On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:23:07AM -0500, Donny Brooks wrote: > The test will consist of only a handful of PC's. Eventually I would like > to, pending successful testing, roll this out to all 150+ users across > the state. Here is a breakdown of what we have if it helps also: > > Main campus (all 1GB fiber between buildings and 100MB ports per pc): 60
this part should be easy with an LTSP server... > Satellite campus (connected to main campus via 802.11G wireless bridge) 8 > Remote location 1 (1.5M x 256k aDSL): 6 > Remote location 2 (T1): 6 > Remote location 3 (T1): 4 > Remote location 4 (3M x 512k cable): 7 > Remote location 5 (3M x 512k cable): 5 > Users on various other networks (home dsl, and other varying networks): 4 the rest of these won't work so great with a central LTSP server; LTSP will download the OS over the network, and the running session (i.e. every mouse movement, click, etc.) also goes over the network, so it would probably feel painfully slow, if it worked at all. you could set up an LTSP server for each location, though then you'd need to figure out how to keep the homedirs in sync across servers (if people would access via multiple locations). this wouldn't be LTSP at this point, but you could log into the LTSP server using something like NX or VNC from the remote locations. you'd still need an OS, though. all of the above could be mixed and matched a bit... good luck! :) live well, vagrant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _____________________________________________________________________ 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