Sorry for the length of this post as i converted it from my notes while playing with openthinclient. Rest assured, i would be happy to compile them under How To or such for the Wiki pages.
Following are the list of questions. Thank you in advance for your attention. -- How to centrally set (as Skeleton/Default) gnome-default-applications -> Mail Reader COMMAND field to a shell script path like /bin/webMail_compose.sh so that we can launch the webmail for all mailto: links? What is the best way to inject this shell script, say webMail_compose.sh to the Core so it will be accessible in all and future thinclients. How to centrally (as Skeleton/Default) register MIME types with Firefox for all thinclients. Is there a location on the openthinclient server that we can drop the defaults so that it will be copied to every new thinclient user created? How to facilitate Single Sign On with Web Applications? I understand environment variables USER and TCOS_TOKEN keeps the uname:pwd upon thinclient login. Can we pass the USER TCOS_TOKEN environment variables to the Firefox App as URL, say create new firefox application and set launch URL to http://intranet/login.aspx?user=$USER&pwd=&TCOS_TOKEN ? Assuming we passed that to the webserver login page, how to decode the TCOS_TOKEN? is it encrypted with publicly available algorithm or custom? How to enable Show Memory graph in taskbar, next to cpu and network? Is there a security or other concerns that GNOME-MONITOR is disabled/removed? As more applications (multiple firefox windows, VLC windows) will be running locally, do you think giving end-user to see and kill his (user) processes via GNOME-MONITOR is advisable? How to enable/show GNOME-VOLUME CONTROL? It complains the file is missing when you dbl-click it. Is there a reason for disabling this, like the GNOME-MONITOR? How to set (as Skeleton, default) GNOME desktop defaulting to "low-resources" that disables animation and show-contents-on-drag for all current and future thinclient users? How to Add new printer drivers? Say the driver is not listed in default printers dropdown and we located the driver from vendor's page -> CANON IRc 5xxx linux .deb files on canon site. What is the best way to include this printer to the base and show under the dropdown selection of OpenThinClient Manager? Being a complete newbie to Linux and CUPS, do we need add special parameters (schema field) when adding new CUPS printer? Can you give a generic simplistic schema/parameters that one would use to add the CUPS printer under Manager. How to create default folders (as Skeleton, defaults) on each thinclient user's desktop? for ex: a Download folder on each user's desktop so that documents downloaded from net will be saved to this folder - as part of company policy etc. reasons. Is there a way or place to create this folder(s) when a new user created? How to set (as skeleton, defaults) the settings of FireFox browser for all current and future thinclient users? I noticed if i root in the thinclient via xterm, i can locate /etc/skel/ folder which seems to hold the defaults for firefox but i cant trace that folder on the openthinclient server. is this created on the fly? where can we store the defaults for firefox and/or OpenOffice to be inherited? The same goes for OpenOffice, is there a /etc/skel/ folder for openOffice settings as well that will be inherited for all users? As i had a number of issues with Evince PDF viewer opening big files (>6mb), i was wondering if an update to evince will solve that issue or adding Adobe PDF Reader plugin to Firefox is a good idea in terms of CPU/Mem usage and footprint? I managed to install the flash plug-in while i was playing with the settings of Firefox (without realizing) but i cant seem to reproduce that. Is there a particular reason on why the online Flash plug-in installation fails ? I managed to connect a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 and tested online conferencing via Flash plugin with success. However after few days, the camera image gone all fuzzy with diagonal lines. The cam is fine and works well in windows. But curious what might cause a sudden corruption of the video image from it. Is there a small tool out there, which can be embedded to openThinClient, to adjust usb video-cam settings? Or any other generic tool that can be used to run diagnosis for the webcam? I noticed openthinclient/ubuntu didnt detect the Creative Live! camera (that we have tons of them in the office) but the QuickCam pro 4000. Is there a list of USB Cameras thats supported and known to work with the version of openthinclient build of ubuntu? Can we assign quotas and/or warning (i.e. clear your tmp folder, you are reaching your local storage limit ...) to users' NFS folders? When do we delete the temp folfder of user? As it will constantly grow, wondering if there is a daemon or such that wipes out the tmp files and folder.This question is purely related to long term management and up-keep of the openthinclient server and NFS store. Is there a "centralized" logging system that can capture the stuff going wrong on user's thinclient? something like ...\thinClient_Logs\username.log which can be configured with detail of logging? What is the best approach to setup a Fail-Over thinclient Server ? As its a single point of failure where each client depends on, what will be the best approach to setup fail-over openthinclient servers? I noticed the warning about configuring the DHCP server (running on seperate server). We are already using the DHCP server for booting VoIP phones in the network and just wanna make sure if the following settings of dhcpd.conf will work OK without problems for openthinclient server? example dhcpd.conf file: subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.2.151 192.168.2.199; default-lease-time 21600; max-lease-time 43200; option routers 192.168.2.1; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option domain-name "domain.com"; option domain-name-servers 192.168.2.2; option tftp-server-name "voip.domain.com"; option ntp-servers 192.168.2.2; } -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Series-of-Questions-tp19357388p19357388.html Sent from the openthinclient.org users' mailing list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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=/ _______________________________________________ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
