On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:57:03PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:10:55PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > 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. > > > > > This is not working for me. I keep getting logged in as a thin client > > -- I can run software that is installed on the server but not in the > > chroot. > > just tested and it works for me with a lenny chroot with backports (on a > squeeze server, as well as squeeze for both chroot and server). i also have a > few in production that are lenny+backports servers with lenny+backports > chroots, and those work fine also. > > > Is there maybe another step to make this work? > > more likely your LTSP chroot doesn't have the backported versions of > ltsp-client*, ldm, and ltspfsd*: > > ltsp-info > > if the versions of ltsp-client*/ltspfsd*/ldm don't include ~bpo50, you > probably > didn't specify to use the backports when creating the ltsp chroot. somewhat > more detailed instructions here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/LTSP/Howto/Lenny-With-Backports > Thanks, that was it. Now I'm booting as a fat client, but I get logged in as root at a terminal. Probably because I'm updating an existing chroot and I haven't installed everythign I need. Anyway, this will get me going.
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