Doable indeed. I would say NFS for home and shared directories and the rest via "cloned" LTSP servers at each location.
Your biggest problem is bandwidth, so the feasibility depends on document/file size versus available bandwidth. Alberto On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 19:25 +0000, Ian Pascoe wrote: > Hi > > Has anyone here managed to get an LTSP installation to work over > geographically seperated sites so that a user who is registered can log on > at any of the remote sites and still get access to their documents and have > the graphical interface launch with their own preferences? My knee jerk > reaction is to have an application server at each site, and have the user > documents and log in credentials stored off site at a central server with > the remote sites connected through the Internet by means of some sort of > secure tunnelling. > > At the moment, I'm only really interested in whether it can be done, and > what pit falls or limitations there are. > > I have read up on using multiple servers on an LTSP installation, but can > find very little about setting up an installation over a geographically > seperated sites. > > Thoughts and guidance is much appreciated. > > Thanks > > Ian > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
