Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Getting Started

2015-09-28 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Mark Foley wrote: > Unfortunately, Ubuntu is not an option. We have Slackware 64 > installed in the office and is the Active Directory/Domain Controller > server for the domain using Samba4. It also does the DNS/DHCP and is the Windows "terminal server-ish" > r

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Getting Started

2015-10-01 Thread Christopher Roberts
> I'm going to try downloading and tweaking the Ubuntu LTSP and see > if I can get that going per Christopher Roberts' "suggestion". Apologies if my earlier email was overly brief! I started typing up a much longer one and then thought that my first response should be

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Getting Started

2015-10-02 Thread Christopher Roberts
> Actually, my intention is to run LTSP *on* the Samba4 AD. Why not? Given that, the same host would be running DHCP -- > unless LTSP wants to take over DHCP? > Is there a problem running LTSP on the same host that currently runs DHCP? I have learnt the hard way that combining server functions is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SSH VNC Tunneling to LTSP server

2011-12-12 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Monday 12 Dec 2011, Christian Lensch wrote: > Or use the  '-via'-flag in tigervnc > e.g: > vncviewer -via : > > which includes the ssh-tunneling in one client There is an interesting debate to be had of NX vs VNC - they provide overlapping services, but NX is the better tool for working remot

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client IP Addresses

2007-10-31 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 02:21, Mel Wade wrote: > Can anybody confirm if they are Thin or Fat clients? > ie This Display has an IP of its own as opposed to having the server IP > Curious - James They are thin clients, they clearly just found a way of allocating Virtual IPs on the same network

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local device not quite there

2007-11-09 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Friday 09 November 2007 03:25, J. Paul Bissonnette wrote: > If I plug in a USB stick or insert a CD in the work station the folder > appears ; but no content is visible. That's exactly the behaviour that I experienced, and like you I went through all the troubleshooting steps successfully. I b

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Documentation for Sound

2007-11-14 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 15:38, Christopher Roberts wrote: > The "OSS transparent redirection to EsounD" worked for us, well at least on > the terminals for which I can get the sound cards working! Apologies, should have said we are on Debian - the above instructions are n

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Documentation for Sound

2007-11-14 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 15:28, sean wrote: > Is anyone able to point me at some good documentation to get sound working? > I am running on Gentoo using LTSP 4.2-r1. Presumably you've read the gospel... http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Sound The "OSS transparent redirection to Esoun

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Building LTSP-4.2: fetching sh-utils-2.0.tar.gz

2007-11-16 Thread Christopher Roberts
On 2007-10-29 13:01:54 Scott Balneaves wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:04:28AM +0100, Klaus-Peter Niedermann wrote: > > I want to build LTSP-4.2 using the LBE (see > > http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Build-LTSP-42). > > > > But I have the Problem to fetch the sh-utils-2.0.tar.gz (see b

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local device not quite there

2007-11-24 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Sunday 11 November 2007 11:10, J. Paul Bissonnette wrote: > could you elaborate on that? All I did was to replace the .ltsp on every line of /etc/hosts with our actual domain name. Unfortunately I have just just reversed that change, to try and prove that that was the problem, but it still

[Ltsp-discuss] Display number - does it have to be a guessing game?

2007-12-10 Thread Christopher Roberts
We are using LTSP4.2 with KDE/KDM. To shadow users screens I am planning to use krfb/krdc. This seems to work out-of-the-box, but I don't know the users display numbers. If I try echo $DISPLAY, it always gives me the client hostname followed by ":0", but this always fails (presumably because kr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Building LTSP-4.2: fetching sh-utils-2.0.tar.gz

2007-12-17 Thread Christopher Roberts
I got passed the sh-utils fetch error with: $ sudo su $ cd /usr/local/lbe/tarballs $ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ltsp/sh-utils-2.0.tar.gz $ ./build_all --fetch $ ./build_all Unfortunately it failed on building util-linux. *** Unable to build util-linux! You might find more information

[Ltsp-discuss] Windows applications on LTSP desktop

2007-12-27 Thread Christopher Roberts
Having been working for the past few months on introducing LTSP 4.2 into our business (currently rolling out to all users), I was wondering which methods people have adopted for providing access to required Windows apps? We are in the unfortunate position of having a number of industry-specific

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Windows applications on LTSP desktop

2007-12-27 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Thursday 27 December 2007 15:38, Frank Lienhard wrote: > Qemu: to slow QEMU was too slow for us until I switched on KVM and the virtual threading CPU switch in the BIOS. * http://www.virtualbox.org/ Not certain about all your requirements, but for home use I would use VirtualBox, as this

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Windows applications on LTSP desktop

2007-12-28 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Thursday 27 December 2007 17:18, Frank Lienhard wrote: > Just to get ist right: > -which windows version did you use > -did you start the virtualbox on the client or did you install a windows > server inside virtualbox and the used rdp on the client? On LTSP 4.2 I experimented only with W2K3 vi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Windows applications on LTSP desktop

2007-12-29 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Friday 28 December 2007 17:09, Frank Lienhard wrote: > > If you need multiple clients running > > simultaneously then RDP is probably the most efficient way. > > But this will only be supported by server versions of windows, right? XP would only allow a single RDP connection, there is an old Mi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Windows applications on LTSP desktop (Christopher Roberts)

2008-01-02 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Thursday 27 December 2007 23:48, jam wrote: > for my info: this setup seemed to work perfectly bar the directx video > stuff ie games? video and photography stuff I can imagine, fortunately that's a complication we haven't need to worry about here. > For me an Xp machine, but a TS server, and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] a query

2008-01-04 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Friday 04 January 2008 17:48, Subhodip Biswas wrote: > i was just wandering , it has been mentioned lts.conf file is needed > by default , so if i need it where should i be placing it ? You don't mention which version of LTSP nor which distribution, but our LTSP4.2 Debian system has lts.conf i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Windows applications on LTSP desktop

2008-01-05 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Sunday 30 December 2007 14:46, Frank Lienhard wrote: > >    * 2x - free for 5 users, not officially supported for XP, but works > >    * SeamlessRDP > > > > See my original posting for issues with these solutions and links. > > But no drive mapping means, you can't use the local CD-drive, which

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Long Range Ethernet

2008-01-08 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Monday 07 January 2008 20:46, Michael Blinn wrote: > Hello LTSPers - Interesting conundrum. I have two buildings that I'd > like to run off a single LTSP server. The two buildings are currently > bridged (same subnet) via a dry pair and have ethernet-extenders on each > side of the pair. Curre

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] debian 3 ltsp

2008-01-08 Thread Christopher Roberts
matter last 1 week, i don't understand > pdfs, Have you followed instructions: > (i need proper way either debian 3 or debian 4) > > i hope that your kind help -- Christopher Roberts - Finance Director Trident Garages Ltd, Guildford Road, Ottershaw, Surrey KT16 0NZ Switchboard 01

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] debian 3 ltsp

2008-01-08 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Tuesday 08 January 2008 06:21, Pasupathy Murugan wrote: > i installed debian 3 , > i did  step by step install of ltsp > 1, dhcpd3 > 2. file server (nfs,samba) > 3. tftp > 4.xdmcp >   > but that is not working , What is not working? xdmcp? > i fought  that matter last 1 week, i don't understan

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Windows applications on LTSP desktop

2008-01-12 Thread Christopher Roberts
A few corrections and updates from my earlier posts... On Thursday 27 December 2007 11:55, Christopher Roberts wrote: > ---++ 2x Application Server client > >    * http://www.2x.com/applicationserver/ > > Having installed the 2x ApplicationServer on the W2K3 server (an absolute

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-14 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Monday 14 January 2008 12:53, Chris Fanning wrote: > We thought the might be two possibilites. > 1) boot the clients over the network (WAN) ? I'll leave others to answer this one - but I doubt it's practical - unless you have huge bandwidth. > 2) install just enough on the thinclients to get

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-14 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Monday 14 January 2008 14:23, Christopher Roberts wrote: > Knoppix live CD to act as an LTSP server I decided to do a bit of digging... Apparently it's not LTSP, but it does provide a "terminal server" with DHCP, TFTP and NFS: * http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/KNOPPIX_Te

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-14 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Monday 14 January 2008 16:40, Chris Fanning wrote: > But I can't get fullscreen going with their window manager JWM. > Some time ago (thanks to help on this list), I did get NX fullsceen > using the ion2 window manager. > Damn Small Linux also has ion2 prepared and I have got it going. Oddly en