[Ltsp-discuss] gnome3 and LTSP

2009-11-12 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, Please point me to the thread if this is an old topic. My question is about Gnome3 I think, as I'm sure most people here also do, that LTSP (and NX) are very powerful tools. Centralized management is important and remote desktops make it easy. The ability to use old or low-powered equipment

[Ltsp-discuss] thin clients on slashdot

2008-10-13 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I thought this might be and interesting read. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/13/0557215from=rss Cheers. Chris. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] pam_mount

2008-04-07 Thread Chris Fanning
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Pascal Legrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello i've got a problem with the module pam_mount when i connect/disconnect on the ltsp server (direct) everything works fine (ldap authentication, mount and umount samba share)and the logs in auth.log are fine

[Ltsp-discuss] ltspfs LTSPFS_XAUTH readline error. help please?

2008-02-19 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I'm trying to use ltspfs with a standalone nxclient On the server: About to run /usr/sbin/lbus_event_handler.sh Authentification failed. At the client: # ltspfsd -a -d Program started Packet length: 12 Packet buffer: 000c0001800040 Packet type: LTSPFS_XAUTH eacces called status_return

[Ltsp-discuss] where to download ltspfs for a nxclient installation?

2008-02-18 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi all, I'm trying to use ltspfs with nxclient (standalone client box). I've been given some kind help on the freenx list to do it. I haven't tried this yet so I may be missing something. I would like to (think I need to) install on the nxclient machine: 1. ltspfsd (deb package so thats easy) +

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-24 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, Thankyou all for your help. I've got this going using etch and casper. Here are my notes. They're in Spanish but Google should do a good job translating. http://gatopelao.org/?Remote_thinclient Cheers. Chris. On Jan 20, 2008 1:57 AM, jam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-01-19 at

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-18 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi all, I've managed to get LTSP to boot (to prompt) from the flash drive although I'm still a long way from getting things going as they should. [snip] Chris, work the curse of the drinking class, so your query is still unanswered. :) I wondering just how practical this idea is. LTSP

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-17 Thread Chris Fanning
is very big. df shows lots of files and directories mounted on a tmpfs. Where would you go from here? Thanks. Chris. On Jan 15, 2008 9:12 AM, Chris Fanning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi James, On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 07:24 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We thought the might be two

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-15 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi James, On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 07:24 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We thought the might be two possibilites. 1) boot the clients over the network (WAN) ? I'll leave others to answer this one - but I doubt it's practical - unless you have huge bandwidth. 2) install just

[Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, We've got some remote offices where staff use freeNX to access their remote desktops. At the moment the installations are a bit of a mixture. Some users have nxclient installed on their PC's, and some users have a LTSP4.2 terminal with the nxclient SCREEN_01= startnx Both work fine but we

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, Thanks for getting back Chris. I've got the freeNX client going on damn small linux. They have the nx client1.5 already prepared and it wasn't difficult. But I can't get fullscreen going with their window manager JWM. Some time ago (thanks to help on this list), I did get NX fullsceen using

[Ltsp-discuss] fd cache inconsistency!

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi all, In my syslog I'm getting lots of these. nfsd[1926]: fd cache inconsistency! last message repeated 31 times Does anyone know what it means? Thanks. Chris. - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] keeping homes in sync.

2007-09-20 Thread Chris Fanning
Chris Fanning wrote: Hello all, This isn't exacly a ltsp question, but here goes (sorry for the off-topic). We are thinking about setup two desktop servers on our national network. Users will connect to the sessions via freeNX. Perhaps loadbalancing with dns. If one server goes

[Ltsp-discuss] keeping homes in sync.

2007-09-17 Thread Chris Fanning
Hello all, This isn't exacly a ltsp question, but here goes (sorry for the off-topic). We are thinking about setup two desktop servers on our national network. Users will connect to the sessions via freeNX. Perhaps loadbalancing with dns. If one server goes down we would like to use the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] keeping homes in sync.

2007-09-17 Thread Chris Fanning
On 9/17/07, Helmut Lichtenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:23:39PM +0200, Chris Fanning wrote: Hello all, This isn't exacly a ltsp question, but here goes (sorry for the off-topic). We are thinking about setup two desktop servers on our national network. Users

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB mouse to fast, X_MOUSE_RESOLUTION ignored

2007-09-17 Thread Chris Fanning
On 9/17/07, Gideon Romm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: set: X_USBMOUSE_DEVICE = /dev/null in your lts.conf. That did the trick! Chris. This is, unfortunately, an old and never corrected bug in 4.2... -Gadi On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 21:31 +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: Hi, i have got an

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] kde 3.5 problem

2007-07-09 Thread Chris Fanning
hi, the .xsession file did something like that to me some time back. Chris. On 7/9/07, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:02:18 +0200 Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is possible that it is not an ltsp problem at all, Can a newly set-up user log in

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] network topology for second building across internet

2007-06-18 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, Just some thoughts. On 6/15/07, John Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 00:56, Lee Portnoff wrote: We have a building with 25 LTSP clients. We will open another location across town. I need to choose to design the network. A few topologies come to mind: (1) to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] debian etch ltsp-5 network

2007-05-20 Thread Chris Fanning
On 5/17/07, Paulo Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, 192.168.1.254 is dns and gateway i´m testing ubuntu 7.04, not work not route!!! route = 192.168.1.254 dns 192.168.1.254 client = 192.168.1.62 server ltsp = 192.168.1.215 workstation windows ( 192.168.1.61 ) ping 192.168.1.62 yes

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] debian etch ltsp-5 network

2007-05-16 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, i'm testing LTSP5 with lenny on a virtual Machine and work fine, without problems. Did you configure forwarding ? I wrote this script : echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -P FORWARD DROP iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ethx -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD -i ethx -j

[Ltsp-discuss] can ltsp5 do localapps?

2007-05-08 Thread Chris Fanning
Hello all, Recently I had a go at setting up local apps on ltsp5. I got the feeling that the localapp plumbing in ltsp5 was missing and, although I did manage to get something going, my attempts to get an app running were in general a failure. Can someone please tell me what's the state of

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local apps with ltsp5

2007-04-24 Thread Chris Fanning
I'd like to have a go at using local apps with ltsp5. Is it still the same procedure to get going as it was with ltsp4? ie. LOCAL_APPS = Y NIS SSH keys etc? Or has all that changed? Hi, Well, I gave it a bash and sorta got it going but definitely not as well set up as it should be

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp5/Muekow thin client login failed

2007-04-23 Thread Chris Fanning
opps. I was missing the xbase-clients package. Sorry about that. Chris. On 4/23/07, Chris Fanning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 3/16/07, Ryan Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list members, I am running ltsp 5 on a debian etch amd64 platform with a single amd64 client just while I

[Ltsp-discuss] local apps with ltsp5

2007-04-23 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I'd like to have a go at using local apps with ltsp5. Is it still the same procedure to get going as it was with ltsp4? ie. LOCAL_APPS = Y NIS SSH keys etc? Or has all that changed? Thanks. Chris. - This SF.net email

[Ltsp-discuss] NX window not at coordinates (0,0) on root window

2007-04-13 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I'm running nxclient on the ltsp4.2u4 server using NX1.5.0-141_LTSP that Gideon has kindly prepared. It works very well. At the moment I have one problem. As Gideon says in the README nxclient cannot be run as the root window. On the second login, the desktop window is offset. ah, how do I

[Ltsp-discuss] Must buy HP thinclients. SOS!

2007-04-12 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I've been told I must buy HP (or Dell) thinclients for a new installation. grrr. Does Dell so thinclients? I quick google doesn't show anything. So, unless HP clients are uncompatible with a gnu desktop, I've no choice. I've been looking at this

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-12 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, Getting back to the xen idea, when copying one updated server image and pasting it on an existing server image, we save these files first (from the destination image) in a tar, then after pasting the new image, we unpack the tar ontop. #!/bin/bash now=`date +'%Y-%m-%d.%H.%M.%S'`

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] New Esound/Pulse for Flash [was: Notes on Flash 9 sound for LTSP]

2007-03-12 Thread Chris Fanning
It's still experimental, but it works for me. You can get the source, RPMS and more information on: http://pulseaudio.revolutionlinux.com/ I'll try to push the source to Macromedia, but I want to have a couple of beta-testers first. Works for me too :) Thanyou. Chris. On 11/21/06,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-07 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, Last year in a summer school we setup two xen installations on two different boxes running instances of the same virtual machines (ltsp servers and app servers). We spread out load with dhcp as mentioned and the homes were mounted on a third box. It worked really well. Keeping the software

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Default desktop environment in LDM LTSP Display Manager

2007-03-02 Thread Chris Fanning
In my case I wanted to force icewm for some users and kde for others. cd /usr/share/xsessions ls custom.desktop failsafe.desktop IceWM.desktop kde.desktop vi kde.desktop [Desktop Entry] Hidden=true if it doesn't exist, create failsafe.desktop [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Failsafe

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Clustering

2007-03-02 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I'm using xen to share load and ease management. This is in Spanish but the diagrams are pretty easy to follow ;) http://terminales.uned-terrassa.es/noticias/terminales-freenx-para-el-pas-de-terrassa Thanks to all the developers. Chris. On 3/2/07, Noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Default desktop environment in LDM LTSP Display Manager

2007-03-01 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, man xsession kdm-greeter looks here /usr/share/xsessions Chris. On 3/1/07, Thomas Herdt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 26. Februar 2007 23:29 schrieb Thomas Herdt: Am Montag, 26. Februar 2007 11:34 schrieb Sudev Barar: On 26/02/07, Thomas Herdt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wen I

[Ltsp-discuss] choosing screen_01 as default desktop

2007-02-26 Thread Chris Fanning
Hello all, I've started using rdesktop for the first time. SCREEN_01 = startx SCREEN_02 = rdesktop I can access both desktops just fine. thankyou. But the windows session is the first screen to be displayed on the terminal. When I boot the terminal, I have to switch to screen_01 to see my

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Diskless Thin Client Terminals

2007-02-14 Thread Chris Fanning
: On Tuesday 13 February 2007 05:08, Chris Fanning wrote: Hi, I am awaiting my sample of EBox2620 and EBox3800 from (the later is 800mhz processor) http://www.compactpc.com.tw/ I just got one of these, plugged it in and everything worked. http://www.compactpc.com.tw/ebox-3800

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Diskless Thin Client Terminals

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I am awaiting my sample of EBox2620 and EBox3800 from (the later is 800mhz processor) http://www.compactpc.com.tw/ I just got one of these, plugged it in and everything worked. http://www.compactpc.com.tw/ebox-3800.htm Chris. On 1/23/07, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] trying to setup a thin-server

2007-02-09 Thread Chris Fanning
Jim has implemented the thin clients in a very elegant fashion, and the whole initramfs is a brilliant concept. I will (soon) post how to do a flash-thin client. Meanwhile this is very usefull http://tigger.ws/wiki/index.php/InitRamFs James Thank you very much for the good help. Chris. On

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] trying to setup a thin-server

2007-02-08 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, 4.2 does not pivot_root! It does switch_root on to a initramfs ... So you must tell us: * what you are trying to achieve * what version of ltsp * maybe why that version I'm already using 4.2u4 on a couple of different installations. My question is not LTSP specific (off-topic). I want

[Ltsp-discuss] trying to setup a thin-server

2007-02-07 Thread Chris Fanning
Hello all, This is a little off-topic. Hope you don't mind. :( I've been using LTSP successfully for some time. Now I would like to setup thin-servers. I think I've compiled a kernel right but I get the beloved error: pivot_root: No such file or directory Watching the traffic, the diskless

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Diskless Thin Client Terminals

2007-01-27 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, another one I don't think has been mentioned http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2196733155.html Chris. On 1/23/07, John Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 22 January 2007 20:47, Tomoki Taniguchi wrote: I need to start testing diskless TC terminals to use with a LTSP server. What

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sda: unknown partition table

2007-01-23 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I've been going through this and no luck. What is meant by Added support for un-partitioned USB Memory sticks to be properly recognized as a local device as stated in the wiki? Should I expect sda: unknown partition table to get mounted? Thanks. Chris. On 1/22/07, Chris Fanning [EMAIL

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sda: unknown partition table

2007-01-23 Thread Chris Fanning
changes and exit! I'm sure there is a way to batch fdisk so you could make a script to clean a thumb drive and reformat it with a single click, but I have never tried this. -Todd Chris Fanning wrote: Hi, I've been going through this and no luck. What is meant by Added support for un

[Ltsp-discuss] sda: unknown partition table

2007-01-22 Thread Chris Fanning
Hello all, I've read that LTSP-4.2 update 3 added support for un-partitioned USB Memory sticks to be properly recognized as a local device. I've just updated and plugged in a usb pendrive that reports from dmesg sda: unknown partition table Now, after upgrading I get the same dmesg message but

[Ltsp-discuss] freenx client on ltsp.

2007-01-19 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I've just install freenx client on ltsp. http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WorkInProgress It's been running on a pentium 350MHz, 32 MB RAM all morning and so far so good. Thank you very much Gideon and all the rest of you. Chris.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Freezed window...

2007-01-16 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, Perhaps you could play around with vga values. This helped me turn green nonsense during boot into readable text 640x480 800x600 1024x7681280x1024 8 bpp 769 771 773 775 16 bpp 785 788 791 794 32 bpp 786 789 792 795 vi

[Ltsp-discuss] pc gore.

2006-12-28 Thread Chris Fanning
Hello all, a good reason to use LTSP indeed. http://badvista.fsf.org/vistas/060629computerDump800x600.jpg/view Chris. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get

[Ltsp-discuss] local dev from within a jail

2006-12-18 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi all, Local devices work well. Thankyou. However, in a classroom environment, I would like to give the students access to a bash shell via a chroot jail. I am using the debian testing package dchroot to do this. Within the jail I have installed a base system like. debootstrap --arch i386 etch

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTS on one server, XDM on another. What about LDA?

2006-11-12 Thread Chris Fanning
/11/06, Chris Fanning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If you want to know the internals, may I recommend the article there : http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9097 Thanks for sharing that. Last summer we tried fail-over and load balancing with dhcp3. It wasn't difficult to setup and worked

[Ltsp-discuss] LTS on one server, XDM on another. What about LDA?

2006-11-05 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi all, I would like to run LTS on one server and the desktop and apps on another server. I get the feeling this shouldn't be a big deal. LTS gets X running on the terminal and after that the terminal logs onto the XDM running on the desktop/application server. right so far? What about local

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTS on one server, XDM on another. What about LDA?

2006-11-05 Thread Chris Fanning
Thanks Lars, I'll be trying that out soon. :) Chris. On 11/5/06, Lars Madsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Fanning : Hi all, I would like to run LTS on one server and the desktop and apps on another server. I get the feeling this shouldn't be a big deal. LTS gets X running

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rdp: window inside a window

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Fanning
. I'm sure that was a post on this list about an applications you could install on the windows server to acheive this (but I can't find it). All winApps get called via this program. Some sort of application wrapper. Does this ring a bell? Thanks. Chris. On 10/20/06, Chris Fanning [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rdp: window inside a window

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Fanning
. That annoying double window border/decoration dissapears! Cheers. Chris. On 10/26/06, Chris Fanning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've tried out the options with rdesktop and think that I haven't explained myself correctly. I'm not talking about hiding the linux window decorations. I want to hide

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rdp: window inside a window

2006-10-20 Thread Chris Fanning
Op 19-okt-06, om 17:28 heeft Chris Fanning het volgende geschreven: Hi all, I read on the list sometime ago of a way to call remote apps on a windows terminal server without having to open the whole desktop. I think that post even said that the app stripped the window's window so you

[Ltsp-discuss] rdp: window inside a window

2006-10-19 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi all, I read on the list sometime ago of a way to call remote apps on a windows terminal server without having to open the whole desktop. I think that post even said that the app stripped the window's window so you didn't get that 'window inside a window' scenario. Does anybody recall that? or

[Ltsp-discuss] copy/paste between LinuxTS and WindowsTS

2006-10-19 Thread Chris Fanning
Hello all, I would like to setup RDP access to a Windows Terminal Server so the users can run the occasional win32 application (grrr). How do the linux terminal users move files between their linux session and their windows session? Until now I've done this by sharing a folder from the windows

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Localdev codepage

2006-10-19 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi Michael, Here is some work done with fuse and iocharset http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=10273722forum_id=42692 Chris. On 10/19/06, Scott Balneaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:22:50PM +0800, Michael Metsger wrote: Hello. I use LTSP-4.2.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] One account, many users

2006-10-05 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, You can prepare a user's desktop/profile just the way you want. Then wrap it up in a tarball. Now, if all users of that same profile were to have the same gid, you could unpack the same tar onto ther home directories when they log on on the group id basis..

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SSH X-forwarding to client

2006-09-27 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi Philippe, The wiki is a good place to look about. http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LocalApps Chris. On 9/27/06, Philippe ENTZMANN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see a lot of messages about how to SSH to a terminal. I can successfully log into terminals via SSH. I need to run

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SSH X-forwarding to client

2006-09-27 Thread Chris Fanning
ssh $LTSP_HOSTNAME TMPDIR=~/.tmp DISPLAY=$DISPLAY /{path to firefox}/firefox echo $DISPLAY will tell you the display you are sitting at. $LTSP_HOSTNAME sounds like the name or ip of your LTSP server. I once setup firefox as a local app with 4.1 and have recently failed to do so with 4.2 Soon I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SSH X-forwarding to client

2006-09-27 Thread Chris Fanning
Thanks for the correction David. On 9/27/06, G. David Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philippe ENTZMANN wrote: Thanks Chris, I read it again and still not understand. I know this issue is not related to LTSP but related to me ;-) The wiki about Firefox local app shows this SSH command

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] /dev/dsp: Device or recource busy

2006-09-27 Thread Chris Fanning
loaded everytime and sound works. Why is /bin/esdplay /etc/silent.wav included in rc.sound? Thanks. Chris. On 9/26/06, Chris Fanning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have some trouble getting sound after upgradeing to 4.2 When the terminal boots I get - accepting connections on port

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] keyboard Option AutoRepeat

2006-09-26 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, the kernel params: apm=off acpi=off or some such. Thank very much. acpi=off seems to have done the trick. I've put one out with a user for real world testing and so far it seems just fine. Cheers. Chris. On 7/24/06, Gideon Romm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know much about this

[Ltsp-discuss] download 4.2u4

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi all, I see there's a LTSP-4.2 update 4 I have 4.2u2 installed. I'd like to upgrade. That means I need the newest ltsp-utils package, then run 'ltspadmin' and choose the updated packages you wish to install. right? But, where do I download it from? I just can't seem to find it. :( Thanks.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] keyboard Option AutoRepeat

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I have tried a usb keyboard instead of ps/2 It didn't help :( Thought you might like to know. Thanks. Chris. On 7/10/06, Chris Fanning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I upgraded the BIOS on a HP Vectra VEi7 but still no luck. Iv'e been right through the BIOS (that has suprisingly few

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] VMWARE as a test client server....

2006-07-17 Thread Chris Fanning
in an envelope. Chris. -Krishna On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Chris Fanning wrote: Hi Krishna, Is there a big disadvantage to running the SERVER in a vmware environment? It might be good to have a pre-packaged setup in v-machine that could be downloaded and used for initial testing, prior

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] VMWARE as a test client server....

2006-07-16 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi Krishna, Is there a big disadvantage to running the SERVER in a vmware environment? It might be good to have a pre-packaged setup in v-machine that could be downloaded and used for initial testing, prior to actual deployment. I've been doing exactly this with Xen. Xen is Open Source

[Ltsp-discuss] localapp firefox-bin: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3.4'

2006-07-13 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I'm running into some problems installing firefox as a localApp. I copied cp -R /usr/lib/firefox /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/lib and http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LocalAppFirefox#Installing_the_Support_Libraries and ran ssh ws055 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox --display ${DISPLAY} then

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 4.2 update 2 Local devices: extra desktop icons

2006-07-12 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi Jason, On a somewhat related note, would it be possible to change the LTSP code so that the desktop icons can specify different filenames for the icons for the 3 types of local devices: floppies, CDs and USB mass storage devices? If so, is that a hard change to make? I did this to

[Ltsp-discuss] localapp: can't mount /home on terminal

2006-07-12 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I'm trying to get local apps running. I'm stuck on with /home 192.168.178.0/255.255.255.0(rw,root_squash,async) When I test this on the terminal console mount 192.168.178.1:/home /home I get failed, reason given by server: Permision denied mount: nfsmount failed: Bad file descriptor mount:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] localapp: can't mount /home on terminal

2006-07-12 Thread Chris Fanning
, bookmarks... right? How should I go about this? Cheers. Chris. On 7/12/06, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Fanning wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get local apps running. I'm stuck on with /home 192.168.178.0/255.255.255.0(rw,root_squash,async) When I test

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] keyboard Option AutoRepeat

2006-07-10 Thread Chris Fanning
in the future. If I can be of any help testing, just let me know. Cheers. Chris. On 7/6/06, Gentgeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 11:48:20 +0200 Chris Fanning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, After upgrading to 4.2, one mode of PC has keyboard auto repeat troubles. I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] keyboard Option AutoRepeat

2006-07-06 Thread Chris Fanning
or 6 characters per key stroke. What could be cuasing this? Other terminals respond 100% of the time to the adjustments I can make with Option AutoRepeat Any suggestions are very welcome. Chris. On 7/5/06, Chris Fanning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, After upgrading to 4.2, one mode

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] keyboard Option AutoRepeat

2006-07-06 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I've heard about a couple of people having this problem, and in each case, they were able to solve the problem by going into the bios setup screen, and choosing 'Legacy USB' or something similar. I haven't got an option like that. I've gone through the BIOS touching almost everything

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] no second ltspfs mount

2006-06-30 Thread Chris Fanning
add of none Jun 30 12:05:50 ws055.ltsp lbuscd: new_block_device: Invalid number of args Jun 30 12:05:50 ws055.ltsp lbuscd: Expecting: 'AddBlockDevice|sharename|blockdev|Removeable|size|desc' This doesn't seem to be right, does it? Any ideas please? Cheers. Chris. On 5/4/06, Chris Fanning [EMAIL

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Xen

2006-06-27 Thread Chris Fanning
Hello all, I've been using ltsp as a xen image. I've now got 3 production images working. This does seem to be a way to do some sort of mass deployment of ltsp servers. I have also successfully updated one of the xen servers with a new ltsp image during a lunch break. And you can always use the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how mount ltspfs with other charset like cp1251 or koi8-r

2006-06-16 Thread Chris Fanning
I do notice, however, that apart from the tut-tuting you've given, you hey Scott, I didn't mean to sound out of place. All free software developers have my greatest respect. didn't, in spite of my request, point me to any resource that might educate me as to what I'd need to change, or how to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how mount ltspfs with other charset like cp1251 or koi8-r

2006-06-15 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi all, No. I've done nothing with character sets because: 1) I don't know anything about them 2) I have no idea if they're needed. In the name of admins, programmers and users who don't live in an English speaking country, I would like to remind everyone else how problematic this can be.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] black background, icons disappear

2006-06-01 Thread Chris Fanning
Perhaps it isn't a LTSP issue. I think that if you've got (even some) of your desktop on the terminal, that means the xserver is working. If you get the same problem when logging on at your server, then it's more likely to be a kde issue. my two cents. Chris. On 6/1/06, Stefán István [EMAIL

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] no second ltspfs mount

2006-05-04 Thread Chris Fanning
at 01:39:55PM +0200, Chris Fanning wrote: Hi Scott, I hope I'm not bashing you too much on this. Here is something else I've noticed that may help narrow things down. On a second login at the terminal (kde), the floppy doesn't get mounted (no icon either) but this doesn't alwasys happen

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] no second ltspfs mount

2006-05-03 Thread Chris Fanning
a bit more info mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/drives/test VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda1 and mount /dev/sda1 on /tmp/drives/test type vfat (rw, .. killing lbuscd and starting it again /sbin/lbuscd doesn't help. Chris. On 5/2/06, Chris Fanning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Step 4

[Ltsp-discuss] no second ltspfs mount

2006-05-02 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi List, I'm trying out ltsp4.2. Thankyou very much to you all. When I plug in my usb drive, I get the icon on the Desktop and it gets mounted on Drives/usb. When I unplug the drive, the icon disappears and gets unmounted. When I plug it in again nothing happens although on the terminal dmesg

[Ltsp-discuss] UK schools need LTSP

2006-05-01 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi all, Thought this might be interesting. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4960586.stm Sorry if this is abusing the list. Cheers. Chris. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff

[Ltsp-discuss] matrox 790-01 rev A and ltsp-4.2 woes

2006-04-27 Thread Chris Fanning
Hello list, I'm trying ltsp-4.2 and have run into some difficulty with a matrox 790-01 rev A card. I've got about 50 Vectra VE PII pc's with this graphics card. When I use them with ltsp-4.1, one out of ever 10 boots fails with a solid green screen slowly scrolling upwards. Now with ltsp-4.2, I

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: matrox 790-01 rev A and ltsp-4.2 woes

2006-04-27 Thread Chris Fanning
opps. I was exporting /opt/ltsp-4.1 and that didn't help :( So now I can get a shell and X too (Despite these green horizontal lines that appear as the terminal is booting). Any pointers are welcome although I can live with it. Chris. On 4/27/06, Chris Fanning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how to backup /home ?

2006-04-06 Thread Chris Fanning
PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Fanning kirjoitti: backups. Any suggesting or clues please. Chris. I have used this for some years and I'm quite pleased with it: Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ Esko

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] gray screen

2006-03-28 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I've seen this come up a couple of times on the list. It happened to me too recently. I'd been happily using LISTEN * for some time but now (on debian testing at least) I must say LISTEN 192.168.1.1 (the server's ip) maybe that's your case too. Chris On 3/28/06, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rdesktop black square cursor and xserver config

2006-03-27 Thread Chris Fanning
: X_DEVICE_OPTION_01= SWCursor in your lts.conf -Gideon On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 10:46 +0100, Chris Fanning wrote: Hi all, I'd like to use rdesktop on a ltsp terminal. I have had this working on previous instalations, but this time round I get a little black square instead of a cursor

[Ltsp-discuss] rdesktop black square cursor and xserver config

2006-03-24 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi all, I'd like to use rdesktop on a ltsp terminal. I have had this working on previous instalations, but this time round I get a little black square instead of a cursor in the remote desktop window. I've found this http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5798805forum_id=7605

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] cluster?

2006-03-22 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, There is a knoppix distribution that does this automatically. Chris. On 3/20/06, Dr. Sichendra Bista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. I want to know about a LTSP clustering for load balance. I have a few PII 400Mhz and one of them has 1GB of RAM. I would love to make the one with

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: nfs on tcp

2006-03-22 Thread Chris Fanning
, Is it possible to verify, i mean are there any commands to know that NFS is already running over TCP? Thanks! Thanks! Chris Fanning wrote: Hi Joey, Is it possible to check that you are now running NFS over TCP? yes, it works fine. Chris. On 3/22/06, Joey S. Eisma

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: nfs on tcp

2006-03-21 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi Joey, Is it possible to check that you are now running NFS over TCP? yes, it works fine. Chris. On 3/22/06, Joey S. Eisma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Is it possible to check that you are now running NFS over TCP? Thanks! Chris Fanning wrote: I should really read before I ask

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nfs on tcp

2006-03-21 Thread Chris Fanning
(nolock,ro,wsize,rsize) or NOT send a MOPTS option at all. As for doing the nfs swap over tcp, i've never tried it, but it might be possible. You'd have to modify the rc.sysinit script to add the options to the mount command. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Fanning wrote

[Ltsp-discuss] nfs on tcp

2006-03-20 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi all, I'd like to mount the terminal root filesystem using tcp (instead of udp). I've tried editing /tftpboot/lts/2.4.26-ltsp-3/pxelinux.cfg/default to add proto=tcp but that doesn't seem to work. How is this done? I'd also like to mount the nfs-swaps via tcp too. Has anyone done that?

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: nfs on tcp

2006-03-20 Thread Chris Fanning
:) Chris. On 3/20/06, Chris Fanning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'd like to mount the terminal root filesystem using tcp (instead of udp). I've tried editing /tftpboot/lts/2.4.26-ltsp-3/pxelinux.cfg/default to add proto=tcp but that doesn't seem to work. How is this done? I'd also like

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Video player with ESD support for ltsp ?

2006-03-10 Thread Chris Fanning
I also am using mplayer embedded in firefox on 7 library terminals. I've seen three or four of them running mplayer simultaneously. There is some audio lag but it is acceptable. The server is a fast-pentium-don't-know-what with 1GB ram. A gigabit ethernet link to a switch and 100mbs to the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Video player with ESD support for ltsp ?

2006-03-08 Thread Chris Fanning
testing to hardware alone. -Gadi On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 17:55 +0100, Andrew wrote: Chris Fanning wrote: mplayer supports esd, but I haven't yet got it to work decently on a thin client. I have audio/video syncing problems. same here, although I have noticed that the faster

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Video player with ESD support for ltsp ?

2006-03-07 Thread Chris Fanning
mplayer supports esd, but I haven't yet got it to work decently on a thin client. I have audio/video syncing problems. same here, although I have noticed that the faster the thin client cpu and ram, the better the syncing gets. On 3/6/06, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Ltsp-discuss] trouble loading NLS charsets modules on the terminal

2006-02-28 Thread Chris Fanning
Hello, I'm having trouble with NLS charsets. I would like to load nls_iso8859-15 and nls_cp850 on the terminal. But I don't know how to. LTSP loads nls_iso8859-1 and nls_cp437 in the pas I have deleted nls_iso8859-15 and nls_cp850 from thye LTSP instalation and ln -s nls_iso8859-1 nls_iso8859-15

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] help this newbie, regarding thin client ip

2006-02-17 Thread Chris Fanning
Hello, so in this case i am badly in need of ip address assingned to the client even after logging to the server. Access lists, permisions and applications that are based on client ip's, are much more limited because you've got a whole group of users on the same ip (the ltsp server's ip) Look

[Ltsp-discuss] LOCAL_DEVICE_ and LTSPFS on KDE

2006-02-16 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi all, I think I've installed ltspfs correctly. I then downloaded http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/pub/Ltsp/LocalMedia/LDA-mount-ltpfs.sh and call it from /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession when I login /mnt/localdev/ws012.ltsp/ is created on the server and #df shows ltspfs 100390 913 9%

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LOCAL_DEVICE_ and LTSPFS on KDE

2006-02-16 Thread Chris Fanning
can wait for ide. Cheers. Chris. On 2/16/06, Scott Balneaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:43:23PM +0100, Chris Fanning wrote: LOCAL_DEVICE_01 = /dev/fd0:disquetera LOCAL_DEVICE_02 = /dev/hdc:cdrom LOCAL_DEVICE_03 = /dev/sda1:usb

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