Hello David! David Haché schrieb: > Hello. > New to this group... Trying to get this promising software working to > resolve my issues. > > Little background on me, I am an IT professional that is Fully certified > in the Microsoft admin courses. I am a storage and Vmware Architect. I > have a long love/hate relationship with linux. Have lots of linux boxes > running for different functions and now i would like to get some thin > clients running to get rid of the Microsoft workstation issues. (Virus > and crapware)
Ok, sounds familiar, you're not alone... :-)) > I am trying to get this software working for my environment. > I have a Good OS linux box (Ubuntu) and have the service running. > (Works) (Vmware) > I have a Windows 2008 DHCP server running. (Works) > I have the Basic config that came with the installation running. (Works) > Client (Vmware pxe) Virtual client? We have had some issues ourselves with such a setup where the server did not see the broadcasts from the client. At least not if it wasn't a bridged interface IIRC. > Here are a few questions I have. > > * I would like to follow the guide from the webpage but i hit an > issue here. > o http://openthinclient.org/tiki-index.php?page_ref_id=77 > /A "right klick > edit" on the "Package management > > Installable packages" node opens the "Installable packages" > wizard./ > o This doesn't show up and i have no idea what to do from > here. (No Edit button) It works like this: there are software repositories on the server archive.openthinclient.org which provide extra packages not yet in the OTC installation archive. Also, you can add other repositories yourself if you e.g. develop your own packages. Your server will have to be able to do HTTP access to get the list of packages and the packages themselves when needed. You might have to select the proxy during installation (can be manually added later, but this involves editing text files). One thing you might have to do is to issue an update request to the package management to get the list of currently available packages. This has to be done manually (design decission, we did not want to give the "phone home" impression...) by rigth clicking on the node "Package management" and selection "reload" which loads the current package list via HTTP. Then, there should be a few new entries in the installable and updatable sections... But you can not simply add a debian/ubuntu software package to the system because: - to make the software manageable, we have to add the XML file for the manager and a launcher for the application (or some other mechanism to start it appropriately) - in order to not have to depend on Linux as the server, we have to package the stuff in a filesystem image (we chose squashfs for that purpose due to its features) Therefore the OTC packages have to be made especially, which is not a huge task once you have done it before. Ok, the first time is not that easy, but we will provide help... :-) > * Then if i use the packaged solution (Mostly German) I can't get a > workstation up and running well. "Mostly german"? Hmmm, that should not be the case, the management should detect that your browser prefers English and start with an English locale. And the user side is configurable by setting up the location accordingly. > * And finally, could someone point me to a good step by step guide > on how to set this thing up? Hmmm, ideally the procedure on http://openthinclient.org/tiki-index.php?page_ref_id=78 should get you going. Please tell us at what points of the procedure you face problems. Then we know where to improve the documentation, insert details and remove ambiguities... :-)) > Thanks for welcoming me. You are welcome! :-) If you have any questions, please feel free to ask... -- Bye, Tobias Abt levigo systems gmbh ----------- ein unternehmen der levigo gruppe Max-Eyth-Strasse 30 Telefon: 07031 / 4161-10 D-71088 Holzgerlingen Telefax: 07031 / 4161-11 Geschäftsführer: Oliver Bausch http://systems.levigo.de/ Registergericht: Stuttgart HRB 245 180 USt-ID: DE813226078 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
