Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Debian Jessie amd64 using nbd i386 client

2014-08-14 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-08-14, richard kweskin wrote: was creating the squashfs image in amd64 but for clients in i386 it was using 2 processors and of course took less time, but in the earlier configuration in i386 it used only one processor. ... Is it possible that some hardware only has access to both

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Lock Screen Options

2014-08-13 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-08-13, Graham Innes wrote: I've been looking for some time for a solution for screen locking on LTSP. We are currently using Xubuntu 12.04 fat clients but will be moving to Xubuntu 14.04 fat clients in the next month or so. I understand most lockers don't work due to lack of proper

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Debian Jessie amd64 using nbd i386 client

2014-08-12 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-08-12, richard kweskin wrote: Following the sucess with Jessie i386 I tried many of the same steps with an installation already in use without ltsp. The steps: 1 install dnsmasq ltsp-server-standalone ltsp-client lxde No need to install ltsp-client on the server unless you're going

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP-PNP fat client routing issue

2014-08-12 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-08-12, Michael Pope wrote: I've setup LTSP-PNP on a Xubuntu 14.04 system and I'm up to the last issue, which is my fat client cannot access the internet. What I mean by that is I cannot ping an external IP address on a fat client. ... Here are the routing tables LTSP Server routing

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Debian Jessie ltsp with nbd

2014-08-08 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
I had meant to send this to the list... On 2014-08-06, richard kweskin wrote: Now ltsp-update-image and ltsp-config lts.conf created ... but there is no pxelinux.0 which dnsmasq (as tftp server) expects. You'll need to install the pxelinux package, which is what ships pxelinux.0 now. It was

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] autoboot in ltsp-pnp setup

2014-08-08 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-08-08, Michael Pope wrote: Thanks to alkisg on IRC I had to copy my lts.conf file to /var/lib/tftpboot/i386 instead of amd64, even though I only run 64bit machines and only have a 64bit image available it still needs it in this directory. Just fixed this in bzr to fall back to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Debian Jessie ltsp with nbd

2014-08-05 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-08-05, richard kweskin wrote: Hoping to a use new install with a daily snapshot netinst (i386) from last week to run ltsp-pnp with nbd and not nfs on a simple (not virtual) server. Thanks for testing LTSP on Debian! I've been working on some of these very issues this last week...

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP-PNP under Xubuntu 14.04

2014-08-04 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-08-03, rkwesk_ltsp wrote: I am not sure of this and so did not speak to this previously. However, I believe that in order to populate the pxe boot with a kernel the script /usr/share/ltsp/update-kernels This shouldn't be necessary using ltsp-update-image --cleanup / or

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SSH to client on LTSP5 Wheezy

2014-08-01 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-08-01, Russell Brown wrote: I've got the client booting (PXE) and working (using NFS root) but need to be able to ssh onto it to check X setups, see what's on the USB bus, send tests to the parallel port etc etc. All the normal stuff. I'm curious if you need to check X setups because

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Support For MultiCore CPUs

2014-07-07 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 04:20:32PM -0300, Mored Berdat wrote: I have installed a Debian 7 x86_64 with LTSP-5.4.2 ( Debian 7 x86 - Fat). The system works fine, but the Fat Client only detects 1 core. I tested several models of CPU with same results. I tried install a kernel with SMP support,

[Ltsp-discuss] LMDE

2014-07-05 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 07:37:20PM +0200, Fabrizio Carrai wrote: We just implemented a LMDE LTSP server at our Linux User Group lab so we are just starting learning LTSP and I apologize for the newbie questions: Linux Mint Debian Edition? Is it correct that the Thin/Fat client mount via NFS

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Need non-PAE, true i386 compatible kernel - advice?

2014-06-26 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 03:29:23PM -0400, hazzmat wrote: Also following advice from another thread I googled up, I made a copy of the ltsp-build-client script to my-ltsp-build-client and edited it to state VENDOR=Debian. So my commandline for installing the client chroot environment was as

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Need non-PAE, true i386 compatible kernel - advice?

2014-06-25 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:55:47AM -0400, hazzmat wrote: I am seeking guidance on how to supply that i586 compatible kernel. Building the client with the arch-i386 option does not -with these Ubuntu packages at least- actually build an i386 compatible client/kernel. ... The ThinkNiC

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp-build-client and dist parameter

2014-06-25 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 07:35:41PM +0200, Fabrizio Carrai wrote: Can somebody explain me what the lts-build-client really does ? According to the man, the command with no parameters build a client chroot using the server distribution (please confirm that). What if I specify a --dist

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] disable local disks in fat clients

2014-06-17 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 03:02:17PM +, marwan al mor wrote: i want to , is it possible to diable local disks and usb in fat clients i tried this in lts.conf but wont work [defualt] LOCALDEV_DENY_USB = True LOCALDEV_DENY_DISKS = True That should disable LTSP-specific device access for

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] build ltsp-client with debian snapshot?

2014-06-16 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 07:51:48PM +0200, vla wrote: On september 2013 i built a ltsp-client-environment on a ltsp-server with debian wheezy. last week i cloned that server and rebuild the ltsp-environment. when i tried to boot from the new server, all my ati rage pro clients crashed while

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] acpid missing from init.d in wheezy ltsp-client

2014-06-06 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 03:45:28PM +0200, SZABO Zsolt wrote: I used the ltsp-build-client script on a wheezy ltsp server to install the ltsp-client root. Then using ltsp-chroot I installed acpi-support-base using apt-get. Everything was fine: the acpid init script is in its place in

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] installing Ubuntu 14.04 fat client on Ubuntu 12.04 LTSP server

2014-06-06 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 05:28:59PM +0100, Thomas Boehm wrote: how can I install the latest Ubuntu 14.04 on a LTSP server running Ubuntu 12.04? When I run ltsp-build-client --arch i386 --chroot ubuntu14.04 --fat-client-desktop ubuntu-desktop it installs version 12.04. I guess I could do a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu ltsp 5.5.1 some img questions

2014-06-06 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 08:56:07AM +, Funke, Martin wrote: Ltsp-update-image -c / builds the img / chroot for the clients. Every app on the server will be accessible after the build of .img. To determin that the client (Core2Duo 2x3Ghz 4GB ram ) runs as a fat client is to be set in

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] chroot without GUI?

2014-05-14 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:33:17AM +0200, Johan Kragsterman wrote: I'd like to install a fat client chroot without a desktop gui, for running a DVB server on a tiny client machine I got. My LTSP server is a edubuntu 64-bit. How would I build the client to NOT get the desktop gui? Or du I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] pcDuino as an LTSP client?

2014-05-06 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 08:30:27AM +0200, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: I've also dabbled with the Raspberry PI: http://cascadia.debian.net/trenza/Documentation/raspberrypi-ltsp-howto/ But I'm not particularly impressed with the results; some people have been using Raspberry PI thin/fat

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 1st boot - OK, 2nd boot - FAIL!?!?!

2014-05-05 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:36:03AM -0400, Tennant, Jacob wrote: I just booted up my first client on a fresh LTSP install on Ubuntu Server 14.04LTS and it worked. However when I shutdown the thin-client machine and restarted it, everything went as before except I got the following error;;;

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] pcDuino as an LTSP client?

2014-05-05 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 06:01:00PM +0200, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: I just read a discussion about pcDuino in another forum, and I thought this might give a nice client for LTSP with its 1 GB RAM. Do you agree? Or would you say 2 GB is better for today's work with browsers and stuff? It uses

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client mounts SD card, but not USB hard drives

2014-05-01 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:10:36PM +0200, Larry Tucker wrote: When I plug the same USB hard drive into my client machine, though, neither windows nor icons appear. In effect, nothing happens. When I open Thunar, the hard-disk(s) are nowhere to be found. The same goes for a separate USB

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ang: no sound on fat clients

2014-04-10 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 02:55:47PM +0200, Johan Kragsterman wrote: I give myself, and you other guys a hint, since I found this on pulseaudio in system mode: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/ WhatIsWrongWithSystemWide/ If you read that page, you'll see:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] fat client local apps...?

2014-04-04 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 12:11:38PM +0200, Johan Kragsterman wrote: I think I miss something here... Got Fat clients running, no problems with that, but can't get hold of how to start the local apps...? With fat clients, there's no need to run anything as a localapp, as essentially all the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Debian Wheezy - aufs - writeable /sbin, /bin /usr not desired

2014-04-01 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 10:58:33PM +0100, stumba...@yahoo.de wrote: we use LTSP as the base for our Diskless Server environment. We only install ltsp-client-core and manage the machines with scripts being called using /etc/ lts.conf. We do like the new way with aufs - it makes modifying

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Secure ALL data between the thin client and the LTSP server

2014-03-13 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:12:41AM +0400, Denis Croombs wrote: I would like to secure the network traffic between the thin client (PC booted from the LTSP server) using SSL or SSH to block any man in the middle attack, but cannot find any reference on how to do this, has anyone done this ? By

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] XRANDR dual monitors and XFCE

2014-03-13 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 04:59:40PM +1100, Michael Pope wrote: I'm trying to get dual monitors to work nicely on a thin client if I type the following when the thin client is up it works xrandr --output HDMI2 --mode 1920x1080 --left-of VGA1 --output VGA1 --mode 1024x768 If I put the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] mounting /dev/nbd0 on /root failed: No such file or directory

2014-03-13 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 09:14:37PM +0100, Larry Tucker wrote: On the server machine, I'm running Debian Testing. for future reference, try using ltsp-info to show specific information about your LTSP configuration. On it, I would like to run ltsp, but not dhcp, which is already provided by a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] lts.conf settings being ignored

2014-02-28 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 01:52:47PM -0500, Joseph Bishay wrote: Yesterday I was attempting to configure a printer attached to a thin client, when it wasn't working. I've done it many times so I know the procedure. I soon realized that my lts.conf is being processed but ignored. Nearly 6

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Busybox with ltsp 5.5 and xubuntu12.04

2014-02-25 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 09:39:23AM +, Funke, Martin wrote: at the moment im trying to get ltsp 5.5 with xubuntu 12.04 to run. ... -vim /etc/dnsmasq.conf - ... # Dnsmasq wird zu einem Proxy-DHCP. Die IP-Adresse ist diejenige des Servers dhcp-range=192.168.1.5,proxy # Ein PXE-Menü wird

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] opensuse 13.1

2014-02-20 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:26:45PM +0100, jef peeraer wrote: i installed this freshly on a test server, together with the ltsp packages. After some configuration, all seems fine, but a thinclient stops at the classic grey screen with cursor. I looked up kdmrc and modified as follows

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] usbflash unmount problem

2014-02-10 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 02:50:27PM +0400, Oleg wrote: We use debian wheezy based ltsp installation and gnome as DE. When we try to eject a usbflash in gnome, we get the error: umount: /media/user/flash is not in the fstab (and you are not root) I've read that ltspfsd unmount usbflash

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Password length for login ?

2014-02-04 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 05:44:13PM +0100, Edgar Kogler wrote: I'm running a debian wheezy server with ltsp, and found that users on our school Network with passwords longer than 8 characters or so cannot log in on the terminals. If you ssh to the wheezy ltsp server, does it have the same

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wheezy / fat_client / gnome-fallback

2014-01-21 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 09:02:25PM +, pierre bertin wrote: On a new ltsp install, I can boot a thin client with gnome-fallback (gnome classic) But with LTSP_FATCLIENT=true, I can only use gnome or lxde. (with gnome-fallback, juste a empty screen) ... This my lts.conf ...

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] IP autologin mess

2014-01-15 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 02:45:24AM -0600, Luis A. Guzmán García wrote: El jue, 09-01-2014 a las 10:33 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian escribió: On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 01:57:01PM -0600, Luis A. Guzmán García wrote: El mar, 07-01-2014 a las 23:42 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian escribió: On Wed, Jan 08

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] IP autologin mess

2014-01-09 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 01:57:01PM -0600, Luis A. Guzmán García wrote: El mar, 07-01-2014 a las 23:42 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian escribió: On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 12:29:32AM -0600, Luis A. Guzmán García wrote: So, to be clear. If i understand correctly, If i set a bunch of users and passwds

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] IP autologin mess

2014-01-08 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 12:29:32AM -0600, Luis A. Guzmán García wrote: I was all day (it's late night right now) trying to set up autologin for my ltsp server/thin clients. I'm using LTSP standalone v5.3.7 ... IIRC, there was somewhere that said i could set MAC instead of IP on lts.conf

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] updating tftp dirs with ltsp-pnp

2013-12-11 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 04:33:16PM -0500, John Hupp wrote: On 12/9/2013 5:15 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 12:39:38PM -0500, John Hupp wrote: On 12/7/2013 9:43 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 11:31:46AM -0500, John Hupp wrote: ... Regarding

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Where can I review/edit the initramfs init script?

2013-12-09 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 12:39:38PM -0500, John Hupp wrote: On 12/7/2013 9:43 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 11:31:46AM -0500, John Hupp wrote: Can I locate the init script somewhere on the server? Look in /opt/ltsp/arch/usr/share/initramfs-tools/ for all the code used

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Where can I review/edit the initramfs init script?

2013-12-07 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 11:31:46AM -0500, John Hupp wrote: I'm still troubleshooting the problem in which (on *buntu 13.10) client boot fails after the splash screen with 'Error: socket failed: connection refused.' First hunch sounds like a firewalling problem, or running old-style nbd (each

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cloning LTSP chroot

2013-09-03 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 04:45:31PM +0200, Matthew Wyneken wrote: With Ubuntu NBD LTSP it was no problem cloning a client chroot from one server to another by just rsyncing everything. After running ltsp-update-image I was able to use the new image from the clients. I was thinking it would be

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Debian 7 LTSP Pulseaudio possible fixes

2013-07-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 09:22:39AM -0500, Tom Wallis wrote: The main problem seems to be Pulseaudio is started in system mode and can easily crash or lock up in the default configuration.The first part of the possible fix I am using comes from this list in a transcript of an IRC

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Only BusyBox initramfs no matter what I do

2013-07-17 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 02:29:13PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:47:23PM -0700, James Butler wrote: No interfaces found! Aborting... ... ipconfig: no devices to configure /scripts/local-top/nbd: .: line 34: can't open '/tmp/net-*.conf' The Linux kernel

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Only BusyBox initramfs no matter what I do

2013-07-15 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:47:23PM -0700, James Butler wrote: There is no problem for the clients to get an IP address from the DHCP server, and they all log in via TFTP. ... No interfaces found! Aborting... ... ipconfig: no devices to configure /scripts/local-top/nbd: .: line 34: can't open

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] upgrade problem Debian wheezy

2013-05-18 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:45:12AM +0200, sp113438 wrote: on client: /tmp is empty, /tmp Read-only filesystem (?) Serving /pxelinux.0 to 192.168.1.3:2070 May 14 00:35:34 fx4100 atftpd[25360]: Serving /pxelinux.0 to 192.168.1.3:2071 May 14 00:35:34 fx4100 atftpd[25360]: ... Serving

[Ltsp-discuss] documentation about init-ltsp.d

2012-12-03 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 07:52:02PM -0500, John Hupp wrote: But I find no documentation regarding scripts in /usr/share/ltsp/init-ltsp.d. Is this an LTSP-PNP innovation? The general ltsp documentation probably needs a bit of updating. The init-ltsp.d hooks are executed from /sbin/init-ltsp,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as an android app

2012-12-03 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 02:36:51PM -0500, Robert Lefebvre wrote: I've purchased three android devices - two micro PCs (MK802 and Raspberry PI) and have an Android tablet. Since none of the devices have PXE to boot to the LTSP network I need another method. I was wondering if it were possible

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Recipe: Forwarding (remote logging) syslog messages with rsyslogd

2012-12-03 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 05:54:45PM -0500, John Hupp wrote: was having trouble finding documentation of how to do that with rsyslog (only syslog-ng). I imagine that various people here could whip up this configuration in about a minute (I see now that I failed to ask here), but I had to dig

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] volume too low

2012-11-22 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:29:55AM -0700, David Burgess wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:06 AM, David Burgess apt@gmail.com wrote: Ubuntu 12.04.1 amd64 (chroot i386) I have a couple of very different models of thin client, and both have the same problem. When the client is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Grant write privileges to PHP to the etc/passwd

2012-11-09 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 10:11:56AM -0500, Robert Lefebvre wrote: I want to be able to give write to the etc/passwd file privileges to the teachers so that they can suspend and restore their student's user privileges. Of course, using some sort of frontend *might* be a good idea... Instead of

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Notifications to all users in X sessions?

2012-11-01 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 03:28:04PM -0400, John Hupp wrote: For a Lubuntu LTSP network powered by a UPS, during a power outage I want to notify all users in all X sessions with a popup message saying that the system is running on battery and about to be shut down. ... I imagine that there is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Question about accessing local media

2012-10-23 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 09:22:39PM +0200, Daniel Brockmann wrote: I set up a LTSP server for the first time and it works so far: I can log on, I can change lts.conf settings and see the change after rebooting. What distro? What version of LTSP? On recent versions, ltsp-info should be able to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] A script for shutting down an LTSP client from the host?

2012-10-18 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 09:44:50AM -0600, David Burgess wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Rüdiger Kupper k...@kg-fds.de wrote: # Suppress meaningless host key messages in ssh client # Note that this does not reduce security when connecting to thin clients, but could compromise #

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP, LDM and Password Expiration

2012-09-25 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 02:39:29PM -0400, Jay Goldberg wrote: From what I understand, LDM is not a real DM, as it doesn't use XDMCP, but a nice mix of SSH and audio/storage forwarding. XDMCP is a remote login protocol. Not all Display Managers support it.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP, LDM and Password Expiration

2012-09-21 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 07:52:40PM -0400, Stile wrote: I'm in the process of trying to set up a LTSP server on Ubuntu 12.04. I've run into a bit of a problem. Ldm does not work for password expiration. An expired password cannot be updated with ldm. It simply restarts. This is a long-standing

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Test of mailing list performance

2012-09-20 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 02:05:44PM -0400, James McQuillan wrote: We're evaluating alternatives for the mailing list server. Two things I've noticed on this general topic: * Mailman doesn't have a meaningful approach to user or administrator management by default. * Various google mailing

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client time

2012-09-11 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 11:12:55AM -0700, Richard Doyle wrote: In April 2011 a thread on this list indicated that the client time setting function is located in /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/ltsp/ltsp-init-common. However, that file no longer contains time setting functions in my new Edubuntu 12.04

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] thin vs fat for RDP clients

2012-09-04 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:58:44AM -0600, David Burgess wrote: Please correct me if I'm wrong: both thin and fat clients load a basic Linux OS from the tftp server. From there, thin clients normally connect to a remote desktop, while fat clients continue to load the whole OS, desktop and all,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP on Edubuntu, Client Issues

2012-08-09 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 08:21:28AM -0700, David Amormino wrote: I have only been able to get 12.04 thin clients to log in when I set the Session to Ubuntu 2D. I force this by creating the file /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf with the contents: [default]

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Latest Alt Linux desktop distro with LTSP5 / ALTSP5?

2012-08-02 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 07:09:53PM -0400, John Hupp wrote: Does anyone know which Alt Linux distro is the most recent that has LTSP5 / ALTSP5 integrated? Considering we haven't seen any ALT Linux related commits in upstream LTSP since 2008-04-11... I can't imagine such a thing even exists, at

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LOCAL_APPS_MENU_ITEMS doesnt work KDE4

2012-07-28 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:18:44PM +0200, Marco Müller wrote: my system Kubuntu 12.04 desktop KDE4 installed chromium-browser and xbmc as local apps on the terminal in console I can start ltsp-localapps chromium-browser when I click chromium in the K-menu nothing happens my lts.conf: Does

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] missing /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/nfs-bottom in wheezy

2012-06-25 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:33:42PM +0200, Markus Homburg wrote: In a squeeze installation you can find the script /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/nfs-bottom but in wheezy you cannot find this script. Is there a special reason for that? The corresponding functionality has been moved to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5, debian 6, NBD and lts.conf

2012-05-24 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 06:58:26PM -0300, Luis Roberto Romano wrote: I installed LTSP5 on Debian 6. As you know, ltsp ond Debian works on NFS. This makes boot time quite slow in some cases. So, I switched to NBD. Because of this, I got a better boot time, but the clients are not capable to take

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Install squeeze distro for client and ubuntu 11.10 ubuntu

2012-05-18 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
). live well, vagrant Thanks Rohit On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Vagrant Cascadian vagr...@freegeek.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 04:50:28PM -0400, Rohit Jain wrote: root@rohitj-tablet:~# ~/my-ltsp-build-client --arch i386 --dist squeeze --mirror http://ftp.us.debian.org

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Install squeeze distro for client and ubuntu 11.10 ubuntu

2012-05-18 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:51:45PM -0400, Rohit Jain wrote: Thank you very much for your reply. Exporting DEBOOTSTRAP_KEYRING helped. However, I get another error now. Unpacking ltsp-client (from .../ltsp-client_5.2.4-2_i386.deb) ... Errors were encountered while processing:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Install squeeze distro for client and ubuntu 11.10 ubuntu

2012-05-01 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 04:50:28PM -0400, Rohit Jain wrote: root@rohitj-tablet:~# ~/my-ltsp-build-client --arch i386 --dist squeeze --mirror http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ NOTE: adding default dist and components to security mirror: http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main I:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Install squeeze distro for client and ubuntu 11.10 ubuntu

2012-04-27 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:56:48AM -0400, Rohit Jain wrote: I have a server with ltsp and ubuntu 11.10. I recently acquired few thin clients that do not sure cmov, hence ubuntu 11.10 can not work on them. So, I decided to use Debian squeeze for the client distro. However, when I build the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X_COLOR_DEPTH=16 by default for thin clients

2012-03-26 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 03:14:02PM +0300, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: Στις 26/03/2012 02:07 μμ, ο/η Ben Green έγραψε: The situations where having =auto as the default would cause problems are: 1. Where clients don't support 16-bit colour and are not using local apps. Have you ever actually

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auth and home-mount with FATCLIENT

2012-03-20 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 05:25:11PM -0700, Benjamin E. Nichols wrote: I use GDM with fat client, seems to be working fine. did you set up manual authentication? set up users in the chroot? mount home dirs? i can't see how it would work without configuration these and possibly other services...

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Auth and home-mount with FATCLIENT

2012-03-18 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 06:45:30PM +0100, Herman Fries wrote: I have set up a LTSP Server on Debian Squeeze. Thin Client configuration is workin fine. The users who can login on the server can login on LDM and their home directory is mounted. Booting with LTSP_FATCLIENT=True works also fine

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Debian and nVidia Vanta

2012-01-31 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:52:28AM +0200, Asmo Koskinen wrote: I do have problems with old IBM/nVidia Vanta. I use Debian 6.0.3 i386 as a ltsp server. lspci - VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT] (rev 15) perhaps you've run into this bug:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sound being output to another client

2012-01-02 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 01:44:24PM +, Mark Andrews wrote: yes, I am logged in as the same user on multiple clients. Is this problem a general ltsp thing, or just ubuntu ltsp? unfortunately, it's a problem with many applications you're likely to be running; they assume that a user will only

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What are legal values for ltsp-build-client --dist option?

2011-12-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 09:50:23AM -0500, Todd O'Bryan wrote: Sorry if these are listed somewhere in the documentation, but I wasn't able to find them. What are legal values for the --dist option when you run ltsp-build-client? a valid release codename for your distro: i.e. on Debian: lenny,

[Ltsp-discuss] local apps documentation

2011-12-09 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:36:19PM -0500, Lachele Foley (Lists) wrote: I am a little confused here. You set LOCAL_APPS=true in lts.conf? Whoch programs does that force to be run on the client instead of the host? I was under the impression that I needed to install the program locally

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDM_SESSION in Onieric

2011-10-17 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:40:41PM +0200, Dr. Ruediger Kupper wrote: On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 16:13 -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote: I'm not saying we don't have another bug with dmrc handling, but telling people to change LDM_XSESSION on a system that's running an up to date ldm is just plain

[Ltsp-discuss] Debian LTSP on HP t5325

2011-10-07 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
Thanks to disklessworkstaions for hooking me up with the hardware, I managed to write up a brief howto about using the arm-based HP t5325 as a Debian LTSP thin client: http://people.debian.org/~vagrant/hpt5325/HP_t5325_Debian_Ltsp_Howto I guess HP is discontinuing the model, but for anyone who

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Default ldm session

2011-09-15 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 04:56:13PM +0200, kup wrote: Using the natty version, there are two workarounds: 1. Putting LDM_XSESSION=gnome-session --session=classic-gnome in lts.conf will unconditionally start a classic gnome session. just to be clear, this will break any startup

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to set default session for ldm?

2011-09-09 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 10:09:43AM +0200, Xavier Brochard wrote: Le vendredi 9 septembre 2011 01:12:30 Dr. Ruediger Kupper, vous avez écrit : I tried the second option (LDM_XSESSION): Putting LDM_XSESSION=gnome-session --session=classic-gnome in lts.conf will unconditionally start a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to set default session for ldm?

2011-09-09 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 09:40:38PM +0200, Dr. Rüdiger Kupper (Kepler-Gymnasium Freudenstadt) wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Vagrant Cascadian vagr...@freegeek.org wrote: alternately, i don't know if ubuntu has separate session types for unity vs. classic gnome with update

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Why LDM?

2011-09-06 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 10:45:40AM +0200, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: If I understand you right, LDM is a means of login for ssh sessions. So if I don't use ssh sessions, I can live well with KDM? you won't have localapps, remote sound, local devices, and possibly other features that requier

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Why PA system mode?

2011-08-18 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 05:53:11PM -0400, Jeff Siddall wrote: Anyone know why the clients run pulseaudio in system mode? Here's an excerpt from the client system log: Aug 9 09:12:06 client-192 pulseaudio[1740]: main.c: OK, so you are running PA in system mode. Please note that you most

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] fatclient on squeeze

2011-07-15 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:35:25AM +0200, Joakim Seeberg wrote: Den 13-07-2011 23:20, Vagrant Cascadian skrev: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:01:42AM +0200, Joakim Seeberg wrote: Local devices does not work with ldm so kdm is my choise at the moment. I'm not able to safely remove the local

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] fatclient on squeeze

2011-07-13 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:01:42AM +0200, Joakim Seeberg wrote: Hi Jason, fat clients works on Debian as well. The difference from ubuntu is that there are a few steps you have to do manually that ubuntu does fore you. Start by building the chroot with ltsp-build-client. Then you have to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltspfs questions for EL6

2011-06-10 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 02:01:38AM -1000, Warren Togami Jr. wrote: I am attempting to fix ltspfs on EL6.  I am comparing the contents of my ltspfs and ltspfsd packages to the Debian packages and I am confused by things I see in the filelists below.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slowly Moving Away from LTSP

2011-06-03 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 05:51:45PM -0700, Yudhvir Singh Sidhu wrote: So, while I stew over this apparent failure - Allz I can see upon boot is an xterm logged into my server, a splash screen background and a spinning cursor - it sounds like you don't have a desktop installed. on the server:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] root xterm and spinning wheel prompt upon login from terminal

2011-05-31 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:32:58AM -0700, Yudhvir Singh Sidhu wrote: I get an xterm and a spinning wheel prompt... And it sits there. But wait! it does give me an xterm. It is logged on the server in the xterm. I'm missing something obvious. And it seems to be hidden. i'm guessing you need

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Like Sun Ray?

2011-05-22 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 11:16:33AM -0700, Yudhvir Singh Sidhu wrote: Totally new to thin clients. Question - How is a LTSP client connected from outside the network? you don't really. LTSP is about booting over the network. you could connect to the same server that LTSP is using with VNC, NX,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp@debian: Upgrade of chroot to squeeze gives nfsmount: need a path error

2011-04-15 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 09:08:12AM +0100, Rainer Stumbaum wrote: Yes, that is how we do it here... we basically use LTSP as the base of our computing cluster (by uninstalling ltsp-client and installing ltsp-client-core) oh, interesting. i love to hear about LTSP being used in clever ways. :)

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp@debian: Upgrade of chroot to squeeze gives nfsmount: need a path error

2011-04-14 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 08:32:37AM +0100, Rainer Stumbaum wrote: I just did a fresh ltsp-build-client --dist squeeze --mirror http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ and strangely enough now this setup tries to boot from the last device it finds (eth2) which is not the one it should use (eth0).

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp@debian: Upgrade of chroot to squeeze gives nfsmount: need a path error

2011-04-07 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 09:39:44AM +0100, Rainer Stumbaum wrote: I found the regression: udhcpc is called in init-premount to get the DHCP configuration. The udhcpd used in the busybox does not ask the DHCP server for the rootpath option. Adjusting the udhcpc call in

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] tftp server via inetd? debian squeeze

2011-04-02 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 05:42:32PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: Is it still recommended to run tftpd via inetd, or to run it standalone? I ask because my upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze changed my settings and tftpd is running standalone now. the tftpd-hpa maintainer changed it explicitly in

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Can't choose language in LDM

2011-02-10 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 01:09:35PM +0100, Davy HUBERT wrote: Here is the output of /usr/sbin/ldminfod : root@ltsp-server:~# ldminfod language:fr_FR.UTF-8 language:aa_DJ.UTF-8 language:ar_AE.UTF-8 that looks good. But on the loggin screen the only language choice is default hmmm. do you

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Can't choose language in LDM

2011-02-09 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 03:39:34PM +0100, Davy HUBERT wrote: i'm using ltsp on an ubuntu-server 10.04 box and i try to figure out how to provide many languages to the users. When the user arrive on the ldm screen, if we want to choose the language the only choice is default. I tried to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] is LDM_LIMIT_ONE_SESSION still supported under ubuntu lucid?

2011-02-09 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:03:04PM -0800, john wrote: I read that the proper way to kill stale user sessions is no longer gnome-watchdog but an lts.conf switch called LDM_LIMIT_ONE_SESSION However, it doesn't appear in the lts.conf man page for Ubuntu Lucid. Is it currently supported or is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] errors while updating chroot

2011-02-04 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 02:16:11PM -0700, David Burgess wrote: Using Ubuntu 10.04 and following the guide here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/UpdatingChroot i'd also recommend using the ltsp-chroot utility rather than chroot /opt/ltsp/i386. it handles setting

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Reading UDF cdroms on clients

2011-02-04 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:07:11AM +1100, Michael Pope wrote: We keep getting UDF formatted cdroms at work and people cannot read them on their LTSP clients. I can read them on the server though. I've read somewhere that you just have to change the fstab to auto or add UDF to it, but when

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Sound setup in LTSP5.2

2011-01-29 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 01:38:24PM -0500, Mark wrote: I just installed LTSP in a multi-use server to provide services to about 4-5 clients. It's a box stock install on a debian squeeze distro. I'm using NFS and LDM managers. I can boot and login just fine with all my users, but no sound

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP fat clients vs. Debian Live netboot

2010-12-23 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 09:06:22PM -0500, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: On 21/12/10 08:20 PM, Rob Owens wrote: I had some success today. I got a fat client working after addressing two issues: 1) Booting would hang on network-manager and/or network-manager-dispatcher. I

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