[SLUG] LTSP and USB and 'full machines'
Hi all, I am trying to get some info on two topics: 1. I need to be able to use USB devices with LTSP4, specifically download images from a digital camera with an XD card. I have found some references but they involve a lot of command line work and my users will freak at that. I am running LTSP4 on FC2 and Gnome desktop. Is this possible? I think I know waht to do in the lts.conf but not sure then how to access the files. A ny clues references appreciated. 2. Is it possible to mix 'full' machines with LTSP machines? ie we have ten LTSP workstations, I could solve some of the USB issues if I had a machine with a local install of FC, but would need it to use the username/password from the LTSP server (nis?) and also use the home directory on the LTSP server or at least provide access to it through the desktop. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] LTSP and USB and 'full machines'
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 22:27, Simon Bryan wrote: 2. Is it possible to mix 'full' machines with LTSP machines? ie we have ten LTSP workstations, I could solve some of the USB issues if I had a machine with a local install of FC, but would need it to use the username/password from the LTSP server (nis?) and also use the home directory on the LTSP server or at least provide access to it through the desktop. It is definitely possible to mix fat and thin clients. I've got a client with two 'fat' video processing linux workstations (PCs) and several other 'thin' workstations (older PCs). You may need to set up extra services to provide LAN file sharing etc. The fat clients are going to need more client/server style while currently with thin client, everything is running on one box I guess? HTH Stuart Guthrie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] LTSP and USB and 'full machines'
Simon, 2. Is it possible to mix 'full' machines with LTSP machines? An alternative is to setup some LTSP machines to use 'local apps'. In this configuration rather than the applications running on the server with the X display being sent to the desktop, the servers file system(s) are attached to the desktop using NFS and the applications run on the CPU of the desktop. This means that the desktops hardware, such as USB ports, are local to the GUI applications. But the software resides on the filesystem of the server so you still get single point for software update and user file storage, but you off-load the CPU resource to the desktop PC. HTH P. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] LTSP and USB and 'full machines'
Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get some info on two topics: 1. I need to be able to use USB devices with LTSP4, specifically download images from a digital camera with an XD card. I have found some references but they involve a lot of command line work and my users will freak at that. I am running LTSP4 on FC2 and Gnome desktop. Is this possible? I think I know waht to do in the lts.conf but not sure then how to access the files. A ny clues references appreciated. Pretty sure it is possible, but no references sorry... 2. Is it possible to mix 'full' machines with LTSP machines? ie we have ten LTSP workstations, I could solve some of the USB issues if I had a machine with a local install of FC, but would need it to use the username/password from the LTSP server (nis?) and also use the home directory on the LTSP server or at least provide access to it through the desktop. Yes. NIS would do it, and mount the home directories via NFS. I think LDAP could be used also Sorry couldn't be more useful. Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] LTSP and USB and 'full machines'
On Wed, August 11, 2004 8:34 am, Peter Rundle said: Simon, 2. Is it possible to mix 'full' machines with LTSP machines? An alternative is to setup some LTSP machines to use 'local apps'. In this configuration rather than the applications running on the server with the X display being sent to the desktop, the servers file system(s) are attached to the desktop using NFS and the applications run on the CPU of the desktop. This means that the desktops hardware, such as USB ports, are local to the GUI applications. But the software resides on the filesystem of the server so you still get single point for software update and user file storage, but you off-load the CPU resource to the desktop PC. Until about 10 minutes ago the clients were all P90 with 32MB RAM, but have just been offered a stack of PIII with a lot of RAM so this might be possible now. Thanks for that. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
