[openthinclient-user] Changing text on Openthinclient Login screen
Hi All, I have successfully installed Openthinclient on a windows server and is successfully serving the business to several machines. One problem I would like to resolve, on the Openthinclient login screen . Instead of having the text Welcome to Openthinclient, can this be changed to something like Please log-on with your normal account details: or something similar. People don't realise the login is connected to our windows domain controller. Many thanks Kevin Halstead -- Kevin Halstead Team Leader - Desktop Helpdesk Support, Zen Internet T: 0845 058 9097 F: 0845 058 9005 W: www.zen.co.uk Transfer your telephone line to Zen Avoid BT price increases, long term contracts and upfront payments by transferring to Zen Talk. Monthly contracts from only ?11.22/month inc VAT To register your interest email vo...@zen.co.uk or call 0845 057 8315 This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. Zen Internet Limited may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security. Zen Internet Limited is registered in England and Wales, Sandbrook Park, Sandbrook Way, Rochdale, OL11 1RY Company No. 03101568 VAT Reg No. 686 0495 01 -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have prevented many mid-market businesses from deploying virtual desktops? How do next-generation virtual desktops provide companies an easier-to-deploy, easier-to-manage and more affordable virtual desktop model.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426474/___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
[openthinclient-user] Slow boot
Hi! I'm experiencing a strange problem. I have a domain controller (Win2003) with DHCP and DNS and a terminalserver (Win2008r2). OTC is installed on the terminalserver. Both Servers are connected direktly to a switch. Also connected directly to this switch are most of the clients. I have a second switch connected to the main switch to multiply network connections in my room. Clients connected direktly to the main switch boot slowly. First the DHCP process takes quiet a long time until the client recieves the OTC-packages. Then first the splash screen appears for a while but disappears again after a few seconds... After that only those (for me) obscure linux lines run through and sometimes even halt for a while. Finally OTC starts and opens RDP. The whole process takes up to three minutes. If I start a Client connected to the switch in my room the whole process is much faster. The time until the client receives the OTC package is much shorter. While booting the splashscreen never disapears. All in all it takes 1 minute to boot into rdp! I tested this behaviour with a couple of clients. It is reproducible. Anyone any ideas? -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have prevented many mid-market businesses from deploying virtual desktops? How do next-generation virtual desktops provide companies an easier-to-deploy, easier-to-manage and more affordable virtual desktop model.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426474/___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
Re: [openthinclient-user] Slow boot
What type of switch is the big one? Let me guess - Cisco? T. Häcker -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have prevented many mid-market businesses from deploying virtual desktops? How do next-generation virtual desktops provide companies an easier-to-deploy, easier-to-manage and more affordable virtual desktop model.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426474/ ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
Re: [openthinclient-user] Slow boot
It works! Thank You! Von: Lee Allen [mailto:l...@leecallen.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. September 2011 14:30 An: openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [openthinclient-user] Slow boot This is probably more applicable to a Cisco switch than a Netgear but it's worth a try: In your switch configuration, look for a setting like spanning tree -- either at the port level or global -- and turn it off. Lee On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Andreas von der Reith andreasvonderre...@nordkehdingen.de wrote: Hi! I'm experiencing a strange problem. I have a domain controller (Win2003) with DHCP and DNS and a terminalserver (Win2008r2). OTC is installed on the terminalserver. Both Servers are connected direktly to a switch. Also connected directly to this switch are most of the clients. I have a second switch connected to the main switch to multiply network connections in my room. Clients connected direktly to the main switch boot slowly. First the DHCP process takes quiet a long time until the client recieves the OTC-packages. Then first the splash screen appears for a while but disappears again after a few seconds... After that only those (for me) obscure linux lines run through and sometimes even halt for a while. Finally OTC starts and opens RDP. The whole process takes up to three minutes. If I start a Client connected to the switch in my room the whole process is much faster. The time until the client receives the OTC package is much shorter. While booting the splashscreen never disapears. All in all it takes 1 minute to boot into rdp! I tested this behaviour with a couple of clients. It is reproducible. Anyone any ideas? -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have prevented many mid-market businesses from deploying virtual desktops? How do next-generation virtual desktops provide companies an easier-to-deploy, easier-to-manage and more affordable virtual desktop model.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426474/ ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- Lee Allen email: l...@leecallen.com bus: (716) 773-2729 home: (716) 773-2326 cell: (716) 880-0854 fax: (716) 408-8844 -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have prevented many mid-market businesses from deploying virtual desktops? How do next-generation virtual desktops provide companies an easier-to-deploy, easier-to-manage and more affordable virtual desktop model.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426474/___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
Re: [openthinclient-user] Slow boot
I am adding this information in case it is useful to others... I have worked with another platform that uses tftp to download images, and it has the same issue. The vendor of that platform (Comtrol) told me about the problem with the Spanning Tree algorithm. Here is my limited understanding of the issue, based on Cisco's documentation: Switches can be interconnected in ways that provide redundant paths, to allow the network to route around a switch or cable failure. This can create circular paths -- infinite loops. The Spanning Tree algorithm is a mechanism to identify and avoid those loops. It can result in individual switch ports being closed for non-trivial periods of time. That's as far as my understanding goes. I don't know how or why the boot/tftp process triggers this mechanism. Or perhaps the tftp process is just more sensitive to a brief closure of a switch port. I had previously seen the problem only with Cisco switches. Obviously the mechanism is also employed in some Netgear switches. I think it would be present only in better quality switches, where redundant configuration is expected and supported. Lee On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Andreas von der Reith andreasvonderre...@nordkehdingen.de wrote: It works! Thank You! ** ** *Von:* Lee Allen [mailto:l...@leecallen.com] *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 15. September 2011 14:30 *An:* openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net *Betreff:* Re: [openthinclient-user] Slow boot ** ** This is probably more applicable to a Cisco switch than a Netgear but it's worth a try: ** ** In your switch configuration, look for a setting like spanning tree -- either at the port level or global -- and turn it off. ** ** Lee On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Andreas von der Reith andreasvonderre...@nordkehdingen.de wrote: Hi! I‘m experiencing a strange problem. I have a domain controller (Win2003) with DHCP and DNS and a terminalserver (Win2008r2). OTC is installed on the terminalserver. Both Servers are connected direktly to a switch. Also connected directly to this switch are most of the clients. I have a second switch connected to the main switch to multiply network connections in my room. Clients connected direktly to the main switch boot slowly. First the DHCP process takes quiet a long time until the client recieves the OTC-packages. Then first the splash screen appears for a while but disappears again after a few seconds… After that only those (for me) obscure linux lines run through and sometimes even halt for a while. Finally OTC starts and opens RDP. The whole process takes up to three minutes. If I start a Client connected to the switch in my room the whole process is much faster. The time until the client receives the OTC package is much shorter. While booting the splashscreen never disapears. All in all it takes 1 minute to boot into rdp! I tested this behaviour with a couple of clients. It is reproducible. Anyone any ideas? -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have prevented many mid-market businesses from deploying virtual desktops? How do next-generation virtual desktops provide companies an easier-to-deploy, easier-to-manage and more affordable virtual desktop model.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426474/ ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user ** ** -- *Lee Allen* email: l...@leecallen.com bus: (716) 773-2729 home: (716) 773-2326 cell: (716) 880-0854 fax: (716) 408-8844 ** ** -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have prevented many mid-market businesses from deploying virtual desktops? How do next-generation virtual desktops provide companies an easier-to-deploy, easier-to-manage and more affordable virtual desktop model.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426474/ ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- *Lee Allen* email: l...@leecallen.com bus: (716) 773-2729 home: (716) 773-2326 cell: (716) 880-0854 fax: (716) 408-8844 -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have prevented many mid-market businesses from deploying virtual desktops? How do next-generation virtual desktops
Re: [openthinclient-user] Slow boot
Und dann hat mir Lee geantwortet. Ich hab mich artig bedankt! Und dann hat geschrieben, dass ich very welcome bin Ich bin so gerührt... Und dann kams ganz dick. Es klingelte das Telefon... Kieler Nummer glaub ich. Ich dachte zuerst einer wollte mir Druckertoner verkaufen... War aber irgendwie so ein Typ von einer Uni?!?!?!? Keine Ahnung. Hab das nicht so ganz verstanden. Sprach aber sehr geordnet nicht so ein Gestammel wie ich es allgemein von mir gebe. Wie auch immer. Ich wäre ja fast gestorben. Und dann wollte der wissen wie ich das Problem gelöst habe Man war ich froh als der wieder aufgelegt hat. Ich weiß da gar nichts zu zu sagen. Von: Lee Allen [mailto:l...@leecallen.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. September 2011 14:30 An: openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [openthinclient-user] Slow boot This is probably more applicable to a Cisco switch than a Netgear but it's worth a try: In your switch configuration, look for a setting like spanning tree -- either at the port level or global -- and turn it off. Lee On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Andreas von der Reith andreasvonderre...@nordkehdingen.de wrote: Hi! I'm experiencing a strange problem. I have a domain controller (Win2003) with DHCP and DNS and a terminalserver (Win2008r2). OTC is installed on the terminalserver. Both Servers are connected direktly to a switch. Also connected directly to this switch are most of the clients. I have a second switch connected to the main switch to multiply network connections in my room. Clients connected direktly to the main switch boot slowly. First the DHCP process takes quiet a long time until the client recieves the OTC-packages. Then first the splash screen appears for a while but disappears again after a few seconds... After that only those (for me) obscure linux lines run through and sometimes even halt for a while. Finally OTC starts and opens RDP. The whole process takes up to three minutes. If I start a Client connected to the switch in my room the whole process is much faster. The time until the client receives the OTC package is much shorter. While booting the splashscreen never disapears. All in all it takes 1 minute to boot into rdp! I tested this behaviour with a couple of clients. It is reproducible. Anyone any ideas? -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have prevented many mid-market businesses from deploying virtual desktops? How do next-generation virtual desktops provide companies an easier-to-deploy, easier-to-manage and more affordable virtual desktop model.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426474/ ___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user -- Lee Allen email: l...@leecallen.com bus: (716) 773-2729 home: (716) 773-2326 cell: (716) 880-0854 fax: (716) 408-8844 -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have prevented many mid-market businesses from deploying virtual desktops? How do next-generation virtual desktops provide companies an easier-to-deploy, easier-to-manage and more affordable virtual desktop model.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426474/___ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
