Denis Cardon wrote: > Hi Peter, > > >> some general questions about LTSP5: We have numerous thin clients and >> multiple workstations. So far we use LTSP 4.2 to boot an OS and then use >> XDMCP to get on the workstations. Users often really need CPU power, so we >> can not just set up one LTSP server on which everyone works. We wanted to >> change to LTSP 5. It is much easier to install programs there via chroot. >> We'd like to have local device support. As far as I know, that does not work >> with XDMCP because it doesn't use SSH compared to LDM. >> So the final question: Is there any way to get local device support for >> multiple workstations and LTSP? This would be great. You're logged in on a >> workstation via the thin client, plug in the usb device and you can access >> it from the workstation's OS. >> > > It is not that hard to set up direct ltspfs access in a ltsp5 > environment. The only trick is to have a coherent dhcp/dns setup in > order to have X cookies authentication working (otherwise you can just > disable it). > > You just have to set up properly a few udev rules, a few binaries > (ltspfsd, lbuscd, etc.) and startup scripts, and then you have access on > what ever ltsp tree you are using (being debian, ubuntu, opensuse, > mandriva or whatever) with ldm or not. > > Cheers, > > Denis > Hi,
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