Re: [openthinclient-user] Raspberry PI
Dear Rob et al, There has been an expression of interest in getting iPXE running on the Pi (http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2012-September/001878.html) but as far as I can tell it has not been done, so unless someone fancies completing that work then having OTC locally on the SD sounds like it would be the best option. I have an early Pi model B, so less memory than the current ones, and find it very useful for lots of things. I'd originally questioned its use as an OTC client as it isn't exactly blisteringly fast. However, on further thought this idea may actually make a lot more sense than I'd thought. If the monitor it is used with contains a USB hub, then you should be able to power the Pi from the monitor. The big problem though is going to be getting an OTC client image for the Pi. Given that Raspbian is a version of Debian Wheezy, the general environment should be OK but I don't think it will just be an ARM port that is needed. There are other considerations, such as the selection of whether the Pi is using the HDMI connector or the composite video (/boot/config.txt in Raspbian), which are likely to need non-standard features. This sounds like it may be a significant task, and would mean cross-compiling the OTC core which I suspect does not make economic sense for the OTC developers when the target is a very specific piece of hardware. A possible alternative would be to use QEMU to emulate the Pi but with much more memory and then create an OTC development environment on the emulated machine. Given that the OTC core doesn't come from the development OS, I'm not sure that this would actually help much. Much though I like the Pi (particularly as they are that rare thing - something which is actually made in the UK!), I think a miniature x86 is more viable for OTC, unless there is someone out there who plans to use the Pi for a large number of OTC clients and thereby make it worthwhile? All the best, Mark On 27/01/14 16:04, Frank Burnham wrote: I was interested in this too; Pi B out of the box does not, but according to this thread it can be done with some work: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7t=1444 I like the idea of the cubbiebaord2 though as mentioned by Miguel; thanks. If anyone has practical experience of implementing OTC via these devices there appears to be some interest in the OTC community Regards, Frank -Original Message- From: Robert Charlebois [mailto:r...@baytechplastics.com] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 5:49 AM To: openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [openthinclient-user] Raspberry PI Yes I was thinking model B. is the chip in the Pi not PXE compatible? Even booting from SD would be nice as an inexpensive OTC device. Low power consumption as well. Rig it up to a case that you can attach to VESA mount on the back of a monitor and it makes for a real compact work environment. Our current use of OTC is just as a terminal for users to log into any otc client and rdp to a certain pre-defined machine. Perhaps I am missing something here but I thought it would be a great idea. Rob... Message: 1 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:33:46 + From: Mark D-B newsgroup@virginmedia.com Subject: Re: [openthinclient-user] Raspberry Pi To: openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 52e0474a.9070...@virginmedia.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear Robert, Would you mind explaining what you have in mind please? I am guessing that you mean using the Pi model B as client, booting from the SD card rather than PXE, but I can't see an obvious use case for the Pi with OTC. All the best, Mark On 22/01/14 18:15, Robert Charlebois wrote: Any thoughts or plans about porting OTC to Raspberry Pi? Robert Charlebois Systems/Network Specialist Baytech Plastics Inc 320 Elizabeth Street Midland, ON, L4R 4L6 P: 705-526-0591 x 354 C: 705-427-0546 F: 705-526-3521 E: r...@baytechplastics.com W: www.baytechplastics.com -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user Message Security: Click below to verify authenticity http://www.exchangedefender.com/verify.asp?id=s0RG4kjJ025452from=fburn...@ofwf.com -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn
Re: [openthinclient-user] Automatic shutdown issues: Wrong Time and Message
Hi Andreas, Re Problem 1: When you type date, does it give you something other than GMT or UTC at the end of the resulting line? I get Sun Jan 26 21:14:11 GMT 2014. Now, this happens to be correct for my timezone anyway as I'm in the UK. I'm guessing that you should get CET. I don't know this for sure, but it could be that OTC is set to have the BIOS time as UTC. It will then add an hour to the BIOS time to give you CET. Because your BIOS time is already 1 hour ahead of UTC, this would result in the offset you are seeing. I can't recall seeing anything OTC-specific relating to this but I do know that both Mageia (the distro I normally use) and Ubuntu use UTC hardware clock by default. Unfortunately, Windows doesn't use UTC by default so you will have an annoyance if you boot the machine into Windows. This may be useful: http://askubuntu.com/questions/169376/clock-time-is-off-by-4-hours. Re Problem 2: As shutdown uses wall, and this is not trapped by the GUI, you don't get a message on the display. For an immediate shutdown, this has been suggested: |zenity --warning --text Shutdown imminent --display=:0|; |shutdown -h now|. This isn't any use to you though, as the timing comes from shutdown. Hopefully someone else on the list can come up with a solution - all I can think of at the moment is running a script via cron, and I don't know whether it is possible to create an OTC application to do that. All the best, Mark On 26/01/14 17:38, Andreas Mayer wrote: Hello, two things with automatic shutdown. Problem 1: After a lot of testing I realized, that the time of the thinclient ist not right. It is one hour ahead. I use OTC minerva, in Standorte I have Zeitzone Europe/Berlin. When I open a Terminal and write date I see that the time is one hour ahead. BIOS time is set correctly. Problem 2: Is it possible, that a User sees a Message that the Client will be Shut down? Thanks, Andreas -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
Re: [openthinclient-user] openthinclient in vmware workstation
Hello Andreas, I apologise that this is in English rather than German but my German is inadequate to make a response. It is a matter of creating a virtual machine which PXE-boots. I do this regularly with VirtualBox. I believe that the article http://smallbusiness.chron.com/setting-vmware-workstation-pxe-boot-32170.html should allow you to do the same with VMware. Best regards / Mit freundlichem Gruß Mark On 25/01/14 17:17, Andreas Mayer wrote: hat jemand eine Idee, wie man für Testzwecke einen virtuellen Thinclient in vmware Workstation verwenden kann. Da die vmware Tools fehlen ist der Client eigentlich nicht zu bedienen. Ich bräuchte dies um eine Doku zu schreiben. -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
Re: [openthinclient-user] Raspberry Pi
Dear Robert, Would you mind explaining what you have in mind please? I am guessing that you mean using the Pi model B as client, booting from the SD card rather than PXE, but I can't see an obvious use case for the Pi with OTC. All the best, Mark On 22/01/14 18:15, Robert Charlebois wrote: Any thoughts or plans about porting OTC to Raspberry Pi? Robert Charlebois Systems/Network Specialist Baytech Plastics Inc 320 Elizabeth Street Midland, ON, L4R 4L6 P: 705-526-0591 x 354 C: 705-427-0546 F: 705-526-3521 E: r...@baytechplastics.com W: www.baytechplastics.com -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
Re: [openthinclient-user] Can't mount installed applications on the Thin client
Dear Jörn, Where is IceWeasel please? I've tried Search for updates on Package Management but all I get as Installable packages are ibm and rdesktop. I can't see any IceWeasel files in http://packages.openthinclient.org/openthinclient/v2/manager-rolling either. All the best, Mark On 16/01/14 13:25, Jörn Frenzel wrote: What Steffen means is: Please do never ever mix up V1 and V2 packages. Old packages are binary incompatible with the version due to a new version of squashfs. Cleanup your sources list to use only one version! Btw: You'll find some of the usual packages already inside the base-package. IceWeasel and rdesktop are build in. Please also check our updates regularly. We have released some new packages after consus was born. Regards, Jörn Am 16.01.2014 12:43, schrieb Mahmoud Ramadan Ali: so do u mean that some v1 packages will work fine and the others not or all v1 packages will not be mounted on OTC V2 and if so i want to know how to mount any v1 package...can u guide us please through the steps required for that... On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Steffen Hönig s.hoe...@openthinclient.com mailto:s.hoe...@openthinclient.com wrote: Dear Mark and Mahmoud, there is only a limited possibility of providing compatibilities for the mentioned packages. Due to the different filesystem structure and python libs, the typical launcher script changed a great deal. Technically you can mount a v1 package, but as you guys experienced, the launcher will only work partially if at all. Greetings from Dresden Steffen On Thu 16 Jan 2014 01:30:46 AM CET, Mark D-B wrote: Dear Mahmoud et al, It was not clear to me that the usual applications, such as FireFox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, do not yet exist in the v2 package library. Mahmoud's posts however suggested to me that this may be the case. Looking at the v2 area, it is clear that there is only the fundamental OTC content there at the moment. I have found that the following content for sources.list provides the capability to add applications without upsetting the core components: # v1 - needed for packages that don't exist in v2 yet! deb http://packages.openthinclient.org/openthinclient/v1/manager ./ # v2 rolling deb http://packages.openthinclient.org/openthinclient/v2/manager-rolling ./ However, I have the same issue as Mahmoud when trying to use the v1repository for FireFox and LibreOffice - the icons appear on the client desktop but they are not mounted into /opt so do not work. Is it simply that we can't use v1 packages with v2? All the best, Mark On 14/01/14 21:46, Mahmoud Ramadan Ali wrote: Hello and welcome every one... I have successfully installed OTC Consus V2 on Debian V6.2 and i have installed some applications on the OTC server like Gedit and GTK from OTC V1 repository and assigned the installed application to appear on my OTC client but during the client boot process i can NOT see the applications mounted so i can NOT access them from the client after it's boot process...here is a snapshot to how it's look like on the OTC client during the boot process...plz help me to resolve this issue and thanks in advance... Inline image 1 -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user
Re: [openthinclient-user] Consus virtual machine - Java 7 Update 51
Dear All, As I suspected would happen in my post below, Oracle have now made it so that the OTC Manager will not run with Java 7 Update 51. The temporary (not for a production server) solution is to add http://localhost:8080 to the site exceptions as described at http://www.java.com/en/download/help/appsecuritydialogs.xml This then allows it to bring up the same complaint box as it used to. All the best, Mark On 11/01/14 17:32, Mark D-B wrote: Dear All, I am running the Consus VM, with a view to migrating to it because of the rolling release support and reduced admin overhead. However, I am confused by that fact that it says Stopping openthinclient,org 1.0.0 when it is closing down. I thought Consus was the first in the 2.x family? In order to install VirtualBox guest additions, I have done a sudo apt-get update. Whether this is causing the following I don't know. When I start the manager, I get a complaint from Java that it does not like the publisher being UNKNOWN and that running these will be blocked in a future release. I have to tick the I accept the risk and want to run this application box every time I start the manager. Also, I am getting nothing when I refresh Installable packages. Is there something wrong with the package settings in the VM? All the best, Mark -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
Re: [openthinclient-user] Can't mount installed applications on the Thin client
Dear Mahmoud et al, It was not clear to me that the "usual" applications, such as FireFox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, do not yet exist in the v2 package library. Mahmoud's posts however suggested to me that this may be the case. Looking at the v2 area, it is clear that there is only the fundamental OTC content there at the moment. I have found that the following content for sources.list provides the capability to add applications without upsetting the core components: # v1 - needed for packages that don't exist in v2 yet! deb http://packages.openthinclient.org/openthinclient/v1/manager ./ # v2 rolling deb http://packages.openthinclient.org/openthinclient/v2/manager-rolling ./ However, I have the same issue as Mahmoud when trying to use the v1repository for FireFox and LibreOffice - the icons appear on the client desktop but they are not mounted into /opt so do not work. Is it simply that we can't use v1 packages with v2? All the best, Mark On 14/01/14 21:46, Mahmoud Ramadan Ali wrote: Hello and welcome every one... I have successfully installed OTC Consus V2 on Debian V6.2 and i have installed some applications on the OTC server like Gedit and GTK from OTC V1 repository and assigned the installed application to appear on my OTC client but during the client boot process i can NOT see the applications mounted so i can NOT access them from the client after it's boot process...here is a snapshot to how it's look like on the OTC client during the boot process...plz help me to resolve this issue and thanks in advance... -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
Re: [openthinclient-user] Openthinclient and gpxe/ipxe
Hi Mick, The mechanism used is described here http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.thin-clients.openthinclient.user/192 - old, but I believe the principle is still the same. I think you really do need to use a traffic analyser such as Wireshark at this stage - it may be that the request doesn't get sent to the OTC server. All the best, Mark On 07/08/13 08:04, Mick Grach wrote: 2013/8/6 Mark D-B newsgroup@virginmedia.com mailto:newsgroup@virginmedia.com Hi Mick, Sorry that this is a bit brief - got to sort some work stuff out. However, I think I recall something similar to your output being shown on one of the archives of this mailing list and that you should not need to create pxelinux.cfg but that it is dynamically built by the OTC server. Again, I'm working from memory here, but I think it was suggested that the below is what you get if OTC doesn't have 00-15-60-ca-42-c7 as a known client. Please check that the MAC address matches a client you have configured. I confirm it matches a thinclient, if i boot from network with the normal notebook PXE function it works like a charm, but doesn't if i boot with gpxe or ipxe All the best, Mark On 05/08/13 11:54, Mick Grach wrote: Ok, if i run the command chain tftp://192.168.76.64/pxelinux.0 http://192.168.76.64/pxelinux.0 this is the output: PXELINUX 3.11 Debian-2006-03-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin ... various informations about my ip etc ... TFTP prefix: Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/01-00-15-60-ca-42-c7 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0A84C51 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0A84C5 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0A84C Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0A84 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0A8 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0A Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/DEFAULT Could not find kernel image: linux boot: Ok i see that i need to create one of these files with the correct configuration. Is there a guide to do that? Should the pxelinux.cfg folder be created inside /opt/openthinclient/server/default/data/nfs/root/tftp/ ? -- Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solutionhttp://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https
Re: [openthinclient-user] Openthinclient and gpxe/ipxe
Hi Mick, Sorry that this is a bit brief - got to sort some work stuff out. However, I think I recall something similar to your output being shown on one of the archives of this mailing list and that you should not need to create pxelinux.cfg but that it is dynamically built by the OTC server. Again, I'm working from memory here, but I think it was suggested that the below is what you get if OTC doesn't have 00-15-60-ca-42-c7 as a known client. Please check that the MAC address matches a client you have configured. All the best, Mark On 05/08/13 11:54, Mick Grach wrote: Ok, if i run the command chain tftp://192.168.76.64/pxelinux.0 http://192.168.76.64/pxelinux.0 this is the output: PXELINUX 3.11 Debian-2006-03-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin ... various informations about my ip etc ... TFTP prefix: Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/01-00-15-60-ca-42-c7 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0A84C51 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0A84C5 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0A84C Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0A84 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0A8 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0A Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/DEFAULT Could not find kernel image: linux boot: Ok i see that i need to create one of these files with the correct configuration. Is there a guide to do that? Should the pxelinux.cfg folder be created inside /opt/openthinclient/server/default/data/nfs/root/tftp/ ? -- Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
Re: [openthinclient-user] Openthinclient and gpxe/ipxe
Dear Mick, I haven't tried this myself (no iPXE at home today) but it looks like something along these lines should work: |#!ipxe chain tftp://OTC SERVER IP ADDRESS/pxelinux.0| See http://ipxe.org/cmd/chain. This of course assumes that your OTC server has a fixed IP address. Note that you do not need to use the path on the OTC server - only the bit below the TFTP server root (which in this case is just pxelinux.0). This should not be necessary though, as the OTC proxy DHCP normally just works - it doesn't need a next-server set like most other thin client PXE setups. Your gPXE isn't a version prior to May 2009 is it, as this doesn't (according to Internet) support proxy DHCP? Also, if you are using user-defined mac addresses in iPXE for some reason, remember that this means that you will need a different client configuration in the OTC manager from that used for a hardware PXE boot as the client will not be recognised otherwise. If this still doesn't work, I advise using a network traffic analyser of some kind to see what is going on with the server(s) TFTP traffic responding to PXE - I have found this saves loads of time trying to work out why clients aren't booting. All the best, Mark -- Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
Re: [openthinclient-user] dhcp
Dear Mohan et al, This seems to be something which depends a lot on the DHCP server in use. I run OTC in a VM with the network adaptor in bridged mode. With a TP-Link router doing DHCP, PXE works with no issues. The same is true if I am using named and dhcpd. However, if I use dnsmasq instead then I need to specify both the the OTC server IP address and the boot file name in the configuration file, or PXE fails. Whether OTC would see the new client in these circumstances, I don't know, as the clients had already been added before I changed the network topology. Mohan - are you in a position where you can use Wireshark on the network? This will allow you to determine which step is failing. Also, just to be clear, this is a machine which is new to the server which is being PXE'd, yes? When you say that the PXE machine is not recognised, you mean that the machine's IP address is not appearing in the PXE section of the OTC manager display? OTC won't let you actually PXE boot a client until you have authorised it. All the best, Mark On 18/05/13 10:55, Mohan Kumar wrote: Hi Exactly my dhcp server is tfpd32 ver 4..0 with - ip 192.168.xx.200 ip pool---10 dns --192.168.xx.1 here there is field for boot file --- ? my otc machine ip 192.168.xx.201 i just installed and joined default realm. i am trying to boot the third machine via pxe it is not showing any thing. any help is appreciated. i wonder how it works curiosity 1000 %. Thank you - Original Message - *From:* Julian Ohm mailto:j...@ohm-meyer.de *To:* openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net *Sent:* Friday, May 17, 2013 11:48 PM *Subject:* Re: [openthinclient-user] dhcp Hi As i remember you should not set anything. Just configure your dhcp server to provide ip settings. OTC will handle pxe request by his self. Try to deactivate every kind of firewall. And OTC and dhcp must not be on the same Server. Greets Julian Von meinem iPad gesendet Am 18.05.2013 um 06:43 schrieb Luis R. Barahona luis.r.barah...@gmail.com mailto:luis.r.barah...@gmail.com: I think you are confused about which option you need to set in dhcp. Option 66 will contain the ip or FQDN of your OTC Server Option 67 will contain the name of your bootfile For OTC you only need to set option 66. Have you done this? -- AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified
[openthinclient-user] 100% CPU on client when starting applications
Dear All, I have a problem which seems to be getting worse. Sometimes, a client boots up slower than usual. Once it is booted, if the user starts an application, then the CPU load on the client (as indicated by the little graph at the top right of the display) goes up to 100% for several minutes before the application eventually starts (if the user doesn't give up and switch off before then). Once it has started, subsequent attempts to run the same application seem to be OK. I am surmising that the client is actually waiting for something to come from the server via the network when this happens. However, I can't see what is going wrong - there's no packet loss visible on the network. Any advice on what may be causing it, or how to investigate further, will be very gratefully received as this issue is becoming a significant problem. All the best, Mark -- AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
Re: [openthinclient-user] Firefox 17 and GTK
Dear Jörn, Would you mind advising whether /etc/skel/.mozilla is part of the base package please? I'd come to the conclusion that there are only effectively two filesystems created by OTC - /opt in opt and then everything else in base but I'm obviously wrong if /etc/skel/.mozilla/firefox comes from the firefox-17 package. All the best, Mark On 12/03/13 10:51, Jörn Frenzel wrote: Hi Mark, as far as i know, every firefox we (otc) have done, have a version in thier name. But please double check this. There maybe be other reasons why it does not work. Just some more word about firefox. Why are you trying to have an own firefox package? There is already one (the one inside the VM). Please use this repository to install it. deb http://devel.openthinclient.org/firefox-17/5f1b84gdfcf3e1d/ ./ As usual there is also a source package http://devel.openthinclient.org/firefox-17/5f1b84gdfcf3e1d/firefox-17_1.0.0-17.0.1-02.tar.gz Use this source and have your adaptions. See the README inside for instructions. Yesterday i've tried to build a package with firefox 19. But it seems we're missing some libs to run the new xul/xpcom stuff. We need a new base! Regards, Jörn On 11.03.2013 22:43, Mark D-B wrote: Thanks Jörn, that explains it. I'll stay with my own version of Firefox then as I can easily deploy the script that sets the path with it. With reference to Please never have two packages with the same name in different repositories - are you meaning that this is why my attempt to have a package called firefox didn't work? I can understand why it would cause problems if two packages have the same name, but I thought all the existing Firefox packages had the version on the end (-3, -5, -17). Is there another one that isn't visible from the Package management tree and is called just firefox? All the best, Mark On 11/03/13 10:42, Jörn Frenzel wrote: Hi Mark, Firefox needs some newer GTK version than the base packages delivers. So the newer one ist installed under /opt/gtk/ and must be used with LD_LIBRARY_PATH. In the base version of experimantal the separate GTK was joined into the base. Please never have two packages with the same name in diffenrent repositories. Regards, Jörn On 09.03.2013 23:25, Mark D-B wrote: Dear All, This problem is due to library paths. I've now got my own Firefox 17 package with a script to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that the correct version of GTK (/opt/gtk/lib) gets loaded but I'd ideally like to use the one from the OTC server. Does anyone know why it doesn't set the library path itself? All the best, Mark On 16/02/13 18:43, newsgroup account wrote: When I try and run Firefox 17 on the client, I get an error saying that Firefox needs GTK+ 2.10 but I only have GTK+ 2.8. This seems strange, as the server package manager says the installed package is 0.4.5-2.16-2, which I infer to mean GTK+ 2.16. Is there something wrong with paths? -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and remains a good choice in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and remains a good choice in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and remains a good choice in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester
Re: [openthinclient-user] Firefox 17 and GTK
Dear All, This problem is due to library paths. I've now got my own Firefox 17 package with a script to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that the correct version of GTK (/opt/gtk/lib) gets loaded but I'd ideally like to use the one from the OTC server. Does anyone know why it doesn't set the library path itself? All the best, Mark On 16/02/13 18:43, newsgroup account wrote: When I try and run Firefox 17 on the client, I get an error saying that Firefox needs GTK+ 2.10 but I only have GTK+ 2.8. This seems strange, as the server package manager says the installed package is 0.4.5-2.16-2, which I infer to mean GTK+ 2.16. Is there something wrong with paths? -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and remains a good choice in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
Re: [openthinclient-user] What's the registration password for the Wiki please?
Dear All, This question is no longer relevant as the registration password has now been removed from the Wiki. Thank you to whoever did so. All the best, Mark -- The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
Re: [openthinclient-user] Schema files
Dear Jörn, I've updated the name on this account - sorry about that, I hadn't spotted that the wrong field was filled in. Having had issues in the past with mailing lists and newsgroups resulting in spam, I have a specific account for these but I have recently changed it. Regarding the salutation, this is a tricky one with mailing lists as list etiquette seems to vary, and I apologise if I have caused any offence. I have been reprimanded on other lists for using unnecessary clutter so I have adopted a policy of not including a salutation until I am responding to a specific individual. I realise now that developers is not such a restrictive term for openthinclient as it is in some other projects - it often means specifically those who write the code (Java, C, C++, etc). Whereas I am capable of programming in C I am not able to commit the time to do so outside work but I will read the developer's guide and hope to be able to contribute to this interesting project as a re-packager. I have a learning curve to deal with first as I don't normally use Ubuntu. All the best, Mark On 17/02/13 11:36, Jörn Frenzel wrote: Dear newsgroup account, normaly all of us have names here in the list. Pleas edit you mailclient settings to a more specific name. Please also consider to use a salutation as well as a form of greetings. According to your questions: To understand the xml- and sfs stuff please read the developers guide http://openthinclient.org/developers%20guide Please find information about SFS here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_FS#References . A new package of libreoffice would be very welcome. Kind regards, Jörn -- The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
[openthinclient-user] Change password, was Re: change language to English
Hi Lee, As you probably saw in the download text, the default Ubuntu password is openthinclient, which is also the user name. To change it, in the terminal, use passwd openthinclient. As suggested just adjacent to the VM download link, you can also change the root password with sudo passwd root. All the best, Mark On 17/02/13 14:39, Lee Garet wrote: Thank you very much for the link I was able to change the language to English and am very much on my way of getting started Do you know of a link to change the system passwords for this as well? When I logged off of Ubuntu, I wasn't sure what password to use to log on. *From:*newsgroup account [mailto:newsgroup@virginmedia.com mailto:newsgroup@virginmedia.com] *Sent:* Saturday, February 16, 2013 5:48 PM *To:* openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [openthinclient-user] change language to english Sorry, forgot to paste this link http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17528/change-the-user-interface-language-in-ubuntu/ which was where I got the info from. On 16/02/13 21:57, Lee Garet wrote: Just downloaded the 1.09 vm Started right up, but being a newbie to linux, I cannot figure out how to change the default language to English Any help would be appreciated Thank you lee -- The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most recent posts - join the conversation now.http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solutionhttp://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
