Thanks Greg. I hadn't heard of ThinStation. Based on what you say it certainly seems worth looking into.
In the meanwhile we used vmware to install FC6 on top of Win2k3 to solve our problem. With a bridged network for the FC6 it serves as our LTSP server and consumes about 10% of the CPU as we don't need an X window in the lab. With a 3GHz P4 with HT, and 2 GB RAM, the speed is reasonable for our 20 seat PC lab. I sure am glad we didn't have to use cygwin for the job, as the incompatibility between Linux file permissions and NTFS ACLs probably would have made life miserable. Incidentally, the win2k3 rdesktop session licensing cost is $18/seat so it's still better to use this setup over purchasing brand new workstations as JAM had suggested. Thanks to all who responded Sami gnyce wrote: > Instead of using LTSP, have you considered ThinStation > (thinstation.sourceforge.net)? I use LTSP at home, but here at work, > I've done more with ThinStation. It's still a thin client, and you > can boot with local media (CF, HD) or CD-ROM, or PXE (as I do). > Booting from PXE, the thin-client loads a complete albeit > small/stripped-down Linux OS, complete with Fluxbox or IceWM desktop > if you wish. You can also have it boot directly into an rdesktop > session with Windows 2003 TS (as we have done). > > You can do local builds, or you can use what they call a TS-O-Matic, > which means you can specify the different hardware you need to support > on your thin clients, whatever they are, and a custom config and > initrd/pxe boot image, etc. are created for you. Worth a look, based > on your descriptions below... you can still use 1 server (as long as > you get the Win2k3 server to provide TFTP and DHCP with the proper > configuration - or just use a small Linux PC), but you dont' have to > mess with Cygwin or VMWare or even NFS. > > If you have questions, you can ask me, or try the thinstation mailing > list, which is usually quite friendly. > > Good luck, > Greg > ____________________ > > Message: 10 > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:51:55 +0300 > From: "H. Sami Sozuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] weird question: ltsp on cygwin? > To: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-9" > > Hi Joe, > > Thanks for the tip. Ideally vmware should do the trick. Linux on top of > a Win2003 server > should be OK but vmware can slow things down a good deal, so I thought a > cygwin > environment with the dhcpd, tftpd and nfsd services running should do > the job at a much > lower CPU penalty. Maybe win2003 server can be made to run all these > services > without the need to install cygwin -- I just don't know. > > The reason for me wanting to use the win2003 server only, is that users > want to use > primarily windows on the thin clients, and it would be nice to have to > worry about a single > server instead of two. This is intended as a 20-seat system in a primary > school, > so the less hardware the better. > > I'll look into vmware and how it performs on our WTS server and report > here if I find > anything worth noting. > > Chhers > Sami > > > > Joe Auerbach wrote: >> I doubt it. Cygwin isn't really a linux OS at all, so I doubt it has >> the correct libraries to run ltsp. >> >> Now I could see it working with emulation (ie Vmware). In fact, i'm >> sure at leasty one person here runs linux on vmware as a server, though >> how well it works is debateable. >> >> What is the reason you have to use hte windows server? dhcp >> restrictions, maybe? Something else? >> >> H. Sami Sozuer wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I realize this is a strange question, but is it possible >>> to install ltsp on a windows2003+cygwin system and >>> have the terminals boot properly? >>> >>> I need the clients to be running linux locally, but they'll >>> be connecting to a win2003 terminal server. >>> >>> Sami Sozuer >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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