Hi all, I am from Cuba. My country is recently deploying thousands of thin clients in institutions and government. A great idea but poorly executed. The clients have a Celeron processor, 256Mb RAM and 15" flat displays. The servers come pre-installed with Windows Server 2000 and some network booted Windows XP software, all this in a small 1Gb RAM for a proportion of 10 to 1 (10 clients per server).
I am an Ubuntu user since Hoary, so, I managed to install Ubuntu Server 8.04 and LTSP 5 on the servers. My setup is simple, I use fat clients, first with NFS, which gave me some problems eventually losing performance. So I switch to NBD. NBD has better performance, plus I can now start services like samba with shared printer (for printing in a Terminal Server using a legacy app to the user's printer connected to his/her client). I also use NBD swap (which is a must in this setup) I still need some extras, like audio support, I have to download the latest ALSA packages and compiled in the client, to do this, I will need Read-Write access on the NBD image. I had tried to change the config on /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/fati386/pxelinux.cfg/<mac address> with rw instead of ro. Also, changed the /usr/sbin/nbdrootd script removing the -r option to allow read-write. Anyway, I don't know what else to do. Could someone please help me. My final goal is to write a admin interface to allow some things like, setting individual NBD images to different users or setting up the lts.conf file via web. Greetings Ernesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
