[Ltsp-discuss] remote login

2004-08-18 Thread Walter
Hi ltsp users, I have installed ltsp 4.1 recently. When my clients boot they get stuck up at a grey screen with only the cursor showing. how do i enable xdmcp to enable remote connections. I enbaled GDM during the installation. Regards Walter --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checke

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Failed the checksum test error

2004-08-18 Thread Jim McQuillan
Brian, what version of ltspadmin are you using ? The latest is 0.10. There was a problem that was fixed a few days ago, and it seems to be working much better for people. If you don't have v0.10, try grabbing the latest, it's in the ltsp-utils package at http://www.ltsp.org/ltsp-4.1.html Jim M

[Ltsp-discuss] Open Source - Coming of Age

2004-08-18 Thread Jim McQuillan
Hello list, Last week, I was asked to comment about the issues facing the Open Source world. Those comments, and the comments of my friends John Terpstra and John Weathersby were collected together into a report published by ConsortiumInfo.org. If you are interested, you can find a copy of it he

[Ltsp-discuss] OT Regis terminal support

2004-08-18 Thread Peter Rundle
This question is a little off topic but hoping that maybe someone might be able to help out. I need to be able to provide terminal access from the LTSP workstation to an openVMS server (no problem xterm, gterm, eterm etc) However there is an application that uses Regis (old Dec graphics "standa

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slow Terminal Boot times

2004-08-18 Thread Peter Rundle
Umm, yeah, that was gonna be my second guess :) I Bet ;-) Clever this traffic shaping, tricky too apparently :-( P. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R fo

[Ltsp-discuss] Failed the checksum test error

2004-08-18 Thread Brian R. Watters
Hello all, I have noticed issues on the list talking about this but I can not find the fix, Any insight and or help would be great .. Ready to install/update the selected LTSP packages? (y/n) y Calculating package dependencies... Downloading packages from: http://www.ltsp.org/ltsp-4.1/ ... lts

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SWM 4.1

2004-08-18 Thread Tarjei Huse
On ons, 2004-08-18 at 16:45, Gideon Romm wrote: > Hi, everyone. I just wanted to make a quick post to let anyone who is > interested know that in the tradition that all good releases come in > threes, the Symbiont Workstation Manager 4.1 was just released > yesterday. Hi, I tried to find it on so

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slow Terminal Boot times

2004-08-18 Thread Jim McQuillan
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 22:20, Peter Rundle wrote: > Found it! > > There was some traffic shaping on the server that was allocating the > terminals to the wrong queue! Umm, yeah, that was gonna be my second guess :) Jim. > > Cheers > > P. > > > --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slow Terminal Boot times

2004-08-18 Thread Peter Rundle
Found it! There was some traffic shaping on the server that was allocating the terminals to the wrong queue! Cheers P. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Kiosk running Firefox

2004-08-18 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Jay wrote: > I need an example of running just one application (firefox) under LTSP 4.1. > The client would boot up and start a customized locked down firefox for a > Pulbic Library enviornment. We have the full blown Terminal server working > great we just need to tweek it

[Ltsp-discuss] Win2K DHCP server

2004-08-18 Thread Matt Alexander
The company I work for is very interested in using Linux thin-clients. We have a Win2K DHCP server that is not going to go away any time soon, however. Does anyone have step-by-step instructions for configuring a Win2K DHCP server for Linux thin-clients? Thanks, ~Matt

[Ltsp-discuss] Lockups in ICA clients

2004-08-18 Thread Darryl Bond
I found a solution protracted fault with LTSP (V3) boxes the other day. I had been having complaints of people having random lockups in the ICA client up to 5 times a day. The CITRIX session could be shadowed and manipulated but the user could see none of it. Most clients affected were VIA EDEN

[Ltsp-discuss] Thin Client Distributer in Britan/Ireland

2004-08-18 Thread ian clancy
Hi LTS users, I'm based in the Republic of Ireland and am looking to source an inexpensive ~200 thin client from a supplier in Ireland or Britain. I really like the thin clients available from www.disklessworkstations.com and from the symbiont store http://shop.symbio-technologies.com . However the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Kiosk running Firefox

2004-08-18 Thread Brian Payst
I've done exactly what you are trying to do. I haven't documented it well, however due to lack of time. I used IceWM, which is easy to lock-down and kdm as the login manager (easy to configure for auto-login). You can modify the browser as well and take out things you don't want. I just updated

[Ltsp-discuss] Kiosk running Firefox

2004-08-18 Thread Jay
Greetings I have searched the archive and found some good links. http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/atk/ltsp_kiosk/ I need an example of running just one application (firefox) under LTSP 4.1. The client would boot up and start a customized locked down firefox for a Pulbic Library enviornment. We have t

[Ltsp-discuss] SWM 4.1

2004-08-18 Thread Gideon Romm
Hi, everyone. I just wanted to make a quick post to let anyone who is interested know that in the tradition that all good releases come in threes, the Symbiont Workstation Manager 4.1 was just released yesterday. I want to thank all of the hard working people who helped on this project, many of w

[Ltsp-discuss] There's Still Local CDROM Problems

2004-08-18 Thread EmadCT
Dear Friends, We have a problem with automount system. We create a symlink to our automount local cd directory as When there's a cd in CDROM and we run > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# cd /cdrom > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ls it shows the contents of CD but When there's no cd in CDROM and we run > [EMA

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] cannot open log file(repeat)

2004-08-18 Thread Jim McQuillan
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 05:02, garry wrote: > On Wednesday 18 Aug 2004 03:13, Jim McQuillan wrote: > > Gary, > > > > I think you've got 2 different, unrelated problems: > > > > 1) The syslogd error is more of a warning. You need to configure > >your syslogd to allow remote clients to send their

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Sugestions for clients?

2004-08-18 Thread Steven G. Spencer
I've had extremely good luck with IdotPC's (https://www.idotpc.com/) Falcon WebStation. I just buy them without HD and do a PXE boot. Thanks, Steve On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 15:52, Christian Collins wrote: > If I were looking for new equipment, I'd go with the HP thin clients at > disklessworksta

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Is my server configured correct?

2004-08-18 Thread Ingo Bruell
Hi Fredric, a view minutes ago i wrote that the docs are not up to date. You have to generate the host keys (ssh-keygen) and store them in $ltsp/etc/ssh/. Have a look at some docs about ssh, please. If you need more help, please ask again. i found the correct docs at: http://www.ltsp.org/ltsp-

[Ltsp-discuss] Is my server configured correct?

2004-08-18 Thread Fredric Larsson
Hi, I have some problems and questions about configure a LTSP server. I have a server where I have installed LTSP-4.1 and I have some thin-clients that I'll boot from the server. I've followed the documentation at www.ltsp.org and I'll get my thin-client to boot and start X-win. (I'm running Xandro

[Ltsp-discuss] ltsp-4.1 local apps doc not up to date

2004-08-18 Thread Ingo Bruell
Hi Jim, i have set up an ltsp server where i need local apps (iSeriesAccess). In you docu you write that i should use rsh but in the script you start only the sshd. Could you please update the docs ? Somewhere i found a correct documentation that explains how to create the host keys and so on. I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] cannot open log file

2004-08-18 Thread Ingo Bruell
Hi, the client tries to send the events to the syslog daemon on the ltsp server. But per default the daemon does not listen to the network. Start the daemon with the '-r' option somewhere in the init.d script of sysklogd. -- best regards Ingo Bruell --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OldenburgPGP-F

[Ltsp-discuss] (no subject)

2004-08-18 Thread Walter
Hi jam. I have a small query. We have a ltsp version 4 setup here. It works fine with diskless nodes booting through pxe. Some machines have a hard disk. So to get the option of booting to ltsp from a hard disk i downloaded the lilo loadable boot rom image for the network card. after that i ran

[Ltsp-discuss] ltsp + rdesktop?

2004-08-18 Thread Maurice Libes
hi to all i have a working ltsp configuration where users log on a linux server... I plan to allow the users to log also on a window system server. with rdesktop as i dont know very well windows environment, what do i need in order to do such a thing? do i really need a Windows2000/2003 server?

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] cannot open log file(repeat)

2004-08-18 Thread Craig Ringer
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 17:02, garry wrote: > Thanks I've sorted it now. I thought I could just copy the LTSP tree from one > server to another and it would work -wrong! You should be able to, assuming you copy it in a way that preserves permissions, symlinks, etc. `cp -aR` should do the trick, as

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: Slow Terminal Boot times

2004-08-18 Thread jam
Hi > I'm experiencing slow boot times. The workstation is a 233Mhz Pentium with > 96Mb of Ram, a 10Mbit Tulip card and an AGP Phantom graphics card (8Mb). > > Here's an example boot run with times in min:sec from power on. > > 0:00 Power on > 0:25 Boot rom loaded > 1:05 Kernel loaded > 1:15 Piv

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] cannot open log file(repeat)

2004-08-18 Thread garry
On Wednesday 18 Aug 2004 03:13, Jim McQuillan wrote: > Gary, > > I think you've got 2 different, unrelated problems: > > 1) The syslogd error is more of a warning. You need to configure >your syslogd to allow remote clients to send their log messages. >There are various ways to do this, de