[Ltsp-discuss] Using ldm standalone ?
I have an existing LTSP setup on Debian/Lenny serving a diskless netbooting thin-client over wired ethernet and working well for several years now. I'd like to also use an old IBM T22 laptop as a wireless LTSP client (PCMCIA card 802.11g). It has a Lenny install; using XDCMP from gdm's chooser to connect to my server works well enough (wlan connection under the control of wpasupplicant) but I'd like to get the laptop to display an ldm login instead of gdm to get the benefit of ssh and compression and so that the laptop presents the same dedicated-to-the-server login screen as the wired thin client. (I'm assuming netbooting the laptop via a PCMCIA card which won't connect until its got its firmware from the OS is completely out of the question!) I see there's an ldm package in Lenny, completely separate from the ltsp-client packages. If I install it on my client machine, can someone give me some hints how I would go about replacing gdm with it and configuring it to point to my LTSP server ? (Is it selectable via Debian's alternatives system as I believe xdm is ?) Thanks for any tips Tim -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _ Ltsp-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.freenode.net
Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Using ldm standalone ?
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 07:32:38PM +, Tim Day wrote: I see there's an ldm package in Lenny, completely separate from the ltsp-client packages. If I install it on my client machine, can someone give me some hints how I would go about replacing gdm with it and configuring it to point to my LTSP server ? (Is it selectable via Debian's alternatives system as I believe xdm is ?) ldm doesn't by default have an init script like gdm/kdm/xdm/wdm, since it was intended to be started from ltsp's init scripts. so you'll need an init script, or to start it directly from /etc/inittab. there's an example init script in /usr/share/doc/ldm/ that i did years ago as a proof of concept, though i suspect the syntax for ldm has changed somewhat. the init script will need to export a handful of variables that you'd typically get from lts.conf. take a look at /usr/share/ltsp/screen.d/ldm to get an idea for some of those variables. maybe even writing a wrapper script around the screen script would be the way to go. good luck, it's an adventure! live well, vagrant -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _ Ltsp-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.freenode.net
