On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 12:06 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 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.
> > It would be really great if you could elucidate a bit. > Denis every word makes sense, just when you put them all together, me being a bear of little brain (Winnie ther Pooh - AA Milne) gets confused. Please ... Jamrs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
