Re: [Ltsp-discuss] High availability with fat clients using LTSP

2014-08-17 Thread Darryl Bond
we've used a combination of glusterfs and keepalived to provide completely bumpless failover for the thin clients. Glusterfs exports a shared NFS filesystem that is identical between servers, ie identical inodes etc. (Glusterfs has it's own inbuilt NFS server) Keepalived uses VRRP to maintain a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] screen resolution

2007-10-08 Thread Darryl Bond
I use this to get a generic 1440x900 to display on LTSP4.1. Some old VIA chipsets cannot display widescreen though. X_VERTREFRESH = 56-76 X_HORZSYNC = 30-82 X_MODE_0= 1440x900 106.47 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] WYSE Windows CE Thin Clients

2007-10-04 Thread Darryl Bond
Kevin Blackwell wrote: I was wandering if anyone has been using the WYSE thin clients in the implementation of LTSP. We have a ton of Windows CE thin clients and I'm not showing any evidence that they will work in this environment. I have been doing some testing with a S50 Wyse terminal

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] I need to remote reboot a LTSP 5 client

2007-08-28 Thread Darryl Bond
as cgi and is simply brilliant. Regards Darryl Bond Karl. wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:22:02PM -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: Sherwood Botsford wrote: Why are you reluctant to run ssh? The biggest problem with running sshd on the thin client is mainly a performance issue

[Ltsp-discuss] Via Eden clients PXE failure on second boot

2006-05-18 Thread Darryl Bond
All, I have a strange problem with new VIA Eden clients. The clients will not boot PXE after a warm boot. The message displayed is: VIA T6102 Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter v2.13 (2002/08/09) PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel PXE ROM The clients work perfectly using the standard LTSP 4.1 kernel (2.4)

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] IGEL Thinclient

2006-05-17 Thread Darryl Bond
IGELs work fine. Just set them up for PXE boot in the bios. I also ripped out the disk-on-chip as well. I did get best results by setting the /etc/vidlist entry for the IGEL to use the nsc driver rather than geode 1078:0104 nsc #Cx5530 Video Controller Regards Darryl Bond

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] help setting up an HP Scanjet 2300c scanner

2006-02-12 Thread Darryl Bond
I have a HP scanjet 2300c. I have not used it in an LTSP environment but this might help. I run Fedora Core 4 and it did not recognise the scanner. After a bit of googling I found that the latest sane backends have the genesys driver. The Fedora Core 5 repo had the version that supported the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ICA bootup problems LTSP4.1

2005-10-06 Thread Darryl Bond
ICA works great in LTSP environment. You probably don't have the /usr/lib/ICAClient in your search path. Add PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/ICAClient to your wfica screen script. This might not be the best way to do it. I set it up so that it starts the wfcmgr so that the user has to click a button

[Ltsp-discuss] Recommended Wireless PCI card

2005-09-12 Thread Darryl Bond
Hi all, What (currently available) wireless PCI cards would you recommend to work with the wireless_ltsp package. Regards Darryl DISCLAIMER The contents of this electronic message and any attachments are intended only for the addressee and may contain legally

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] insane suggestion

2005-06-29 Thread Darryl Bond
Not so insane, Back in LTSP2.0 days the client mounted the LTSP servers /usr directory. My server was a Sun Solaris box with a copy of a Redhat 7.2 linux directory structure (with compiler etc) that was mounted by the clients. I had several old production Linux boxes (Redhat 7) that did not

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin-client hardware- my experience

2005-06-01 Thread Darryl Bond
*//*Noticed this on http://www.gamedude.com.au (A Brisbane- Australia vendor). I haven't got around to finding out any details. The price is very good (78c $US = 1 $AU). */ THIN CLIENTS - Server Solutions/* GameDude computers is proud to offer thin client solutions to Australian business,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Dual monitors on a client

2005-03-17 Thread Darryl Bond
then tweak stuff like xinerama, monitor location etc. I will tidy this up and put it on the Wiki Regards Darryl Bond David Morris wrote: Hi, I'm successfully running a ltsp 4.1 install now. I was after any pointers to any how-to's or other information on how to setup dual monitors on my client

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] epia based clientsns freezes randomly

2005-03-03 Thread Darryl Bond
I have found that this setting helps with VIA Eden strangeness. X_DEVICE_OPTION_01 = SWCursor Regards Darryl Bond Stefan Istvan wrote: Hello List, I have problem with Via Epia motherboard based clients. The symptom is that sometimes after the start of X and connecting to the server, the mouse

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Windows client / emulator

2005-02-16 Thread Darryl Bond
Have a look at Using VNC to access an LTSP server http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/VNC Darryl Dunc wrote: Is there anyway to allow a Windows (or even a Mac for that matter) client to open an LTSP session in a window, say with an emulator or similar? Thanks, Dunc

[Ltsp-discuss] Xen virtual machine monitor

2004-11-08 Thread Darryl Bond
console on the new machine using the xm console command. If a migrated domain has any open network connections then they will be preserved, so SSH connections do not have this limitation. Regards Darryl Bond --- This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to test LTSP with a Windows client

2004-10-24 Thread Darryl Bond
Peter Rundle wrote: Darryl Bond wrote: 1. Create a vnc session in /etc/xinetd.d/vnc on the server [Snip] Thanks Darryl for this great tip. I've tried to get this working but have failed. I must have missed a step somewhere. If I login to the server and start vncserver, then go to the client

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to test LTSP with a Windows client

2004-10-19 Thread Darryl Bond
, the terminal must be closed. Is this possible with LTSP? Thanks for any help, -- Darryl Bond NRG Gladstone Operating Services Pty Ltd ( Gladstone Power Station ) [email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [voice: (07) 49 765756] [fax: (07) 49 765722] snail: PO Box 5046 Gladstone 4680 Queensland , Australia

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] compiling kernel with alsa

2004-10-19 Thread Darryl Bond
or how to install the old compiliner and keep the new one? -- Darryl Bond NRG Gladstone Operating Services Pty Ltd ( Gladstone Power Station ) [email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [voice: (07) 49 765756] [fax: (07) 49 765722] snail: PO Box 5046 Gladstone 4680 Queensland , Australia

[Ltsp-discuss] Lockups in ICA clients

2004-08-18 Thread Darryl Bond
showed when tracing the ICA client: ioctl(5,SNDCTL_DSP_SYNC, Then nothing, it was stuck in the kernel. I disabled the ICA sound and 100 people are happy. Now to build a kernel with ALSA instead of OSS drivers in it. How about it Jim? Regards Darryl Bond DISCLAIMER

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Fanless motherboards/cases?

2003-12-12 Thread Darryl Bond
We run heaps of the Epia 5000 fanless boxes, very reliably too. The only thing special about them is to turn off the Hardware Cursor. The trident video has some strange effects when using the hardware cursor - the hot spot is 20 pixels away from the graphic. LTSP V3 runs just fine. Darryl

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] EPIA Sound Drivers..

2003-09-25 Thread Darryl Bond
Matthew, Try MODULE_01 = sound MODULE_02 = via82cxxx_audio Regards Darryl Matthew Tedder wrote: I tried using the soundcore, uart401, and sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 settings in lts.conf and got an error with the sb module.. I tried the auto option and it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Question: Dell integrated nic 3com

2003-08-27 Thread Darryl Bond
Don't bother, use PXE instead. These boxes work just fine as LTSP terminals. Go into the bios menu and select network boot at the top of the boot list. Regards Darryl Bond Brian Delaney wrote: I have a series of Dell Optiplex gx150 pc with a integrated 3com 3C920 (3c905c-tx Compatible) nic

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] (Newbie post) Apropriate use?

2003-08-26 Thread Darryl Bond
Dan Scherer wrote: I need to build a number of diskless workstations along the following steps: 1. PXE boot 2. DHCP resolution 3. Load an OS (A shell session is fine, I don't need a GUI interface) 4. Map a network share (where the application bits live)

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] doku: usb-stick

2003-08-14 Thread Darryl Bond
Hello, I have usb storage devices working with the LTSP clients and Citrix Server hosting at the moment. I have not used it with a standard Linux server hosting though. To use it Add this snippet to the end of rc.local Note automount entry, This is the magic. When you attempt to access the

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: Netscape Local Printer

2003-07-24 Thread Darryl Bond
Darryl Bond vcare wrote: Thanks for the message and guideline, Still i am not able to print it on the local machine , the rlpr command gives following error rlpr: error: connect to host :connection refused fatal error client_open(): cannot connect to lpd More help is needed regards Dinesh

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: [K12OSN] Printing From Local Netscape

2003-07-22 Thread Darryl Bond
Have a look at rlpr. It does not need a local spooler for the client. It sends the data directly to the configured lpr daemon on the print server. I have been using it for a few years and not sure where I got it from but it is probably available from freshmeat. Regards Darryl Bond [EMAIL

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ltsp thin client and multi-head display

2003-07-08 Thread Darryl Bond
It's pretty easy if you generate a fresh XF86Config for each multihead display. I put my special XConfig files in a directory under /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/XConfig/terminal_name Substitute the terminal name for terminal_name eg ws001 Start the terminal in run level 3 At the prompt on the client # cd

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local hdd swap

2003-02-13 Thread Darryl Bond
This script (/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.d/hd_swap) can swap on to an MSDOS file on an existing filesystem if available. It will use a linux swap partition if available. BTW you must place a copy of fdisk in /opt/ltsp/i386/bin #!/bin/sh ## # Probe in

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] PXE boot

2003-01-29 Thread Darryl Bond
by LTSP). Regards Darryl Bond Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: Hello Tony, Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 1:48:43 PM CET, you wrote: TvdH OK, just to close this issue, and to express my thanks to all contributors: Some more comments. SCNR... [...] TvdH In fact, those two options are substantially

[Ltsp-discuss] Remotely rebooting a terminal

2002-12-19 Thread Darryl Bond
to allow some change to take and visiting 200 terminals is not fun. I have configured telnet and can log in to a terminal remotely. Regards Darryl Bond --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Geek Gift Procrastinating? Get the perfect geek gift

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp slower than vnc

2002-12-19 Thread Darryl Bond
. If the VNC viewer was console based one then it will have less RAM pressure which might point to the first one. All three of the above would make the performance very different between VNC and X. Regards Darryl Bond --- This SF.NET email

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] PXE booting - VIA Mini-ITX

2002-10-31 Thread Darryl Bond
David Mummery wrote: Dear list, Firstly my apologies for the length of this post, but I hope it will help someone to help me :-) I have got a SuSE server configured with LTSP-3.0 that I can use to successfully 'Etherboot' a VIA-ITX based system with one of the boot images from Rom-O-Matic.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] printer setup

2002-10-17 Thread Darryl Bond
I have never used SUSE so I am at a bit of a disadvantage. The LTS client is set up to emulate a HP Jetdirect, ie when you have the printer connected to the client and want to print from the server. You have set your server to look for a printer on a Unix box. ie with a print spooler etc. Can

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] It stops with the line: mounting root file system

2002-10-03 Thread Darryl Bond
/ltsp_initialize script? It should have set up your /etc/exports /etc/dhcpd.conf correctly. Regards Darryl Bond Ronald Wiplinger wrote: Darryl Bond wrote: Go back to ltsp.org download page and grab the V3 documentation from the download section. It will guide you through what you need

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] It stops with the line: mounting root file system

2002-09-30 Thread Darryl Bond
: Darryl Bond wrote: What version of LTSP are you running. This is the root path for LTSPV2.X If you are running ltsp V3 then the root path should be /opt/ltsp/i386 Do you mean it does not honor the CONIFG file: #= # Global settings

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] I tried it, but ....

2002-09-26 Thread Darryl Bond
There is also some doco in the contrib area on using bpbatch+LTSP Regards Darryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ronald, Grab the ltsp_pxestuff package from the LTSP.org download page. Within that package is a README that explains how to do it. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 26

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What is the best way to load balance ltsp servers?

2002-08-21 Thread Darryl Bond
. Regards Darryl Bond George Hart wrote: Hi, I am in a situation where my company will need to have at least four terminal servers to balance the load in the office. While ltsp works really good, I am having trouble figuring how to load balance these servers in a scaleable way. I took

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Via EPIA mini ITX display

2002-08-14 Thread Darryl Bond
Allen This works on my EPIA5000 with LTSP V3 [Default] XSERVER = auto X_MOUSE_PROTOCOL= PS/2 X_MOUSE_DEVICE = /dev/psaux X_MOUSE_RESOLUTION = 400 X_MOUSE_BUTTONS = 3 USE_XFS = N

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Why not a full linux install for the ltsp workstations?

2002-08-12 Thread Darryl Bond
The main reason is that modern distributions are optimised for the processor/glibc that it was installed on. It is very difficult to support some of the older processors with this in mind. Keeping a full distribution that will run on a 486 would be no joke. LTSP V2 used to do it this way. It

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] pxe boot + bpbatch

2002-07-09 Thread Darryl Bond
+ modules + rootfs = kernel + initrd for use with bpbatch. kernel + initrd + mknbi = tagged image for etherboot Regards Darryl Bond On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 20:48, jack slater wrote: I'm just starting pxe booting, so excuse the newbie question. Is it possible to boot pxe thru bpbatch without the hpa

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Starup files -- Where are they?

2002-07-03 Thread Darryl Bond
There was a problem with the sis900 NIC module in LTSP kernel 3.0+, get the latest one as it is based on 2.4.18 which is supposed to work with those NICs. linuxrc is part of the initram disk. It is in the ltsp_initrd_kit package which is not required to run LTSP. Regards Darryl Bond On Thu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Graphics Problem with VIA EPIA Mini-ITX boards

2002-07-01 Thread Darryl Bond
I had a similar problem with a VIA M/B also with trident video. Try setting X_DEVICE_OPTION_01 = SWCursor That fixed mine with no noticable performance issues. Regards Darryl Bond On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 08:57, John O'Gorman wrote: I had the same symptoms with the mini-ITX EPIA box

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Graphics Problem with VIA EPIA Mini-ITX boards

2002-07-01 Thread Darryl Bond
It's not quite right. You should be able to put into the XF86Config file Option SWCursor boolean ie X_DEVICE_OPTION_01 = SWCursor on but the lts.conf/XF86Config parser mangles it. Lucky it works without the 'on' Regards Darryl Bond On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 10:34, Francis Avila wrote: I had

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Graphics Problem with VIA EPIA Mini-ITX boards

2002-06-27 Thread Darryl Bond
I have the same problem with Shuttle M/B with VIA chipsets. They also use the trident blade graphics set. I haven't looked too hard, just reboot or crash the Xserver. Regards Darryl Bond Nigel Pallett wrote: Hi All, I've been testing these new VIA EPIA Mini-ITX boards as LTSP terminals

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] dhcp error

2002-05-22 Thread Darryl Bond
Edit /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd and change the line DHCPDARGS=eth1 and restart dhcpd service dhcpd restart this will tell dhcpd to only listen to eth1 Darryl Sheilafel Vida wrote: WE put the internet at eth0 and LTSP on eth1. We can run the internet on the server now. However, after making the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on Alpha - prefered distro?

2002-04-04 Thread Darryl Bond
-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net -- Darryl Bond _ Ltsp-discuss

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Asus TUSI-M (sis900.o) problems

2002-03-21 Thread Darryl Bond
root filesystem? Is NFS compiled into your kernel? Regards Darryl Bond John O'Gorman wrote: One step forward! I hacked the sis900.c file from kernel 2.4.18 src so that it would compile under the 2.4.9 tree. That wasn't too bad. Two things: commented out a macro MODULE_LICENSE (line 171

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] best configuration for two ltsp servers on samesubnet

2002-03-18 Thread Darryl Bond
Jeff Roberts wrote: I currently have a ltsp server version 2.08pre2 serving gnome desktops for about 20 desktops. the server is a dual pII-400 with 1 gig of ram and scsi drives. We have run this configuration for about a year with almost no problems. We only run netscape, ssh and the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Swap to local Disk

2002-03-11 Thread Darryl Bond
Martin Herweg wrote: Hi ! I'm still a bit confused , maybe because I'm not familiar with devfs. I load the kernel-modules modprobe ide-disk modprobe ide-probe-mod modprobe ide-mod then hdparm, mkswap, swapon still fails because /dev/hda /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 don#t

[Ltsp-discuss] Source for getltscfg

2002-03-05 Thread Darryl Bond
me to reduce the complexity of my ltsconf where I support many different client types of various ages -- Darryl Bond _ Ltsp-discuss mailing list To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://listssourceforgenet

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Igel/J aka WinNET 4 and LTSP

2002-02-25 Thread Darryl Bond
768 771 777 806 * As I said earlier, it is not reliable with LTSP3.0 on some models so it might not work at all on the ones you have?? Regards Darryl Bond Jürgen Zimmermann wrote: Hello, I wonder if someone uses an Igel/J Terminal successfully with LTSP. We have several Igel/J

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Windows DHCP?

2002-02-20 Thread Darryl Bond
I know it's a hack, but once the directory is mounted that is the last time it is a referenced. Try making a symbolic link between /opt/ltsp/i386 and /opt/ltsp/i386000 on the server ie. cd /opt/ltsp ln -s i386 i386000 It should work. NFS mounts will follow symbolic links. Darryl Bond

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Citrix ICA local app package

2001-11-27 Thread Darryl Bond
. -- Regards Darryl Bond Hans Petrie wrote: I also have had success installing the Citrix ICA client as a local app. Simply copy all of the files over into /ltsroot/usr/local/ica. It works great! Even has sound. This means you can completely skip the xdm login. But I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problem using LTSP and DSL

2001-11-22 Thread Darryl Bond
/usr/sbin/dhcpd eth0 Change eth0 to which ever interface is the one for LTS BTW I don't think you need to assign an address to the one connected to the DSL at all although I haven't had much experience with this. Regards Darryl Bond Oliver Krehan wrote: Hi all, first I have to say

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] eprom programmer

2001-11-22 Thread Darryl Bond
They are in bin (binary) format. Just rename the file to give a .bin extension. Regards Darryl Bond Vara Jambak wrote: All, I have installed ltsp with Mandrake 7.2. I have also installed etherboot-5.0-4 to get the image for my 3c509 which is 3c509.lzrom. The problem is I only have a DOS

[Ltsp-discuss] Distribute the bzImage with the initrd kit

2001-11-12 Thread Darryl Bond
with the earlier 2.09pre series. Can you please attach the 2 kernel images with the initrd_kit. -- Regards Darryl Bond _ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 2.0.9pre4 and IGEL ether terminals

2001-11-11 Thread Darryl Bond
success. The IGEL terminals are based on the Cyrix chipset and I have had plenty of wierdness in the past getting them to work with ltsp ie not accepting the kernel arguments from bpbatch. I realise that it may be an etherboot/mknbi problem. Any thoughts? -- Regards Darryl Bond