Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ltpsinfod - security problem?

2005-11-07 Thread Jim McQuillan
John, the 'reboot' functionality of ltspinfod is disabled by default. You'd have to have 'ALLOW_SHUTDOWN = Y' in your lts.conf file to enable the rebooting capability. So, if you want to secure your terminal from being rebooted, then you should just make sure you do NOT have that entry in your f

[Ltsp-discuss] JackPC Thin Client

2005-11-07 Thread mike hjorleifsson
The company that makes these is very reputable i worked with them a few years ago, they know embedded technology and I am sure if someone made the business case to them they could get bootp or an equivalent so their clients would work with ltsp, pxe is probably not an option as pxe is originally

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] WINE Application Needs Client IP Address

2005-11-07 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
Am Freitag, den 04.11.2005, 11:08 -0500 schrieb Tommy Leak: > Thank you so much for your time. I am working on a project to convert > a 200 seat call center from Windows-based agent PCs to LTSP. There is > one application that the managers find critical to be able to run in > order to convert to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] performance connecting a client to server via modem

2005-11-07 Thread Roberto Leiva M. (Lista)
Richard Bos wrote: Op maandag 07 november 2005 20:52, schreef david meltzer: do someone have experience of running clients connecting to the ltsp server via the internet using dsl/cable... i use things like vnc, remote desktop and pca and find the performance greater but these are windows solut

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] performance connecting a client to server via modem

2005-11-07 Thread Richard Bos
Op maandag 07 november 2005 20:52, schreef david meltzer: > do someone have experience of running clients connecting to the ltsp server > via the internet using dsl/cable... i use things like vnc, remote desktop > and pca and find the performance greater but these are windows solutions. > > also, l

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NBP is too big to fit in free base memory

2005-11-07 Thread ankush grover
On 11/4/05, Jim McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ankush,That error indicates that you are trying to load the Etherboot preparedkernel with a PXE bootrom.  You can't do that.  You need PXE to loadpxelinux.0, which will then load the kernel + initrd. Take a look at:http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/

[Ltsp-discuss] WINE Application Needs Client IP Address

2005-11-07 Thread Tommy Leak
Thank you so much for your time.  I am working on a project to convert a 200 seat call center from Windows-based agent PCs to LTSP.  There is one application that the managers find critical to be able to run in order to convert to Linux.  This app is called Virtual Observer.  This is client/ser

[Ltsp-discuss] performance connecting a client to server via modem

2005-11-07 Thread david meltzer
hello and thanks for reading this, so far, i think ltsp is great. i do database work for customers. i was asked if i could find a way so as to not need a server in the client's office. just one master server accessible over the internet. being a windows/dos guy for the last few decades i do not h

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ltpsinfod - security problem?

2005-11-07 Thread John Horne
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 09:25 -0500, Peter Billson wrote: > John, >Make ltspinfo owned and excutable only by root: > chown root.root ltspinfo > chmod 700 ltspinfo > Hello, I'm not sure how that is going to help. If I telnet to an ltsp PC on port 9200 from any other (non-ltsp) PC at our site, an

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ltpsinfod - security problem?

2005-11-07 Thread Peter Billson
John, Make ltspinfo owned and excutable only by root: chown root.root ltspinfo chmod 700 ltspinfo Pete Billson -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting John Horne wrote: Hello, We are using the ltspinfod process to allow our ltsp s

[Ltsp-discuss] Ltpsinfod - security problem?

2005-11-07 Thread John Horne
Hello, We are using the ltspinfod process to allow our ltsp server to reboot clients. Whilst this works, fine my concern is that there seems to be no way (that I can think of) to restrict the shutdown/reboot commands to only come from the server. As far as I can tell another user could possibly in

[Ltsp-discuss] Intermittent CAPS Lock problems

2005-11-07 Thread David Mummery
Hi all - My users login to Citrix from LTSP terminals and occasionally cannot get capital letters using CAPS Lock or Shift key. Does anyone else encounter this problem? I've not found it anywhere on the LTSP mailing lists as an issue. As ever, any advice is welcomed. David Mummery --

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: Ugly fonts in OpenOffice.org on terminals

2005-11-07 Thread Bartosz Miller
2005/11/5, Bartosz Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [...] OpenOffice.org 2 fonts are > rather ugly, both in the menu and in the document one is working on. I'm answering my own e-mail but I hope it may help somebody else. I haven't solved the problem but I know how to avoid it. It you're running on t