll need the backported LTSP packages from jessie-backports,
>>> and may
>>> >> as well get updated LDM packages while you're at it.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>> I tried to create an image with the command
>>> >>> ltsp-update-image --cleanup /
>>> >>>
>>> >>> and get the following error message:
>>> >>> modprobe: FATAL: Module overlayfs not found.
>>> >>> modprobe: FATAL: Module aufs not found.
>>> >>> No overlayfs or aufs support detected
>>> >>>
>>> >>> (I did not have this problem with linux-3.16.)
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Does someone has an idea what's wrong?
>>> >> The issue is that 4.x kernels in jessie-backports don't have aufs
>>> >> support, and the version of LTSP you are using doesn't have
>>> support for
>>> >> the overlay fs included in the 4.x kernels (not to be confused with
>>> >> overlayfs, which was shipped with ubuntu, but behaved somewhat
>>> >> differently).
>>> >>
>>> >> The newer versions of LTSP fix this issue, although required
>>> switching
>>> >> to NBD rather than NFS, as overlay fs is incompatible:
>>> >>
>>> >>https://bugs.debian.org/786925
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> live well,
>>> >> vagrant
>>> > Thanks for your input.
>>> > I've installed ltsp-server-standalone and ltsp-client from the
>>> > backports (ldm was already the latest version).
>>> > Nevertheless, on a first try I've got the same error message.
>>> >
>>> > I've tried several things and finally ltsp was running.
>>> > I'm not quite sure what exactly made the difference but it could
>>> be that
>>> > apt-get -t jessie-backports upgrade
>>> >
>>> > ... solved the problem.
>>> >
>>> > Now, when running ltsp-update-image --cleanup /
>>> > I get a nice image and (almost) everything is fine.
>>> >
>>> > However, is there a way to make an image including symlinks?
>>> > Some parts of my home-directory (e.g. some virtualbox stuff) is
>>> located
>>> > in a separate partition which is mounted to /mnt/home2 and I use
>>> > symlinks to connect to this mount.
>>> >
>>> > Many thanks in advance.
>>> > Truth
>>>
>>> I've just realized that the home-directory can not be part of the
>>> image.
>>> However, I guess that I need to modify a config-file (how?) to
>>> solve my
>>> problem ...
>>>
>>> Truth
>>>
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