Re: [Ltsp-discuss] flakey PXE/tftp boot

2004-02-23 Thread Neil Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Myllymaki wrote: | I have a dozen ThinkNICs using LTSP4. They do not always want to boot | up. They will all boot up, but sometimes I have to reboot them a dozen | times before they do. A typical boot where they fail starts like a | successful

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Shutting down a thin client?

2004-02-23 Thread jam
Patrick, I've been informed from the product manager at HP that the T-5000 series thin clients manufactured March 31st 2004 and later will have a bios option to set instant-off when hitting the power button. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Patrick Nixon wrote: Hey

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: thin clients?

2004-02-23 Thread Brian Payst
The GX270s are nice boxes and I recommend them. I've already got flat panel monitors, small form factor keyboards and optic mice. I'm re-purposing this celeron machine for a staff person's work machine, saving us several hundred dollars. The LTSP project produces cost-savings in indirect ways

[Ltsp-discuss] ltsp linux with RAM disk only

2004-02-23 Thread Gupta, Deepak (Deepak)
We have a need to run diskless linux telco-grade engines for one of our projects. So far, I have found a wealth of information from the LTSP web site, in fact I am close to getting a diskless client up and running. I have not done exhaustive research as yet, I am hoping that someone can

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: NE2000 ISA cards (again)

2004-02-23 Thread Hugh
Enrico Teotti wrote: Hugh ha scritto: I'm puzzled by my inability to get NE2000 ISA cards working with LTSP. I previously had these old cards working with an old LTSP setup at home on an experimental basis. I have subsequently upgraded the server at home, and reinstalled LTSP (still using

[Ltsp-discuss] BootSplash

2004-02-23 Thread Neil Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Having looked at LPP and realising that the development has been all but ceased, I looked at BootSplash. Does anyone on this list have experiance of using this with LTSP ? If you do please can you help me. I have a nice 2.4.24 FB kernel booting up my

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Shutting down a thin client?

2004-02-23 Thread Patrick Nixon
Are they going to be releasing the bios for older units? I have two Dec 03 units currently. Thanks for the legwork to get this answer! --Pat On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick, I've been informed from the product manager at HP that the T-5000 series thin clients

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] flakey PXE/tftp boot

2004-02-23 Thread Patrick Nixon
Depending on the switch, it may be a spanning-tree or Cable Looping prevention scheme kicking in. I ran into this on my lab bench since I was using a new, unconfigured switch. --Pat On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Erik Myllymaki wrote: I am thinking it might be a networking issue - I have just

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] flakey PXE/tftp boot

2004-02-23 Thread Brian Payst
Check your switch documentation. The ports should likely be set to auto or full. Most switches default to auto. The client should auto-sense based on what the switch tells it. The switch will usually let you force it. There's also an off chance the client BIOS has a setting if it's an

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] tftp problem

2004-02-23 Thread Gary Jaffe
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:38:21 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Gary Jaffe wrote: snip ... When I try to boot a workstation, /var/log/daemon.log says V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V Feb 22 21:00:00 in.tftpd[1021]: connect from

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rdesktop 'n win2k-ts

2004-02-23 Thread Ken Cobler
norbert wrote: Ken, I finally got time to setup rdesktop and it seems to work well, however as per your note should I conclude that yuo can't have multiple rdesktop sessions form an XP Pro box even if you have several clients defined ? As if that's trus is there a way around this problem ?

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] How to configure XWindows startup on server

2004-02-23 Thread jam
Hi Well, this isn't really an LTSP problem, but if you edit /etc/inittab and change the value for runlevel in that file to 5 for XWindows and 3 for text only. I think the script ltspcfg allows automatic configuration of this when you use it to configure XDMCP; it asks you if you want to

[Ltsp-discuss] How to use LBE?

2004-02-23 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
I've installed K12LTSP and apt-got LBE. How do I use LBE to build apps so that the apps can be run locally on the clients? I didn't find the answer to this in the documentation or the FAQ. Thanks for any tips. -- Jiann-Ming Su [EMAIL PROTECTED] 404-712-2603 Development Team Systems

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Advice Request: Gnome Menu Customization

2004-02-23 Thread John McCreesh
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:28:53 -0500 (EST) Patrick Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heya, I'm looking to change the system-wide menus for the Gnome installation on my Redhat 9 Box. Any URLs/howto's/etc... that people know of that would guide me in the right direction?

[Ltsp-discuss] Autologin (again :)

2004-02-23 Thread c . marschalek
Hi everyone! I've read through the archives about autologin with GDM. I had a system with KDM which logged in users automatically using one account and without a delay. The problem with this method is / was that you have to enter every client that is allowed to connect into the kdmrc file.