I recently found a Compaq XP1000 Professional Workstation (It's a 500mhz Alpha Processor, with 1gb ram) collecting dust on the retired hardware shelf. As I have 20 Linux machines deployed, I figured the Alpha would make an ideal management station. It took a bit longer than I expected, Alphas are...different, but Debian 3.0 is up and running on the thing.
The 20 Linux machines that I do have right now run a rather locked down enviorment. GDM performs an autologon to a locla user accound and runs the .xsession. Mozilla comes up full screen and that's all that can be accessed. If Mozilla exits, the X server resets and the process repeats. To make a long story short, I'm out of hardware and I still have two or three Win95 machines to replace. Now that I have the Alpha machine I figured that I could get use the P90s that are running Win95 right now as Linux Thin clients. The trick is I would want thin client machines to be as close to the other 20 linux machines as possible. GDM autologon, mozilla full screen, etc. The problem I see is the mozilla lock file. As the thin clients would be sharing the same home directory, the first mozilla would fire up no problem but the others would not. Has anyone addressed a similar problem before? Can ~/.mozilla be set to read only, or is there a way to map each thin client to a different NFS mount? Or maybe something else? Looking forward to your input. Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://www.ringworld.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
