[Ltsp-discuss] Macintosh clients

2005-08-22 Thread Don Robertson
Hi - have been asled if anyone hase used Macintoshes as client computers. I have looked at the LTSP Archetecture page and see it is possible .., but would like to know if it has been done :-) Cheers, Don -- Don Robertson Systems Administrator Hun Sen Library Royal University of Phnom Penh Kingd

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What is Equivalent in Windows Server of 'DHCP Option 211' in Linux ?? - Fixed - Ignore Previous Post :)

2005-08-22 Thread DK
Hi Jim, sorry for not outlining the details I am a new to Linux & mailing lists I found the answer after reading the Wiki (http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Clients#IBM_N2200) Specifically for MS Windows Server 2003: -- >From command line prompt: cmd.e

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What is Equivalent in Windows Server of 'DHCP Option 211' in Linux ?? - Fixed - Ignore Previous Post :)

2005-08-22 Thread Jim McQuillan
DK, It's great that you were able to work out the problem. How about you share with us how you did it? Also, it would be a great addition to the wiki, so others can benefit from it. Thanks, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, DK wrote: > Fixed > > Please ignore my previous

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What is Equivalent in Windows Server of 'DHCP Option 211' in Linux ?? - Fixed - Ignore Previous Post :)

2005-08-22 Thread DK
Fixed Please ignore my previous post, I worked out the 211 problem :) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --- SF.Net email i

[Ltsp-discuss] What is Equivalent in Windows Server of 'DHCP Option 211' in Linux ??

2005-08-22 Thread DK
Hi all, Does anyone know how to set the Equivalent in 'Windows Server 2003 - DHCP Server' of 'DHCP Option 211 in Linux' (as in Wiki below) ?? From: http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Clients#IBM_N2200 - You dhcp server needs to have op

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Sound on clients FC3 and FC4

2005-08-22 Thread Marc DeTrano
I know what needs done, but not necessarily the most elegant way to do it: You can create a group, called "audio" or something, and make sure the users who need sound are a member of that group. chown .audio /dev/dsp, then chmod g+rw /dev/dsp The problem with this is that it will disappe

[Ltsp-discuss] Sound on clients FC3 and FC4

2005-08-22 Thread Kevin Verheyen
Hello, as i was installing lstp in our school I ran into problems getting sound to work. I got permission denied errors on /dev/dsp, or when i got it to work for one user, all other users could not get any sound on there machine... both on fc3 en fc4 Anyone got a solution? Kevin -

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] XServer error

2005-08-22 Thread Joe Baker
Chuck Stuettgen wrote: I am getting the following error trying to start a client in vmware. Could not init font path element tcp/172.16.92.1:7100, removing from list. server error: could not open default font 'fixed' LTSP is running as a VM on SUSE 9.3 The client is also running as a VM.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client RAM requirements & X crashing (was: New to LTSP)

2005-08-22 Thread Jim McQuillan
Jason, I don't have any solid formula for setting the size of the swapfile. I've found that just going with 64mb of swap has solved any problems that I've encountered. As for "all situations", i'm sure there's a point where you could run out of ram, even with 64mb of ram and 64mb of swap. Jim.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client RAM requirements & X crashing (was: New to LTSP)

2005-08-22 Thread Jason Maas
Hi Jim, On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Jim McQuillan wrote: There's just no getting around the fact that the Xserver is going to consume memory. And for the most part, it's not X's fault, it's the applications. the Xserver allocates memory on the apps behalf, and most apps don't tell the Xserver to rel

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] using lbe to bulild kernels

2005-08-22 Thread Steve Dibb
Jim McQuillan wrote: 3. build the kernel, install all possible NICs inside the kernel 4. Run mkinitrd from the ltsp-initrd tools 5. gunzip the initrd for the new kernel, edit linuxrc to not look for network modules, gzip it back up If you are adding the nic drivers as statically linked, rathe

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] using lbe to bulild kernels

2005-08-22 Thread Jim McQuillan
Steve, A couple of comments below. On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Steve Dibb wrote: > Daniel Fort wrote: > > I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but a new 2.6.12 kernel that I built in > > lbe keeps bailing out on startup with: > > I spent most of this weekend trying to get a custom kernel working with LTSP

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSPon FC3 Mozilla and Flash

2005-08-22 Thread Gideon Romm
Christoph, This is a problem with the flash plugin trying to play a sound and crashing. Follow the instructions here: http://www.thesymbiont.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=144&Itemid=128 Good luck, -Gadi On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 22:20 -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote: > Christoph, > >

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Benchmark Report

2005-08-22 Thread Jordan Rosen
Hi Everybody, We have just published benchmark results of LTSP running a full cadre of desktop apps. We ran the benchmark tests on both an IBM xSeries 335 (Intel) and a Z series mainframe. I think this document will be very useful for planning LTSP deployments. The Z series work was particularl

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] using lbe to bulild kernels

2005-08-22 Thread Steve Dibb
Daniel Fort wrote: I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but a new 2.6.12 kernel that I built in lbe keeps bailing out on startup with: I spent most of this weekend trying to get a custom kernel working with LTSP, and finally got it, but I built it outside of LBE. Here's the basic howto -- someo

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Local drives

2005-08-22 Thread John McCreesh
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 07:37 -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote: > Michael, > > We are indeed working on a much better solution to the whole issue of > local drives, including USB and built-in floppy and cdrom drives. > > If you could take the time to update the LocalMedia wiki page with > information abo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] x terminal working very slow - is it normal?

2005-08-22 Thread Piotr Sobolewski
On Saturday 20 of August 2005 22:01, Jim McQuillan wrote: > > (...) > > My problem is that X terminal works so slowly (opening a simple menu > > lasts up to one second, etc) that it is hard and not nice > > experience to work on it. I tried to find the bottleneck, and > > I found it is X server

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client RAM requirements & X crashing (was: New to LTSP)

2005-08-22 Thread Jim McQuillan
Jason, There's just no getting around the fact that the Xserver is going to consume memory. And for the most part, it's not X's fault, it's the applications. the Xserver allocates memory on the apps behalf, and most apps don't tell the Xserver to release the memory when it is done with it. So,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client RAM requirements & X crashing (was: New to LTSP)

2005-08-22 Thread Jason Maas
Hi all, On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Jason Maas wrote: Does anyone know how to see the kernel log on an LTSP client? I do! (Yes, I realize that I'm replying to myself. I finally got motivated enough to try things.) On our Debian "unstable" LTSP server I just copied the /bin/dmesg binary to /bin

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client RAM requirements & X crashing (was: New to LTSP)

2005-08-22 Thread Jason Maas
Hi James, On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this mostly (all?) describes exactly the problem: firefox uses thin client ram to render the sites images until it fails. I have 300 photos in 'gallery-1.4' for 2005. Every standalone machine can slideshow them, every thin client crashes

[Ltsp-discuss] using lbe to bulild kernels

2005-08-22 Thread Daniel Fort
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but a new 2.6.12 kernel that I built in lbe keeps bailing out on startup with: 'Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.' This is the /tftpboot/lts/2.6.12-ltsp-1/pxelinux.cfg/default: --- prompt 0 label linux

[Ltsp-discuss] nolock NFS mount option doubt

2005-08-22 Thread Eduardo Costa Lisboa
Hi, guys. I was looking at this option and would like to know when, in real world, is it necessary. I took a read on man, and that says: "Disable NFS locking. Do not start lockd. This has to be used with some old NFS servers that don't support locking." But, for some reason, I think that it could

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Local drives

2005-08-22 Thread Jim McQuillan
Michael, We are indeed working on a much better solution to the whole issue of local drives, including USB and built-in floppy and cdrom drives. If you could take the time to update the LocalMedia wiki page with information about your method, or the fact that there are other methods, along with l

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Local drives

2005-08-22 Thread Michael Webb
Can people stop just blindly pointing people to http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LocalMedia in relation to non USB floppy or cdrom local drive access. From my testing and those of others, the method stated and files supplied at this location are not compatible with samba (or is samba and 0

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] floppy on ltsp4

2005-08-22 Thread Harry Sufehmi
On 15/08/2005 at 09:49 Harry Sufehmi wrote: >On 14/08/2005 at 23:33 Fajar Priyanto wrote: >>Hi, >>I've been dealing with this local device setup for a couple of days now >>without success :( >>Workstation boots ok. But, cannot access local floppy/cdrom. > >Ah, I remember now... I experienced simi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local drives]

2005-08-22 Thread big
Look at wiki.ltsp.org there is a god howto http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LocalMedia Jesper > > I implemented ltsp onto 6 computers of which 1 was the thick > client/server for the other 5 but the local drives(Floppy and Cd-rom drive) of these thin clients cannot be used.Only the drives