Re: [Ltsp-discuss] mount nfs root 4 min

2002-06-26 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
On Tuesday, 25. June 2002 14:49, you wrote: > From: "Francis Avila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] mount nfs root 4 min > Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:44:10 -0400 > > [...] how bad rtl8139 is. > > It's important to note that the rtl8139 chipset is really not a whole lot > better th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] mount nfs root 4 min

2002-06-26 Thread Derek Zoolander
On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 09:26, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: > On Tuesday, 25. June 2002 14:49, you wrote: > > From: "Francis Avila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] mount nfs root 4 min > > Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:44:10 -0400 > > > > [...] how bad rtl8139 is. > > > > I am u

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: Tftp

2002-06-26 Thread CTS-internet, Martin
Hi Jim and list users, Tanks for your help, its running now, it was a very stupid thing of myself i had set the sever_args wrong. But then there is an other problem. I turn on the work station and press the "n" for network booting, its an 3com 905c-tx NIC. It finds the DHCP server, then it finds

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] loosing connection

2002-06-26 Thread Vladimir N.Velychko
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Michel Donais wrote: > The network I'm building put the work load on an SCO server thru Telnet. > > The worst thing I expect is that a worksation loose power and comes > down. So the telnet link is broken and the process in the SCO server > is lost and the application and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: Tftp

2002-06-26 Thread Conrad Lawes
  The 3Com Managed PC Boot Agent on 3C905C adapter by default is configured to use PXE boot protocol.  However, you can also configure it to use the BOOTP, DHCP, IPX/SPX boot protocol.  Anyway, you  can only one boot protocol at any given time.   It is important to note the PXE booting works sligh

[Ltsp-discuss] Sound and ica

2002-06-26 Thread Stephen Berry
Hello, I am using LTSP v3 on RH7.1 and my terminal machines run the Citrix ICA client on boot up. Using the sound package from the LTSP contrib pages, is it possible to have sound on the Citrix ICA client or would that not work? Thank you, Stephen -

[Ltsp-discuss] Odd Request.

2002-06-26 Thread Watson, Keith
Hello List, Because of requirements set by my employer I am forced to attempt to find a solution to the following situation. Rather than having LTS boot to a standard login, they would like to have it either run an appliction that kicks off a windows terminal session (rdesktop -f servername). or

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Odd Request.

2002-06-26 Thread Dave Shiels
Watson, Keith wrote: > Hello List, > > Because of requirements set by my employer I am forced to attempt to find a > solution to the following situation. > > Rather than having LTS boot to a standard login, they would like to have it > either run an appliction that kicks off a windows terminal

[Ltsp-discuss] ltsp/install/trouble

2002-06-26 Thread claus Christian Larsen
> > >> This is what happen on the worstation when i boot: 21. done rom segment 0x0800 length 0x4000 reloc 0x9400 a20 enabled via bios Etherboot 5.0.6 (GPL) Tagged ELF for for [3c5x9] Boot from (N)etwork or from (L)ocal? N Probing...[3c5x9]3c5x9 board on isa at 0x0300 - 10baseT Ethernet ad

[Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Lowe, Scott
LTSP sounds like an extremely promising product, but like many others, I’m a little wary at jumping off the Microsoft bandwagon.  I want to save money and give my users a great environment, but I don’t want to screw myself in the process.  As such, I have a few questions that maybe someone

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: ltsp/install/trouble

2002-06-26 Thread claus Christian Larsen
> > > > yes, suse 8.0 > > > With regards Claus Larsen > > # > # Don't forget to set run_dhcpd=1 in /etc/init.d/dhcpd > # once you adjusted this file and copied it to /etc/dhcpd.conf. > # > > ddns-update-style none; > default-lease-time21600; > max-lease-time

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Sound and ica

2002-06-26 Thread Nigel Pallett
Hi Stephen, If sound is correctly configured on your workstations, and your ICA client is configured for sound, it should work ok. It certainly works for us here at optimus. > I am using LTSP v3 on RH7.1 and my terminal machines run the Citrix ICA > client on boot up. Using the sound package

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: ltsp/install/trouble

2002-06-26 Thread Egan, Matt B. (Artco)
You have another dhcp server answering your requests for an ipaddress. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber Inc. Don't miss the IM event of the season | Special offer for OSDN members! JabberConf 2002, Aug. 20-22, Keystone, CO http:/

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Phil Driscoll
The only question I'm qualified to answer: > * How long does it take a diskless WS to boot from a central > server, assuming a decently powered server and a 100Mbps network > connection? Not long at all - much quicker than any version of Windows on any box I've ever used. We have 2

[Ltsp-discuss] opera 6

2002-06-26 Thread Jason Fillman
Hey All, Finally got my tcsx-1 running. I made a few careless errors, like having mismatched names for my terminal. Everything seems to be working fine so far... OpenOffice, Win4Lin, Evolution, Mozilla...etc. with one exception. When I try to run Opera 6, usually a fast/light little app, the te

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Lowe, Scott wrote: Hi Scott -- Russ Herrold here -- when I was an AAG on Ohio, first in a line department regulating charitable soliticacions, and them on Chief Counsel's staff, I spoke with people at the national NAAG office with some frequency. > LTSP sounds like an ext

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Odd Request.

2002-06-26 Thread jam
Keith, There are various ways to accomplish this. One way would be to configure your display manager (GDM,KDM) to perform an auto login. Then, you can add the rdesktop command to the users .Xclients file. Another thing you could do, is wait until we release LTSP v3.1, which will make it real

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] opera 6

2002-06-26 Thread jam
Jason, Can you try sitting at the server console, and run Opera ? it really shouldn't have anything to do with the workstation, because the app runs on the server anyway. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 26 Jun 2002, Jason Fillman wrote: > Hey All, > > Finally got my tcsx-1 running. I mad

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] x0rfbserver dies when user logs in ?

2002-06-26 Thread Charles Marcus
> From: Derek Zoolander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 26 Jun 2002 08:36:54 +1000 > > I could not get it to work this way either. I did get > it work work very well using a different approach. > First enable local apps on the workstation you are > interested in. Then telnet to the workstation and > l

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Michael Marschall
To add a point. my clients load in no more than 30 seconds. michael On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, R P Herrold wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Lowe, Scott wrote: > > Hi Scott -- Russ Herrold here -- when I was an AAG on Ohio, > first in a line department regulating charitable > soliticacions, and them on C

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Business cases

2002-06-26 Thread Tommy Eaton
Is there anyway we can add a portion to the ltsp.org website that has content relating to this matter? Or perhaps have a separate website dedicated to this subject? It seems this is a rather frequent request... Since many of us need to go before a supervisor/executive board/city council/etc to g

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] School Library

2002-06-26 Thread Jim Wildman
I have not used it, but am in the process of setting it up for a small private library. http://www.koha.org Jim Wildman, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rossberry.com On Wed, 26 Jun

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Business cases

2002-06-26 Thread Jeff Roberts
I've mentioned it before, but I still havent worked on the site at all. I have the domain givemthebird.com . I want to have a site with case studies, tips, and howto's about businesses using linux, especially ltsp. Kind of like the opposite of wehavethewayout.com . I work for a produce warehou

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Jan Humme
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 08:05 pm, R P Herrold wrote: > With a dual P-III 650, and a G or ram, switched, a ThinkNIC > comes up, worst case in 1 m 52 s (based on much testing) ?? On my old Pentium 266 MHz, 128 MB RAM, old (hence slow) 4 GB HDD, 10BASE-T ethernet, my ThinkNIC boots in less than

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Odd Request.

2002-06-26 Thread Jim Wildman
You can also place a script as the 'shell' in /etc/passwd, though there are security implications (ie, can they get out of the shell etc). You have to add your script to the /etc/shells file. Jim Wildman, CISSP

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Egan, Matt B. (Artco)
The only thing ive noticed that really affects my boot time is if I have a lot of network traffic when the server is tftp'ing the kernel to the WS. (worst case it takes 30 seconds) After that it depends on the speed of the machine booting the kernel. Even my 486's boot the kernel in acceptable ti

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Odd Request.

2002-06-26 Thread Charles Marcus
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:20:07 -0400 (EDT) > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've been saying in a couple of weeks, for about 2 > months now, and I still have some work to do on the > configuration tool. > > So, it will be at least a couple of weeks before it > is ready. Hey Jim, you're not rela

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Business cases

2002-06-26 Thread Glenn Jacobson
If you are interested, our updated web site has several business cases for LTSP installs. Types of companies where we've installed LTSP: 1. Law Firms, 2. Government installations, 3. Non Profit Recreational Organizations, 4. Manufacturing Companies, 5. Distribution Companies. Frankly every

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Mark Farey
> Collaborative calendaring if really used, has a couple *nix > solutions whcih are price competitive. But the Corel Word > Perfect Suite had Perfect Scredule when I last looked at it. > Are you using the Corel Scheduler, the MS scheduler, a paper > ad-hoc solution, ... ? > I'm investigating us

[Ltsp-discuss] Unable to load file (only several ws)

2002-06-26 Thread Adinda Praditya
Hi all,... i'd like to ask a question about unable to load vmlinuz after my ws got its IP (so it shouldn't be a cable stuff -physical issue) from LTS. Here are what i've done to check what's going on: => to make sure tftp is running: # netstat -an|grep 69 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:32769

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Michael Marschall
My suggestion for groupware is phpgroupware. It has just about everything you can want in a groupware suite. www.phpgroupware.org On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Mark Farey wrote: > > > Collaborative calendaring if really used, has a couple *nix > > solutions whcih are price competitive. But the Corel Wo

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Lowe, Scott
We're somewhat married to Exchange -- what are your thoughts on Evolution? -Original Message- From: Michael Marschall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 3:28 PM To: Mark Farey Cc: 'R P Herrold'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP My

[Ltsp-discuss] IceWM / LTSP Configuration How-To

2002-06-26 Thread Charles Marcus
Someone was gonna put something together that detailed how they had locked down IceWM - did I miss it? I didn't see it in the archives anywhere... I would really like to get my hands on that... Thanks Charles --- This sf.net email is spons

[Ltsp-discuss] kernel compile + sound

2002-06-26 Thread execution . error
Hello, I have 2 problems: 1. When I try to create a boot image, it doesn't work. I use the config file of the latest initrd package, I use the buildk script, I habve mknbi-linux 1.2-7. The initrd-image gets much too large compared with the one in the kit (bost 2.4.18 kernel). kit: 700kb mine:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread John McCreesh
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:21:22 -0400 "Lowe, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're somewhat married to Exchange -- what are your thoughts on > Evolution? > Not a complete plug-in replacement for Outlook - it uses the web access interface of Exchange 2000 (which you probably aren't using yet :-

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] opera 6

2002-06-26 Thread Ken Barber
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 11:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 26 Jun 2002, Jason Fillman wrote: > > When I try to run Opera 6, > > usually a fast/light little app, the terminal bogs down for quite a > > while. Then Opera does start up, starts loading the home page, closes > > the first browse

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Jan Humme wrote: > On Wednesday 26 June 2002 08:05 pm, R P Herrold wrote: > > With a dual P-III 650, and a G or ram, switched, a ThinkNIC > > comes up, worst case in 1 m 52 s (based on much testing) > > ?? > > On my old Pentium 266 MHz, 128 MB RAM, old (hence slow) 4 GB HDD

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Derek Zoolander
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 02:59, Phil Driscoll wrote: > The only question I'm qualified to answer: > > * How long does it take a diskless WS to boot from a central > > server, assuming a decently powered server and a 100Mbps network > > connection? > > Not long at all - much quicker tha

[Ltsp-discuss] Adding iceWM to LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Mark Farey
Can someone please advise me how to add iceWM to my choice of Window Managers? I have installed the iceWM rpm, but cannot see how to enable it for LTSP. Thanks, Mark Ottawa, Canada. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber Inc. Don't mi

[Ltsp-discuss] Cluster of ltsp servers - network traffic

2002-06-26 Thread Robert Maynord
Dear ltsp folks: Last year our school added a ltsp server to our pre-existing Linux network. There were around 20 workstations on the ltsp server. It worked well, until all 20 machines were being used at the same time, then things slowed down. This summer I have acquired three HP netserver

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cluster of ltsp servers - network traffic

2002-06-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Robert Maynord wrote: > It is, of course, easy to simply set up more ltsp servers for clusters > of workstations, letting the workstations get their dhcp from the > regular server. The only concern is network traffic. I wonder if it is > an advantage to have each ltsp se

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Mark Farey wrote: > I'm investigating using LTSP for a medical practice, which is a similar > requirement. You might like to take a look at twiggi for the scheduling and > groupware. See http://myezserver.com/twiggi.html fascinating -- a GPL'd variant exists, which solves li

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, John McCreesh wrote: > > We're somewhat married to Exchange -- what are your thoughts on > > Evolution? > > Not a complete plug-in replacement for Outlook - it uses the web access > interface of Exchange 2000 (which you probably aren't using yet :-). > Check the small print

[Ltsp-discuss] Simulation software for load testing

2002-06-26 Thread vcare
I wan to test the load on my server when 40 users connect . I want to know any available Simulation Software for Load Testing. where i can test the load No.of user wise and Software wise Regards dinesh --- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://w

[Ltsp-discuss] RE: LTSP in GOV (resent)

2002-06-26 Thread Chris Thomas
I found something that isn't LTSP, but it is about using linux thin clients in the enterprise environment. The city of Largo in Florida have 400 x-terminals running on a RH 7.1 server. Here are a few of the articles: http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/0906.xterminal2.html http://news.kde.

[Ltsp-discuss] doc for workstation LDAP auth.

2002-06-26 Thread AMOROS Joel
Hello, I write a small doc to show how to configure LDAP access instead of NIS for local apps. in LTSP : http://joel.amoros.free.fr/ltsp_ldap It's only working notes, not a full Howto. Joël -- Joël Amoros Ministère de l'éducation nationale/Direction des affaires financières/Service des pensio