[Ltsp-discuss] Thin Client Problems

2004-11-16 Thread Peter Childs
I'm having one or two problems with my Ltsp setting up. And I'm hoping somone can help me. I have 32 ST320 Thin Clients I'm still not using them all yet, 1 blew up and I have 14 sitting on a shelf waiting for the rest of my new system to work. I've been told they are the same as

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin Client Problems

2004-11-16 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 09:16 schrieb Peter Childs: The problem is they freeze, not very often but they freeze. Its irratic and and irregular, which does not exactly help. I think its X but I'm not sure it might be NFS or even the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin Client Problems

2004-11-16 Thread Adrian Snyman
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 10:16, Peter Childs wrote: I'm having one or two problems with my Ltsp setting up. And I'm hoping somone can help me. I have 32 ST320 Thin Clients I'm still not using them all yet, 1 blew up and I have 14 sitting on a shelf waiting for the rest of my

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin Client Problems

2004-11-16 Thread Peter Childs
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Adrian Snyman wrote: Have you thought about maybe booting the Client into runlevel 3 ?? I dunno, maybe there could be something else, and by running it without X, you may see something else... I have tried this. Thin clients are happy for hours like that.

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: VNC

2004-11-16 Thread Marvin T. Pascual
Tom Griffing [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Marvin; VNC will present a heavier load on the server than LTSP. It is more memory intensive since it processes both the X server and client, then sends the resulting session image to a remote VNC viewer. In addition, running both server and client

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Packages

2004-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
[apologies for cross-posting, but the subject is a cross-over itself] I'm trying to configure my big debian workstation as a LTSP server for my other computers. There is a non-debian set of deb packages for the basic LTSP stuff, but nothing for the modules necessary for Sound, Wireless. These

[Ltsp-discuss] different path as local app

2004-11-16 Thread Risto Pekkala
Trying to get som local apps running. Started of with Tuxpaint. Works well on server, bout not on client. An strace on the server and on one client tells me that Tuxpaint is trying to open libSDL-1.2.so.0, but from different paths. Any ideas? On server: /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 On client:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Packages

2004-11-16 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 13:39 schrieb Tom Allison: [apologies for cross-posting, but the subject is a cross-over itself] I'm trying to configure my big debian workstation as a LTSP server for my other computers. There is a non-debian set

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] wireless

2004-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
Jim McQuillan wrote: # Wireless configuration - I know it's possible, but I couldn't find any docs on it. This is the one that worries me the most. From what I understand, it's not going to be a standard part of the LTSP installation, but a considerable customization. Fortunately I am planning

[Ltsp-discuss] DHCP and LTSP

2004-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
I have run into a little problem with the DHCP configuration for IPCOP (version 3) Out of convenience and simplicity I am currently using ipcop's installation of DHCP to manage the few dynamic addresses on my network. I typically have Static IP's because the handful of computers I have on

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCP and LTSP

2004-11-16 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 14:04 schrieb Tom Allison: I have run into a little problem with the DHCP configuration for IPCOP (version 3) Out of convenience and simplicity I am currently using ipcop's installation of DHCP to manage the few

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Packages

2004-11-16 Thread Jim McQuillan
Tom, First thing to consider is the fact that the .deb packages for LTSP are quite old. Ragnar Wisloff is working on updated packages for debian, but he's not ready to release them just yet. I suggest you go to http://www.ltsp.org/ltsp-4.1.html and follow those instructions. Jim McQuillan

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] different path as local app

2004-11-16 Thread Jim McQuillan
Risto, Yes, you need to run the following: ldconfig -r /opt/ltsp/i386 Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Risto Pekkala wrote: Trying to get som local apps running. Started of with Tuxpaint. Works well on server, bout not on client. An strace on the server and on

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCP and LTSP

2004-11-16 Thread Jim McQuillan
Tom, Seems like a great question for the ipcop folks. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Tom Allison wrote: I have run into a little problem with the DHCP configuration for IPCOP (version 3) Out of convenience and simplicity I am currently using ipcop's installation of

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCP and LTSP

2004-11-16 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 14:14 schrieb Anselm Martin Hoffmeister: Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 14:04 schrieb Tom Allison: Otherwise I think I'm left with a strategy of: Configure it manually Make a back up on the ipcop box. Don't mess

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problem with login screen reseting / Selecting the NIC for LTSP to use

2004-11-16 Thread Ravichandra Moka
Hello, option option-128 seem to require a special value which etherboot requires. Based on http://www.ltsp.org/instructions-3.0.html, option-128 is not refering to network card's MAC address. Then what it is refering to? How can I able to find a special value for the network card I got.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin Client Problems

2004-11-16 Thread Peter Childs
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 09:16 schrieb Peter Childs: The problem is they freeze, not very often but they freeze. Its irratic and and irregular, which does not exactly help. I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problem with login screen reseting / Selecting the NIC for LTSP to use

2004-11-16 Thread Robin Bonin
I'm pretty sure that number is a constant. It doesn't matter what card you are using. On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:17:01 -0600, Ravichandra Moka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, option option-128 seem to require a special value which etherboot requires. Based on

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problem with login screen reseting / Selecting the NIC for LTSP to use

2004-11-16 Thread Jim McQuillan
Ravi, Read the document again. It makes it clear what the value should be. it is ALWAYS the same value. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Ravichandra Moka wrote: Hello, option option-128 seem to require a special value which etherboot requires. Based on

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCP and LTSP

2004-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: And I forgot an important part: Both DHCP servers should be not authoritative; - well at least the LTSP one should be or you will run into trouble. I think I get it. Kind of round robin the servers. I was checking some notes on the configuration of my ipcop

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] etherboot using PXE to download other etherboot -- what PXE options?

2004-11-16 Thread Peter
Timothy Legge wrote: I can tell you are having problems but I ca't really tell what they are. Please explain clearly what is happening and instead of the tcpdump you sent, try: tcpdump -s1520 -w /tmp/dmp Send the dmp file to me with an explanation of the problems and I will see if I can help. Tim

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Packages

2004-11-16 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 14:19 schrieb Jim McQuillan: Tom, First thing to consider is the fact that the .deb packages for LTSP are quite old. Ragnar Wisloff is working on updated packages for debian, but he's not ready to release them just yet. I suggest you go to

[Ltsp-discuss] RV: Error compiling LBE

2004-11-16 Thread Atenea
Hi I can't compile lbe. With the build_all script i get errors in bison, function mktmp dangerous, in file.o I work on Debian testing. Thank´s Oscar --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Packages

2004-11-16 Thread Ragnar Wisløff
tirsdag 16 november 2004, 20:27, skrev Georg Baum: Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 14:19 schrieb Jim McQuillan: Tom, First thing to consider is the fact that the .deb packages for LTSP are quite old. Ragnar Wisloff is working on updated packages for debian, but he's not ready to release

[Ltsp-discuss] Error compiling LBE

2004-11-16 Thread Atenea
Hi I can't compile lbe. With the build_all script i get errors in bison, function mktmp dangerous, in file.o I work on Debian testing. Thank´s Oscar --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A

[Ltsp-discuss] Getting GnomeMeeting to work by mounting the servers directories

2004-11-16 Thread CPH
Hi all, I've been looking at GnomeMeeting hoping to get it to work. However it seems to need to be run locally on the LTSP client as it needs to open the video and audio devices directly ! However as with many Gnome based apps the dependencies are horendous! So as I a not sure that this app

[Ltsp-discuss] Sharing USB devices on a LTSP client using linux 2.6

2004-11-16 Thread CPH
I have been trying to share the files on a local USB device on the client so that thru LTSP on the server they would be available. The performance and reliability using linux 2.4 does not seem to be great (SMB frequently seems to hand or not respond very well, using lufs+sshfs gives me chunks

[Ltsp-discuss] USB and localdev (was: Sharing USB devices on a LTSP client using linux 2.6)

2004-11-16 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
This isn't all that relevant to your question (that's why I changed the title...) Has anyone else witnessed such problems ? (so that it may indicate problems with my configuration) Are you manually mounting the USB device and starting samba on the client, or are you using localdev (ie

[Ltsp-discuss] fedora core 3 ltsp

2004-11-16 Thread marek cervenka
hi, i have ltsp server with this spec CPU pentium 4 1.6Ghz 1 GB ram Hw raid 1 (adaptec 2100S - i2o driver from i2o.shadowconnect.com) fedora core 3 (2.6.9 kernel) ltsp 4.1 8 workstations - KDE - 100 Mbps when all workstations run firefox+flash(cisco.netacad.net), server have load 7-9 and become

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NFS export taking long time during server boot

2004-11-16 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:10:42AM +0100, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: On some server boots (perhaps 25%), the NFS exports phase (nfs-kernel-server) use a very long time (a minute or so), while the rest of the time it is just takes a second. The same can happen when restarting NFS manually. If

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: Thin Client Problems

2004-11-16 Thread jam
Hi Peter So I thought I would get lbe up and running to get the the bottom of the problem and also to try and take some load off the server... Also people don't like the textual boot procedure so I thought I might be able to customize my kernel. However I downloaded the lbe and it will

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NFS export taking long time during server boot

2004-11-16 Thread Peter Billson
Dag, I have experienced the same issues on Debian Woody. To add to the hmmm factor, I have found that if *any* NIC is not connected to something, the boot will hang for a very long time. Since connecting all the interfaces to *anything* (i.e. on some demos I have plugged all the

[Ltsp-discuss] installation question

2004-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
OK, I downloaded the 4.1 and decided to start plugging away for a bit. Minor bug: I do not have a center key to press on the first screen shot Question: for a graphical client, what are the minimum packages: ltsp_core ltsp_x_core What about ltsp_kernel? I couldnt' find anything that says what the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Students w/o Internet permission

2004-11-16 Thread Eilert
Hi Craig, just thank's a lot for that idea: Craig Ringer schrieb: On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 20:27, Jaime wrote: I work in a publish school in the US and am considering LTSP for our younger students. The problem is, a significant number of them have paperwork from their parents that forbid them