Question about local device support

2007-10-18 Thread S. J. van Harmelen
Hi, I just read chapter 3 of the Edubuntu Gutsy handbook and understand quit a bit how it (LTSP) works now. This was exacly the kind of info I was looking for so thank you Scott. I still do have one (very) important question that isn't answered in the handbook. How can I use local devices?

Re: Question about local device support

2007-10-18 Thread S. J. van Harmelen
programs) a Windows desktop. So it sould be very nice if you can support both, with one and the same platform (one LTSP client connecting to both Linux and/or Windows desktops). But again, I do understand your point of view... Sander On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 09:53 -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: S. J

Some more details about LTSP

2007-10-17 Thread S. J. van Harmelen
Could someone please give me a document that describes how LTSP 5 works? I'm used to be working with Thinstation (http://www.thinstation.org) but for a number of reasons I'am looking for some other software. The LTSP implementation of Edubuntu seems the way to go, but I have a hard time getting

Re: Some more details about LTSP

2007-10-17 Thread S. J. van Harmelen
Hi, On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 15:42 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, S. J. van Harmelen wrote: 1) Booting with PXE you get some files from the tftpserver to start your thinclient with. I guess a vmlinux and a initrd. 2) While booting some scripts in the initrd mount

Re: Some more details about LTSP

2007-10-17 Thread S. J. van Harmelen
Ok, will have a look at that one! Thanks! Can you tell me where to find it in Gutsy? I do have a Gutsy Edubuntu server installed here... Or can I find it online? Sander On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 09:53 -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: The Edubuntu handbook in Gutsy has an excellent section on how

Re: Customizing Edubuntu's LTSP client to start another session

2007-10-16 Thread S. J. van Harmelen
Hi list... Is there nobody who can help me a bit with this? I'm trying al kind of things, but I just don't get a rdesktop session going. What can I do or try? Sander On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 15:29 +0200, S. J. van Harmelen wrote: Hi Oliver (or anybody else who can help), I thought I should

Re: Customizing Edubuntu's LTSP client to start another session

2007-10-16 Thread S. J. van Harmelen
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 14:05 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, S. J. van Harmelen wrote: So I did another test. I did a default ldm session and then tried to manualy start /usr/lib/ltsp/screen.d/rdesktop. But this resulted in the same behavior, and so I still could

Re: Customizing Edubuntu's LTSP client to start another session

2007-10-16 Thread S. J. van Harmelen
, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, S. J. van Harmelen wrote: So I did another test. I did a default ldm session and then tried to manualy start /usr/lib/ltsp/screen.d/rdesktop. But this resulted in the same behavior, and so I still could not check anything. I find

Re: Customizing Edubuntu's LTSP client to start another session

2007-10-16 Thread S. J. van Harmelen
McCullagh wrote: Hi, On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, S. J. van Harmelen wrote: 3436 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/ltsp/screen.d/rdesktop 3799 ?S 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/rdesktop -u -a 15 -f 212.45.52.101 -- :6.0 tty7 3800 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 \_ X :6.0 tty7

Re: Customizing Edubuntu's LTSP client to start another session

2007-10-15 Thread S. J. van Harmelen
Hi Oliver (or anybody else who can help), I thought I should first test this with rdesktop since this is already build-in. But when I do this I get a system that is constantly respawning. At least that's what it looks like. The screen flikkers a bit and then goes out for a second. And then again