Yes indeed, you could use rsh or ssh, and you could even throw in a little NIS to make authentication/managing user accounts a bit easier for a large number of users.
However, these things are sort of out of the scope of technical issues with ltsp I think. The ltsp documentation does describe how to use rsh to run local applications; you can use that as a guide to running applications on other servers. It's essentially the same thing. The only thing I have been confused about, not being greatly versed in X authentication, is how to allow hosts other then the machine you connected via XDM to talk to your X server. I'm sure if I read up on X authentication a bit more it would be a no brainer. You can of course use DISABLE_ACCESS_CONTROL = Y option in lts.conf to allow any machines to talk to your X servers on the workstations. This of course wouldn't be exactly recommended; you don't want BillyBob Troublemaker to send nasty things to peoples' screens. -Joe -----Original Message----- From: rob apodaca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 1:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 2 or more LTSP servers? ... > >Absolutely possible. There are probably a dozen ways to accomplish this. > >What I do is have all the clients boot and log into one server. From the > main server, all of the small apps are ran. The second server acts merely as > an application server for the big apps (namely open office). It also is a > backup dhcp, tftp, ltsp server in case the Primary server crashes. > >This approach requires setting up NIS and NFS as well as running some sync > scripts (for conf files and such). > I'>ve tried a few other approaches. So far, this approach has worked best > for me - mileage may vary. It allows me to scale if necessary. > > > >Cheers, > >-rob > > > How exactly do you do this? How can you run OpenOffice from another server > than the one your're logged in at? ... I use SSHD running on server #2 and ssh client running on server #1. By issuing: $ ssh server1 ooffice from the workstation - which is really the same thing as being at server #1 - the application from server #2 is fowarded to the workstation's display on server #1. By creating a simple shell script and putting it in the user's menu, the user merely 'clicks' the menu option and the application starts...from the other server and it is transparent to the user. I believe that rsh can be used this way as well. -rob ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ 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
