Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp works like citrix?

2009-04-29 Thread CyberOrg
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mohammed Riswan jolie_...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Hi all, please answer my quesion if anybody knows, is ltsp is works like a citrix metaframe? can we create an individual sessions same like citrix for all the users? I appreciate if any1 could help me to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how to mount external hard drives? + log problem? - LTSP 5 on Ubuntu 8.04

2009-04-29 Thread Peter Stein
Works just fine with Jaunty. Unfortunately no backports - yeah means certainly a lot of work. 2009/4/24 Peter Stein peterstei...@googlemail.com: Ok, I added the line as suggest to reenable the non-removable device support. It doesn't really matter for us if users can access the thin clients'

[Ltsp-discuss] R: small chroot environement

2009-04-29 Thread EBardelli
The hardware of my clients is very poor : PII 200 mhz + 64 mb. They works quite well, but during my tests i saw that booting time and performances are proportionally at dimension of chroot image (/opt/ltsp/images/i386.img). I would try to create a small chroot image to see if the clients works

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp works like citrix?

2009-04-29 Thread Chris Roberts
On Wednesday 29 Apr 2009, Mohammed Riswan wrote: please answer my quesion if anybody knows, is ltsp is works like a citrix metaframe? can we create an individual sessions same like citrix for all the users? We use metaframe and ltsp, so I should be able to answer. Once the users have logged

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] small chroot environement

2009-04-29 Thread Chris Roberts
On Tuesday 28 Apr 2009, ebarde...@iris-group.it wrote: Hi, do you know how to create a small chroot environment for ltsp clients? I have created the default one with ltsp-build-client but the i386.img became 186 mb with xubuntu 9.04 and 150mb  with ubuntu 8.04. thank you! You don't usually

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp works like citrix?

2009-04-29 Thread Chris Roberts
Of course the other key difference is the lack of group policies for controlling users. I use kiosk-tool for kde (which is dreadful) and I understand there is pessalus for gnome (about which I know nothing). -- Chris Roberts +--+--+ | Distribution | Debian

[Ltsp-discuss] R: small chroot environement

2009-04-29 Thread EBardelli
Following the installation manual I run ltsp-build-client and it create the chroot image automatically. There is another way? I miss to do something? I have to work inside this directory (/usr/share/ltsp/plugins/ltsp-build-client/Ubuntu) ? How big is your i386.img? thank you Emanuele

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp works like citrix?

2009-04-29 Thread Ondrej Valousek
Chris Roberts wrote: Of course the other key difference is the lack of group policies for controlling users. I use kiosk-tool for kde (which is dreadful) and I understand there is pessalus for gnome (about which I know nothing). Yes, this is a pain - but I doubt Citrix metaframe server

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rdesktop lock ups

2009-04-29 Thread Chris Roberts
On Tuesday 28 Apr 2009, Chris Roberts wrote: Actually it is failing at 10-minutes not 20-minutes, and it is at the exact moment that the screen goes off. I am not quite as sure about this as I was, it seems that sometimes it survives the screen blanking at 10 minutes, but if it does survive,

[Ltsp-discuss] R: ltsp works like citrix?

2009-04-29 Thread EBardelli
We use citrix (SP4), we are migrating to ltsp because the last ica client (needed by new citrix version) does not work with W9X and without ltsp, that provide boot from lan, we would have had to change 200 old pcs Emanuele -Messaggio originale- Da: Chris Roberts

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] R: small chroot environement

2009-04-29 Thread Chris Roberts
On Wednesday 29 Apr 2009, ebarde...@iris-group.it wrote: Following the installation manual I run ltsp-build-client and it create the chroot image automatically. There is another way? I miss to do something? I have to work inside this directory

[Ltsp-discuss] R: R: small chroot environement

2009-04-29 Thread EBardelli
Ok...i'll try LDM_DIRECTX now i'm formatting my server with xubuntu 8.04 because I think that is a little bit thin... in lts.conf I have putted this parameters: XSERVER=vesa X_COLOR_DEPTH=16 X_MODE_0=1024X768 SOUND=False NBD_SWAP=False

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] R: R: small chroot environement

2009-04-29 Thread Chris Roberts
On Wednesday 29 Apr 2009, ebarde...@iris-group.it wrote: now i'm formatting my server with xubuntu 8.04 because I think that is a little bit thin... in lts.conf I have putted this parameters: XSERVER=vesa X_MODE_0=1024X768 Only if your client needs them, and if it does

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how to mount external hard drives? + log problem? - LTSP 5 on Ubuntu 8.04

2009-04-29 Thread Dan Maranville
Gotta love it that Long Term Support. Trust me it will not be the last time you curse it. /rant On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:23, Peter Stein peterstei...@googlemail.com wrote: Works just fine with Jaunty. Unfortunately no backports - yeah means certainly a lot of work. -- Dan Maranville

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how to mount external hard drives? + log problem? - LTSP 5 on Ubuntu 8.04

2009-04-29 Thread Jordan Erickson
http://laserjock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/sru-needs-you/ =) Dan Maranville wrote: Gotta love it that Long Term Support. Trust me it will not be the last time you curse it. /rant On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 03:23, Peter Stein peterstei...@googlemail.com wrote: Works just fine with

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rdesktop lock ups

2009-04-29 Thread Chris Roberts
On Wednesday 29 Apr 2009, Chris Roberts wrote: So this issue is nothing whatsoever to do with power management.  Has anyone else experienced random lock-ups with rdesktop? Any suggestions for debugging this problem? Bizarrely this issue turned out to be a routing problem, very occasionally

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rdesktop lock ups

2009-04-29 Thread Job Cacka
So after reading through your thread I would ask if you found any documentation on how the routing should be setup. Specifically a best practice for LTSP environments. I have seen other problems with LTSP performance because we do not use an internal DNS, and ended up creating a large host file

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how to mount external hard drives? + log problem? - LTSP 5 on Ubuntu 8.04

2009-04-29 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:21:55PM -0400, Dan Maranville wrote: Gotta love it that Long Term Support. Trust me it will not be the last time you curse it. /rant I'm really unsure as to why Ubuntu gets all this hate directed against them because they don't backport new features from more current

[Ltsp-discuss] Disable X dontzap

2009-04-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Just in case someone needs the same thing, to re-enable the Alt+Ctrl +Backspace shortcut in Jaunty I created /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/ltsp/screen-session.d/XS96-disable-dontzap with the following line as contents: X_ARGS=$X_ARGS -retro It would be nice to have an lts.conf option for that...

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Disable X dontzap

2009-04-29 Thread Jordan Erickson
Alkis, X_ARGS, IIRC, *is* an lts.conf option. Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: Just in case someone needs the same thing, to re-enable the Alt+Ctrl +Backspace shortcut in Jaunty I created /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/ltsp/screen-session.d/XS96-disable-dontzap with the following line as contents:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Single user account and pam mount

2009-04-29 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:26:40PM +0200, Marius Flage wrote: Jordan Erickson wrote: I would propose a temporary user of sorts that pulls from the skel/template you created, does a pam makehomedir or whatever it is, and removes it upon logout. This way, you have separate user accounts

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Disable X dontzap

2009-04-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 29-04-2009, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 13:04 -0700, ο/η Jordan Erickson έγραψε: Alkis, X_ARGS, IIRC, *is* an lts.conf option. Yeah, Lns you made my day :) X_ARGS=-retro in lts.conf works fine :) -- Register Now Save for

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how to mount external hard drives? + log problem? - LTSP 5 on Ubuntu 8.04

2009-04-29 Thread Dan Maranville
I'm really unsure as to why Ubuntu gets all this hate directed against them because they don't backport new features from more current releases into older ones.  As far as I know, LTSP current isn't being backported into either Fedora 3 or Debian Sarge. LTS means they fix the security and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how to mount external hard drives? + log problem? - LTSP 5 on Ubuntu 8.04

2009-04-29 Thread Jordan Erickson
...Or, as an alternative to installing the latest greatest, you could actually help backport these features into LTS. Community success requires community involvement. Period. Cheers, Jordan/Lns Dan Maranville wrote: I'm really unsure as to why Ubuntu gets all this hate directed against

[Ltsp-discuss] ltsp backports

2009-04-29 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 02:05:50PM -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:21:55PM -0400, Dan Maranville wrote: I'm really unsure as to why Ubuntu gets all this hate directed against them because they don't backport new features from more current releases into older ones. As

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp backports

2009-04-29 Thread Jordan Erickson
Vagrant Cascadian wrote: *snip* so the desires or needs for a backport may be a little different, as different distros progress in different ways. And most definitely they are different as user/environment upgrade schedules are always different. For instance, I don't dare run Jaunty (or

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how to mount external hard drives? + log problem? - LTSP 5 on Ubuntu 8.04

2009-04-29 Thread Dan Maranville
I am going to leave it with this: I didn't speak of LTSP in any negative way, I was simply making a statement about _MY_ experiences with the current LTS (bugs in this instance). Some are related to LTSP but not always, most are problems known about for greater than 1 year in mainline Ubuntu. If

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Single user account and pam mount

2009-04-29 Thread jam
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 15:53:20 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I would propose a temporary user of sorts that pulls from the skel/template you created, does a pam makehomedir or whatever it is, and removes it upon logout. This way, you have separate user accounts

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] R: small chroot environement

2009-04-29 Thread jam
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 15:53:20 ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: The hardware of my clients is very poor : PII 200 mhz + 64 mb. They works quite well, but during my tests i saw that booting time and performances are proportionally at dimension of chroot image

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how to mount external hard drives? + log problem? - LTSP 5 on Ubuntu 8.04

2009-04-29 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:22:22PM -0400, Dan Maranville wrote: It is because they recommend you install the latest non-lts to see if your problems are fixed. Period. Well, that's a valid request to see if the issues been fixed in newer versions. Either: 1) It DOES work in newer versions, and