Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 3.0 and Thinknic thinclient?

2002-03-08 Thread Ken McCord
Working on a revised copy to sent to Jim by Sunday night. I'll be using the docs for setting up a demo network for an executive mgmt meeting on Monday (doing a little technology dog and pony show...). Ken McCord Michael Williams wrote: > > Hey, > I sure could use those docs. Are they here yet

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Joystick as pointing device

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Watt
At 03:17 PM 3/8/02 -0800, Rois Cannon wrote: Can anyone tell how this might be done or point me to where I can find more information on this? Or give me some ideas about another type of pointing device that wouldn't be effected by the dust? Not sure about using a joystick as a mouse,

[Ltsp-discuss] Problem with dual processor.

2002-03-08 Thread Arécio Junior
Hi there, I'm Junior from Brazil and this is my first time on this list. Can anybody help me? I've got a customer problem really strange. That is the problem: The customer was working in a Novell Netware 4.11, using a Clipper Program. We changed this to a RedHat 7.1, using Flagship to delivery

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Joystick as pointing device

2002-03-08 Thread Egan, Matt B. (Artco)
Have you given thought to an optical mouse?   That's what I use (not in LTS) on my production floor (not a woodshop but a very dirty printing shop)   They work great.   I'm not sure how you would go about the joystick thing, maybe someone else could point you in the right direction.

[Ltsp-discuss] Joystick as pointing device

2002-03-08 Thread Rois Cannon
I'm working on a project to use LTSP terminals in a wood products production facility.  Because of the dust associated with this project a mouse will not work.  Someone suggested to me that a joystick might not be effected by the dust and there is a game port on our controllers in addition t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Swap to local Disk

2002-03-08 Thread Martin Herweg
Hi ! I'm still a bit confused , maybe because I'm not familiar with devfs. I load the kernel-modules modprobe ide-disk modprobe ide-probe-mod modprobe ide-mod then hdparm, mkswap, swapon still fails because /dev/hda /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 don#t exist. so I made a classic mknod /dev/hda b 3

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rw NFS and security.

2002-03-08 Thread Jason A. Pattie
Berend De Schouwer wrote: >>>*** A possible solution may be to create a VPN(IPSEC) betweeen the client >>>and the server. Allow the home directory to be mounted only through the >>>VPN. >>> >>A very good solution and one that is not too hefty to implement. >> However, how to you store "securely"

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] VMWare

2002-03-08 Thread jam
Jo, I don't know what the other guy wants to use VMWare for, but I do ALL of my LTSP development using a VMWare virtual workstation. This way, I can do it on my laptop when I travel. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Jo wrote: > What's the use of doing that? I must be missi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Swap to local Disk

2002-03-08 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:38:54PM +0100, Martin Herweg wrote: > > > Hi ! > > I tryed to use the terminal's harddisk for swapping. > > swapon /dev/hda1 > > I get an Error > "unable to handle kernel NULL pointer... > > do I need a different kernel or a module for > local IDE-Harddrive Support

[Ltsp-discuss] Swap to local Disk

2002-03-08 Thread Martin Herweg
Hi ! I tryed to use the terminal's harddisk for swapping. swapon /dev/hda1 I get an Error "unable to handle kernel NULL pointer... do I need a different kernel or a module for local IDE-Harddrive Support ? I'm also interested in your experiences with 8MB-RAM Terminals and with swap over N

Re: [ltsp-discuss] Maximum number of workstations

2002-03-08 Thread Erick S. Tyack
Hi Graeme, To check the current value type: cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max Here is one way to change the value: echo 24576 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max. You and add the line above to your rc.local script or if you are running RedHat add the following line to your /etc/sysctl.conf file: fs.file-max =

[ltsp-discuss] Maximum number of workstations

2002-03-08 Thread Graeme Bruton
Hi all For the life of me, I can't find where I put the mail regarding this topic, so would someone kindly refresh my memory, and tell me how to up the max number of files/workstations as I am having trouble getting workstations 20 & 21 to open up their KDE and StarOffice sessions. TIA Graeme