[Ltsp-discuss] XFS font size bigger on server than on TX

2002-05-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I've made a TX network, and i installed an XFS server. Everything is ok except one thing : fonts display normally on every TX, but one the sever, and only on the server, the fonts are twice bigger as usual. I've configured my workstation to use XFS on port 7100, and i placed a tcp/server

[Ltsp-discuss] gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error

2002-05-28 Thread Ralph
Hi, I've been using LTSP for a few months now, and it's been a great setup. However, since day one, every few hours my workstation will lock up solid. The server is unaffected. Any number or kinds of applications can be running when the crash occurs. One time the system locked up when on

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Real World Business Examples?

2002-05-28 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Tue, 28 May 2002 19:25:35 -0400 (EDT), "Julius Szelagiewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John, > the company i'm working for is not exactly what you are looking > for, but it is pretty darn close. 9 locations, not 10, wholesale, not > finance, and not switched but in the process of swi

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: linux lab

2002-05-28 Thread Derek Dresser
Quoting Daniel Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To whom it may concern: > > I was wondering what you do to secure the workstations so kids don't tamper > with the configurations etc. or if you even have a problem with this. I know > with my windows workstations I use policies to keep students out

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Real World Business Examples?

2002-05-28 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
John, the company i'm working for is not exactly what you are looking for, but it is pretty darn close. 9 locations, not 10, wholesale, not finance, and not switched but in the process of switching. it is somewhat painfull - the worst part is mozilla / netscape / opera / galeon. they all l

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Real World Business Examples?

2002-05-28 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Tue, 28 May 2002 16:08:31 -0700, "John Holbrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody have any information on some real world, multiple > location, switching from the M$ world, real world examples of > companies switching 100% to the LTSP? > > How they overcame problems and challenges, e

[Ltsp-discuss] Real World Business Examples?

2002-05-28 Thread John Holbrook
Does anybody have any information on some real world, multiple location, switching from the M$ world, real world examples of companies switching 100% to the LTSP? How they overcame problems and challenges, etc? I see lots of info on schools and businesses with one or two locations but no mid-siz

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: Thinknic and Cheap, modular LTSP installation

2002-05-28 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
Jeff, it seems i was just very lucky. than again, i had 0 disk failures on unix systems in the last 20 years. julius On 27 May 2002, Jeff Roberts wrote: > I bought 14 last year. One was dead on arrival, which they replaced, > but it took a couple of weeks. I've had a total of 4 more st

[Ltsp-discuss] Dotclock Expected???

2002-05-28 Thread Bob Wooden
I guess I need to learn how to send a "complete" fatal server error report. My 'ws001' ( the only ws I have right now) is giving me a message "Fatal server error: Dotclock expected." I can change to runlevel 3 and I will get a bash prompt. All worked fine until a few days ago. I have trie

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X-window

2002-05-28 Thread ken_yap
>Hello, >I've got DCs with two types of graphics card: NV GeF2 MX200 and onboard >SIS630. The DCs boot in runlevel 3 fine, but if I start the /tmp/start_ws >the ws flash once and roughly 5 seconds the monitor's LED change to orange. >The system is SuSe 7.3, the XSERVER is auto in lts.conf. If I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How toget a DHCP server to ignore

2002-05-28 Thread Alex Perry
There are two aspects to this. First the technical ... You can configure Linux DHCP so it only issues IP addresses to computers for which the MAC addresses are explicitly listed. That way, it will never respond for Windows non-LTSP clients. You can configure EtherBoot so that it only accepts DHC

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: Thinknic and Cheap, modular LTSPinstallation

2002-05-28 Thread Jeff Roberts
I bought 14 last year. One was dead on arrival, which they replaced, but it took a couple of weeks. I've had a total of 4 more stop working so far. They're happy to replace them, if you call them up, run down their checklist, pack up the broken one and send it in. And it only takes a few weeks

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Wine/Crossover plug-in with LTSP

2002-05-28 Thread Jim Wildman
The gotchas might include the disk space required for the install. My experience is that the current versions work much better installed on a per user basis rather than in a shared mode. This means if you are using CrossOver Office, each user would need to have a full copy of Office installed o

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: Thinknic and Cheap, modular LTSP installation

2002-05-28 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
Carrie, i have about 60 of the little buggers and i had a problem with one cd and one keyboard. didn't even bother asking for replacement. about 30 of the boxes have been running close to a year. julius On Tue, 28 May 2002, Jan Wilson wrote: > * CARRIE COY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020528 08:

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Wine/Crossover plug-in with LTSP

2002-05-28 Thread Charles Marcus
Funny... Or are you saying that WINE is a problem with LTSP? According to most things I've read, installing it (Crossover plug-in) is very simple, *including* their version of WINE, but I wanted to know if there were any gotchas when istalling running with LTSP. Charles > From: John McCreesh [

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NIS for Local apps

2002-05-28 Thread Remi BERNHARD
Yes I found it, thanks a lot. I'll have to test it soon. I don't understand why this very interesting section does not appear in the latests docs. Someone on the list could do something for that ? Regards, Remi. At 01:21 27/05/02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Remi, > >Take a look at

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wine/Crossover plug-in with LTSP

2002-05-28 Thread John McCreesh
On Tue, 28 May 2002 10:25:04 -0400 "Charles Marcus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone using this? Any caveats/gotchas I should look out for? Yes - it's called Wine :-) John ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer'

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Where is the source for LTSP

2002-05-28 Thread John McCreesh
On Mon, 27 May 2002 13:53:17 -0700 Alex Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: John McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But, you don't need the sources. You don't want to compile > > > those programs for a S390, unless you are using the s390 as > > > a client (doub

[Ltsp-discuss] Dual NIC's (Solved) ....but

2002-05-28 Thread oscar
Thanks a bunch Hans, and others for the suggestions and solutions (Network cables were changed without my knowledge). But my dilemma now is that once a few users login the systems seems to slow down and eventually freeze. It has over 3gb of DDR, Dual 1.8 ghz processors, ver 7.3 with LTSP 3.0. I kn

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] tset error

2002-05-28 Thread jam
Danny, Are you doing this on the workstation ? Maybe tset includes a shared lib that you don't have available to your workstation. Try using ldd to see what libs it needs. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 28 May 2002, Danny Grunewald wrote: > Hi @ all ! > > I got a problem and can

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rsh: suggestions ...

2002-05-28 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Tue, 28 May 2002 22:49:37 +0800 (WST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I need to communicate with my ltsp terminals (independant of the display) > >[ server -> ws : cash draw open, switch VirtualTerms etc] >[ ws -> server : start_ws must launch the app on the server] > > The ltsp-

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] How toget a DHCP server to ignore none-etherboot clients?

2002-05-28 Thread Egan, Matt B. (Artco)
> > > If your only serving your LTSP machines you need to make > sure you don't have > > a range statement in there. If you do it that way the only > machines that > > will get IP addresses are the ones that match the MAC > address of the host > > declarations (that would be only the LTSP mach

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X-window refresh problem

2002-05-28 Thread Alessandro Selli
Il giorno Tue, 28 May 2002, vcare così ha scritto: |From: vcare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" |<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 17:35:20 +0530 |Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] X-window refresh problem | |I am using a mediagx thinclient which boots ups into X-windows but ther

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X-window

2002-05-28 Thread jam
Szeni, Runlevel 3 doesn't give you an error message, because it isn't trying to run X. While in Runlevel 3, try this: sh /tmp/start_ws That will try Xwindows 1 time, and return with an error. Tell us what that error is, and maybe we can help you figure it out. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECT

[Ltsp-discuss] tset error

2002-05-28 Thread Danny Grunewald
Hi @ all ! I got a problem and can't help myself. I hope anybody of you can give me a hint to solve it. Everything works fine, I use local Apps, NIS, local swap... but if I change the user via "su - username" i get this: "tset: error while loading shared libraries: tset: undefined symbol: _nc_roo

[Ltsp-discuss] X-window

2002-05-28 Thread Szeni
Hello, I've got DCs with two types of graphics card: NV GeF2 MX200 and onboard SIS630. The DCs boot in runlevel 3 fine, but if I start the /tmp/start_ws the ws flash once and roughly 5 seconds the monitor's LED change to orange. The system is SuSe 7.3, the XSERVER is auto in lts.conf. If I go ba

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cheap, modular LTSP installation

2002-05-28 Thread Jan Wilson
* CARRIE COY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020528 08:57]: > We bought a single ThinkNIC to evaluate. We liked it but it died after > about a month. They shipped a replacement (after we secured it with a > credit card). The replacement lasted about a month then it, too, died. > Don't know if we jus

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How toget a DHCP server to ignore none-etherboot clients?

2002-05-28 Thread rob
> If your only serving your LTSP machines you need to make sure you don't have > a range statement in there. If you do it that way the only machines that > will get IP addresses are the ones that match the MAC address of the host > declarations (that would be only the LTSP machines) > > If you d

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 3COM LAN Modems and LTSP

2002-05-28 Thread jam
James, You could build an initrd that doesn't call dhclient. Grab the ltsp_initrd_kit and have a look. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 28 May 2002, James Newlin wrote: > Hello All. We need some advice. Should it be possible to tag the kernel > using mknbi-linux to have the LTSP ser

[Ltsp-discuss] rsh: suggestions ...

2002-05-28 Thread jam
Hi I need to communicate with my ltsp terminals (independant of the display) [ server -> ws : cash draw open, switch VirtualTerms etc] [ ws -> server : start_ws must launch the app on the server] The ltsp-ssh package looks like monster overkill. rsh needs to be hacked slightly to get a UI

[Ltsp-discuss] 3COM LAN Modems and LTSP

2002-05-28 Thread James Newlin
Hello All. We need some advice. Should it be possible to tag the kernel using mknbi-linux to have the LTSP servers IP address hardcoded and not use DHCP or BOOTP to get it? We have some remote sites that use 3COM LAN modems to connect to our server. It works fine. The connections are telnet

[Ltsp-discuss] Sine/Crossover plug-in with LTSP

2002-05-28 Thread Charles Marcus
Anyone using this? Any caveats/gotchas I should look out for? Thanks Charles ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm __

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] How toget a DHCP server to ignore none-etherboot clients?

2002-05-28 Thread Egan, Matt B. (Artco)
Send us your config. If your only serving your LTSP machines you need to make sure you don't have a range statement in there. If you do it that way the only machines that will get IP addresses are the ones that match the MAC address of the host declarations (that would be only the LTSP machines)

[Ltsp-discuss] How toget a DHCP server to ignore none-etherboot clients?

2002-05-28 Thread David Robson
Hi, I am running etherboot, Linux Terminal Server and DHCP with no problem. However, I share the network with Windows clients which try to get IP addresses from another DHCP server. Unfortunately, they sometimes get IP addresses from my DHCP server. My question is: Can I get my DHCP server t

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: X-window refresh problem

2002-05-28 Thread jam
Dinesh, The MediaGX chipset is sometimes difficult to setup. Various versions of it do different things. On the LTSP download page, way down near the bottom, in the Xtras section, there are some files for the Jammin-125. One of the files is an Xserver for the MediaGX 5530 chipset that works wi

[Ltsp-discuss] X-window refresh problem

2002-05-28 Thread vcare
I am using a mediagx thinclient which boots ups into X-windows but there is long keyboard delay when i type a user name nothing appears on the screen same with the password also. When i press ctr+alt+f1 try to find out what could be the error , and again come back to Ctr+alt+f2 i can see the scre

Re:[2] [Ltsp-discuss] Chat / Messenger Application (CompartmentalizingLocal Apps)

2002-05-28 Thread Vladimir N.Velychko
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Philip A. Roa wrote: > Initially, i was interested in imici because it was able to communicate > across windows / linux platforms (which > is what i really wanted), but i was concerned of the licensing cost. > > So, i decided to use an existing windows open license messenge