Now this method seems to work really well. (Honestly, it still seems a
little finicky, like sometimes you have to reload Konqueror an extra
time, and I was having some trouble with deleting files from a floppy.
But this will take care of at least most of our needs!)
I consolidated your method a bit. Rather than having a separate
.desktop file and shell script, we put it all in the .desktop file.
Also, we didn't seem to have the $LTSP_CLIENT variable in our
environment, so we're extracting it from $DISPLAY instead. We also use
a common desktop, so it was a snap to drop these two files into place.
Here's our version of the Floppy.desktop file:
[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Access the Floppy Drive on your Machine
Comment[en_US]=Access the Floppy Drive on your Machine
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=exec konqueror smb://`echo $$DISPLAY | cut -f 1 -d ':'`/drives/floppy
GenericName=Floppy Drive
GenericName[en_US]=Floppy Drive
Icon=3floppy_mount
MimeType=
Name=Floppy
Name[en_US]=Floppy
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DCOP-ServiceType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
Thanks very much for your help!
Ken
Nadav Kavalerchik wrote:
Ok, i think i solved this issue :-)
1. remove /usr/local/bin/LDA-* ( you will not need them ) and their activation
lines from the kdm/gdm scripts
2. add two new file ( one for Floppy and one for CD )
cd /usr/local/bin
touch open_floppy.sh;touch open_cd.sh
edit "open_floppy.sh" so it includes...
#!/bin/bash
exec konqueror smb://$LTSP_CLIENT/drives/floppy/
and "open_cd.sh" ...
#!/bin/bash
exec konqueror smb://$LTSP_CLIENT/drives/cdrom/
set both exec permission ( "chmod +x ./open*" )
now, add two more .desktop files into the user's Desktop folder.
( i use kde's kiosk-tool , so i just put it in the main Desktop folder which
every one sees )
files: Open_Floppy.desktop and Open_CD.desktop
here what Open_Floppy.desktop includes...
[Desktop Entry]
Comment=
Comment[en_US]=
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec='/usr/local/bin/open_floppy.sh'
GenericName=open floppy drive
GenericName[en_US]=open floppy drive
Icon=3floppy_unmount
MimeType=
Name=floppy A
Name[en_US]=floppy A
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DCOP-ServiceType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
set open_cd.desktop too, so that it points to "open_cd.sh".
and you're set ! to go :-)
clicking (or double-clicking) on the icons will open up the local media
directly.
and very responsive too. removing the media and inserting it again will show
media's content immediately. no mount or remount...
i hope it helps :-)
Nadav
On Friday 20 January 2006 21:39, Gustavo Guillermo Pérez wrote:
El Viernes, 20 de Enero de 2006 11:33, Ken Tanzer escribió:
Well so two of us seem to be having this problem. I'm wondering if
there are people who _don't_ have this problem. Does anyone have local
drives working so that it continues to work, even after trying to read
an empty drive? If so, I'd like to try to zero in one the differences
in our setups, and hopefully get this fixed. If this problem is just
inherent to this method of accessing local drives, then I won't try to
fix it ( :) ), but it would probably be worth mentioning on the wiki
page.
If there's a better way to go about this, I'm all ears. Getting local
drives working is pretty important for us, as we've got a bunch of users
who can't use LTSP until we've got drives working.
Well, I was using supermount on the thin client kernels and samba to fall
back to the server, tx to supermount with kernel 2.6.15 I does not have
problems even using rdp with W2003S, and even using media with bad sectors.
WFM
Thanks in advance.
Ken
Nadav Kavalerchik wrote:
I'm experiencing the same problem :-(
i tried many things for two weeks now and i have no idea what to try
next.
BTW...
from the Konqueror location bar i use "smb://ws001/" and i get the samba
shares. clicking one of them (CD / floppy) i get nothing, except error.
but refreshing (f5) a few time shows the files eventually.
i also get allllloot of smb-time-outs on the server's log.
(the ones that were suppose to go away with ver 4.1.1 fixes)
and another BTW.
I've patched the original rc.localdev for displaying correct Hebrew
codepage/iocharset when reading win98 file names.
see changes on lines 72,97 in the attached file.
yet, another BTW...
did i mentioned how amazing the ltsp project is !!! if not ;-) ...
it's absolutely AMAZING how it all works . thank you all for this
beautiful work !!!
Nadav :-)
On 1/18/06, Ken Tanzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
After getting no repsonse to this plea for help, I've looked into this
more and have some additional information. The problems reading media
seem to happen both upon the initial mount, and also whenever a read to
an empty drive is attempted. In these cases, I have to switch to the
local machine and read the drive, and then my mount on the server is
fine.
If I switch one floppy out for another, though, the change is correctly
detected and read.
This behavior happens when I do the mount outside of the LDA-setup.sh
script, so it seems definitely to be something about the way smbmount
is behaving. Here's a "transcript" that might help illuminate this.
"desktop" is our LTSP server.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -ltr tmp/floppy/
total 982
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 501416 May 31 2001 0000001819-04ss.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 503805 May 31 2001 0000001819-04ff.exe
--------------------[[ floppy switched here
]]-------------------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -ltr tmp/floppy/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Dec 8 2001 DescParty2001
--------------------[[ floppy switched here
]]-------------------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -ltr tmp/floppy/
total 982
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 501416 May 31 2001 0000001819-04ss.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 503805 May 31 2001 0000001819-04ff.exe
--------------------[[ floppy removed here
]]------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -ltr
tmp/floppy/ total 0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -ltr tmp/floppy/
ls: tmp/floppy/: Not a directory
--------------------[[ floppy replaced here
]]-------------------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -ltr tmp/floppy/
ls: tmp/floppy/: Not a directory
Let me know if I can provide additional information--we'd really love
to get this working. Thanks!
Ken
I'm trying to get local devices (floppy & cdrom) working on our thin
clients. We're running Fedora Core 4, plus LTSP 4.1. Following the
Wiki's Local Media page (and adding the line MODULE_01 =
ide-generic) to my lts.conf, I'm able to _sort of_ get these devices
working. Specifically, the drives, drives/cdrom and drives/floppy
entries are created in my home directory. cdrom and floppy both show
as empty, however, unless I switch to my local machine (i.e., the thin
client), and do an "ls /tmp/drives/cdrom". The ls works OK, and then
my session on the server is able to see the drive contents as well.
Did I miss a step, or does anyone know what might be causing this
problem? Thanks in advance.
Ken
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