Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread jam
On Friday 02 June 2006 23:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I hired a fellow to help me when I started this project who had been > successful at installing LTSP (and a LOT of other things!) previously, and > I trust his instincts. He found the SuSE package manager cumbersome, and > the LTSP install d

[Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu LTSP Guide and other Documentation

2006-06-02 Thread Paul VanGundy
Krishna and All, Below is the URL to the ltspguide.pdf tutorial I wrote. The tutorial primarily focuses on installing LTSP onto Ubuntu. On that same page you will see another tutorial I wrote on getting K12LTSP to authenticate against Windows ADS via Winbind for single sign on abilities (If you or

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Krishna Murphy
Paul- I think that's really cool! Would it be possible to get a summary of the process used when setting those up? Or maybe even a file full of what went on the drive(s)? -Krishna On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Paul VanGundy wrote: All, I use Ubuntu as both workstations and servers in our school distr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSPFS - still bunged up!

2006-06-02 Thread Krishna Murphy
I've gone over everything again, and thrown in some extras too - still NG. Question: Should there be a mount on the terminal side when I test the firing of the script and see this mount on the server: ltspfs on /home/krishna/Drives/tmp type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=krishna) On Wed, 31 May 200

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Sound Problems

2006-06-02 Thread Peter Childs
I'm using LTSP-4.2 on some Thin Clients These run much more somthothly than 4.1 ever did and 4.2 is a massive improvement excepte for one or two silly problems. I can't get local apps to work its not that important but when you log in ssh just hangs if you run sshd -d on the client after kil

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] pxe hangs on "Uncompressing Linux..., Ok, booting the kernel."

2006-06-02 Thread Metal Gear
hi, i have the exact same configuration but still getting the same uncompressing... error. snippets of my dhcpd.conf is, host ws244 { hardware ethernet 00:01:03:e3:53:3d; fixed-address 192.168.1.244; filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.6.16.1-ltsp-2";

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Migration to LTSP 4.2: don't read lts.conf

2006-06-02 Thread DenisG
DenisG a écrit : ... > option root-path "192.168.0.13:/opt/ltsp/i386"; > #option root-path "192.168.0.13:/opt/ltsp-4.2/i386"; ... > filename "/tftpboot/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.26-ltsp-3"; > #filename "/tftpboot/lts/vmlinuz-2.6.16.1-ltsp-2"; .

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Migration to LTSP 4.2: don't read lts.conf

2006-06-02 Thread DenisG
Jim McQuillan a écrit : > Denis, > > Is that the entire lts.conf file? > > I'm guessing you have a syntax error in the file, and getltscfg is > crapping out trying to parse it. I just tested with this /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf: ddns-update-stylenone; default-lease-time 21600;

[Ltsp-discuss] nas sound problem

2006-06-02 Thread John McMonagle
Could not get sound working with nas. /usr/X11R6/bin/nasd -aa gives: Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets I copied in nasd from debian sarge and it works now. Running debian sarge with kde. Is there any way to give the user gui volume control? Is nas the best method? Joh

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Dev does not work on second login.

2006-06-02 Thread John McMonagle
Have not heard anything to solve this or diagnose it for that matter? For some strange reason its working better but not all the time. My main suspect is lbuscd on the terminal. I did catch lbuscd hung running at 100% once. If anyone has anything for me to try I'll try it otherwise I'm done fo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp 4.2 fuse and ldap

2006-06-02 Thread David Heinzerling
It appears that in fedora 5 this configuration is here: /etc/udev/rules.d/60-fuse.rules I changed the MODE to 0666, but /dev/fuse still returns to 0660 at reboot--but I can run a script as you suggested. I still have problems with the floppy drive showing up when a user logs in the second time,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Krishna Murphy
Scott- I'm with you, that's a pretty exciting project to be part of; maybe I'll have something to contribute someday. Meanwhile, much as it pains me to say so, LTSPFS is still not working for me. I went through all the check- points in the wiki, no cigar. I'm thinking maybe it's time to rip it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 07:54:34AM -0800, Damien Hull wrote: > Should I stick with CentOS or make the switch to Suse? If there's > another distribution I should be looking at let me know. My vote for Desktops: Debian, or Debian based distros. Having used RPM based distros for years, apt based d

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Shane Farmer
I had good experience using LTSP on SUSE 9.3 and 10, but haven't tried 10.1. I had more trouble with Ubuntu and couldn't get it running right after several tries. I did several test re-install and work fine on the SUSE installs. Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Paul VanGundy
All, I use Ubuntu as both workstations and servers in our school district. I think Ubuntu rocks! We use Ubuntu as a server in many different ways: 1. Web server 2. LTSP (Ubuntu 6.06 with LTSP) 3. DHCP Server 4. Email server All of the above have been very stable and reliable on Ubuntu. On top o

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Krishna Murphy
Hear, Hear! On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Andrew & Gabrielle wrote: But then again, I won't even try to use BSD because they have demons for their mascot, even though I have heard a lot of good things about it, and would otherwise actually like to try it. This is what they say about it, (http://www

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Krishna Murphy
Hey- I'm looking at a situation in W. Africa where I think LTSP might be a good fit for their needs. Ubuntu sounds like a good way to go for desktop stuff - but I've heard concerns about using it as the server. What's the general concensus, if any? -Krishna On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Gudmund Areskou

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Gudmund Areskoug
Hi Peter, Father Peter wrote: > SuSE is definitely nice. It rapidly became my favorite distribution, and > has held that pretty firmly. I do have some concerns, though, that given > enough time, Novell might just mess it up beyond all recognition. So I > question its long-term viability. Do

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Father Peter
I only recently learned that running SuSEConfig is the secret to making that work. It didn't take me long to figure out I could make changes in the config files and then run the YAST module, which would usually pick up the changes, and apply them in YAST, and everything would then work. Just

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Andrew & Gabrielle
But then again, I won't even try to use BSD because they have demons for their mascot, even though I have heard a lot of good things about it, and would otherwise actually like to try it. This is what they say about it, (http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html) "Many people equate the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Migration to LTSP 4.2: don't read lts.conf

2006-06-02 Thread Jim McQuillan
Denis, Is that the entire lts.conf file? I'm guessing you have a syntax error in the file, and getltscfg is crapping out trying to parse it. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] DenisG wrote: > Jim McQuillan a écrit : >> See if the workstation knows its own hostname. Try adding >> >> SC

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Migration to LTSP 4.2: don't read lts.conf

2006-06-02 Thread DenisG
Jim McQuillan a écrit : > See if the workstation knows its own hostname. Try adding > > SCREEN_01 = shell > > to the section for workstation 'ankh'. if that doesn't work, try adding > the screen line to the [Default] section. I can see the right hostname during client boot. The proble

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Gudmund Areskoug
Hi Peter, Father Peter wrote: > However - and please correct me if I am wrong here - really - while an LTSP > server does have all of the characteristics of a normal server, it also > needs to offer all the amenities of a nice workstation. > > Part of why I chose SuSE for our project is because w

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Asmo Koskinen
toman kirjoitti: > Here's another data point: I've installed 4.2 on SuSE 10.0 and 4.1 on > SuSE 9.2 and Ubuntu (Breezy Badger) with no problems on SuSE and only > minor problems on Ubuntu, which were fixed quickly. Yet another point: How good are translations (l10n) for your own language? Fo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Krishna Murphy
Oops - It was SuSE 10.0, not 10.1; I understand there were some problems with that one from the thread, earlier. On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Dave Cotton wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 00:57 -0400, Krishna Murphy wrote: > Dave- > > I hired a fellow to help me when I started this project who had been > su

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread toman
Krishna Murphy wrote: > Dave- > > I hired a fellow to help me when I started this project who had been > successful at installing LTSP (and a LOT of other things!) previously, and > I trust his instincts. He found the SuSE package manager cumbersome, and > the LTSP install didn't work; after a g

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Dave Cotton
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 00:57 -0400, Krishna Murphy wrote: > Dave- > > I hired a fellow to help me when I started this project who had been > successful at installing LTSP (and a LOT of other things!) previously, and > I trust his instincts. He found the SuSE package manager cumbersome, and > the