On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 08:10:13PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 07:05:29PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > I haven't tried using LTSP fat client mode yet -- ltsp-server 5.2.4-2 in > > Debian backports doesn't seem to support that yet. > > it definitely has support for it, just not an explicit ltsp-build-client > commandline > option: > > ltsp-build-client --late-packages "$desktop_environment_or_window_manager > $other_apps" > > alternately, after you've already built an LTSP chroot: > > sudo ltsp-chroot apt-get install $desktop_environment_or_window_manager > $other_apps > > in either case, then set LTSP_FATCLIENT=true in lts.conf. that's pretty much > it. > Great news! Thanks, I'll test it out this week. > > > But today I tried > > using a netboot image from Debian Live, and it was pretty nice. I'm > > wondering how it compares to an LTSP fat client. > > > > The Debian Live solution works like this: > > > > Download or build your own live image (the same kind of live image that > > can be used on a USB or CD). Share the image, read-only, over NFS. Set > > up tftpboot and dhcp. Then your clients will download the live image > > over the network and use local resources to run it. > > i *think* debian-live loads the whole OS into ram, whereas LTSP's fatclient > approach only loads parts over the network it actually uses when it uses it. > both approaches have advantages and disadvantages, namely in how much server > vs. local resources it takes. > I'll do some tests on ram usage and report back.
> > > By default you are automatically logged in as the "live" user, > > this is more like an LTSP kiosk setup. > > > > but you > > can set it up to boot to a login manager. I'm going to try mounting > > /home over NFS and do user authentication via LDAP (I'll report back > > when I have something to report). > > with LTSP fat clients it essentially uses ssh to authenticate. scotty's been > working on beautiful mastermind schemes to make that elegantly. > > > there's a lot of similarity between debian-live and Debian LTSP, and hopefully > we'll use more and more common tools. > -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _____________________________________________________________________ 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
