Simone, you are completly right. the remote machine can not be totally dumb - you need an operating system, so that you can process keyboard and mouse input and display graphics on the monitor. you are at the right place. julius
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody, first I want to tell you all I'm sorry if I will tell a lot > of wrong things in this mail but I'm really new to Linux and I don?t know > anyone who knows it and also my English is not so good. > Looking to my company structure I started thinking a diskless solution could > be something companies should give more consideration to. > So I decided I want learn who to develop a diskless network and I decided > it have to be completely based on freeware software? so Linux is the chosen > one ! > > Now I?ll tell you what?s in my mind so you can tell me if I?m wrong or not: > > I want it to be a server based structure, the diskless workstations has > to be stupid machines, the only thing I want them to do is to boot to LAN, > look to the server and after that I want server take control, ask the user > login and password and after the authentication loads inside itself the > user?s profile (like it do using Alt+F1, Alt+F2, ecc?). The only difference > I want is that the output (monitor) is not local but the one of the remote > computer and the input (mouse and keyboard) is not local but the one of > the remote computer. > > After I read a few of this project?s documentation what I understand is > that you do not consider the diskless as a complete idiot machine but you > load in its memory the OS and in the server?s PC you create references for > all remote machines. > > Am I completely wrong ? Am I looking for something different from LTSP ? > > Thank you, > Simone Tommasi > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Abbonati a Tiscali! > Con Tiscali By Phone puoi anche ascoltare ed inviare email al telefono. > Chiama Tiscali By Phone all' 892 800 http://byphone.tiscali.it > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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.openprojects.net > _____________________________________________________________________ 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.openprojects.net