Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What is the best way to load balance ltsp servers?

2002-08-22 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
s one solution). Fathi Ben nasr Randall Craig a écrit : > Probably the easiest way is to you xdm indirect broadcasts. > > ie: x -indirect foo > > This allows for the user to choose which server to log into. With > my setup (SusE) the xdm servers state what the load on the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Usage of LTSP with Linux for IBM zSeries

2002-06-25 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
On a previous discussion, someone pointed me that using a zseries server as an ltsp server is not interresting as these machines are fast for computaionnal problems and bad as X servers. John McCreesh a écrit : > On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:17:14 +0200 > "Martin Dvorsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] "ATI Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF" problem

2002-05-23 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
orted nfs directory of your ltsp server. I think that the ltsp server doesn't need even to know that your video brand/model exists. Hope this helps. Fathi Ben Nasr > > > thank you very much. > > -- > Zied Fakhfakh > OpenNet SoftwareDirecteur Technico-C

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 500 head LTSP rollout - HELP!

2002-04-24 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
's interface is it's responsiveness on slow computers. > Did you monitor cpu usage? I think the X server still gets away with most of > the cpu time. Moreover this should have been improved greatly with kde 3.0. I have an heterogenous set of computers starting from compaq 486/22 with

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 500 head LTSP rollout - HELP!

2002-04-22 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
slowed down by the KDE2 interface, I switched to ICEwm (a lot faster and does not make any difference as people use the window manager to load apps with mouse clicks and not to work with it). Hope this helps you. Fathi Ben Nasr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] xserver does not start?

2002-03-07 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
Check if you have installed the XFree86-xfs package (rpm -q XFree86-xfs) and if so make sure if you have in your /etc/X11/fs/config a line like the following "alternate-servers = yourserver:7100". This will set your xfs to listen to tcp/ip clients. morten a écrit : > I have installed LTS that i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] hardware demands for Server when having 160 client computers?

2002-03-06 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
You could use servers with 2xpIII or 2Xathlons with 512 to 1024 Megs RAM as this are entry level servers in some countries. For the question of one or more servers, it could be more interresting to use clusters instead of one big server for availability and load balancing. I would use 4 2x686 ser

[Ltsp-discuss] Where to find the sgml documentation

2002-03-04 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
I am trying to get the ltsp iso image, as I couldn't find the sgml documentation package, unsuccessfully for some days now (in part due to our corporate msproxy failures). Could someone send me this package or at least a link to it ? Thank You. Fathi Ben

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless Networking?

2002-03-04 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Darryl, > > I use the Lucent/Orinoco Silver cards which can now > be found for about $79.00 each. They are very > well supported under Linux. The silver offers 64-bit > encryption and the Gold cards offer 128-bit encryption. > > For an Access point, I've got a Li

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Minimal HW requirements

2002-02-21 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
The compaqs are 486/22 not 486/26. Sorry. Fathi Ben Nasr a écrit : > Yes, but it depends on the 486 ( a 26Mhz cpu or a 100Mhz). I have been > able to run a hp 486/66 as a terminal, a compaq 486/26 with 12 Mb ram but > not an identical compaq 486/26 with 4Mb, so I think taht 8Mb is the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Minimal HW requirements

2002-02-21 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
Yes, but it depends on the 486 ( a 26Mhz cpu or a 100Mhz). I have been able to run a hp 486/66 as a terminal, a compaq 486/26 with 12 Mb ram but not an identical compaq 486/26 with 4Mb, so I think taht 8Mb is the minimum requirement. Just remember that 486 were shiped with 1Mb of video ram and th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Stability Problems

2002-02-18 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
Had nearly identical problems (desktop icons disappearing randomly) with kde under mandrake 8.1, pII 350 mhz with 384Mo ram, no scsi disks but also no nfs swap, so I switched to gnome and problems has gone (you still be able to run kapps even under gnome, so this couldn't be a problem unless users

[Ltsp-discuss] Syntax for passing option-129 to a terminal

2002-01-22 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
etherboot flopyy is 3c5x9 at 0x0300. I tried different ways to feed this information to the client but I still get a Kernel panic and an error message about the isa nic driver. Could someone please tell me the correct syntax for option-129 (with some examples if possible) ? Thank You. Fathi Ben Nasr

[Ltsp-discuss] Syntax for passing option-129 to a terminal

2002-01-19 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
etherboot flopyy is 3c5x9 at 0x0300. I tried different ways to feed this information to the client but I still get a Kernel panic and an error message about the isa nic driver. Could someone please tell me the correct syntax for option-129 (with some examples if possible) ? Thank You. Fathi Ben Nasr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem with ltsp 3.0

2001-12-19 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
.4.9-ltsp-lpp-5 > > > - Original Message - > From: "Fathi Ben Nasr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 5:23 PM > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem with ltsp 3.0 > > > Jo

[Ltsp-discuss] Setting up the reply address in this mailing list

2001-12-19 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
Hello, Is it possible to setup the reply address for messages sent to this list to its address so that the reply command will send replies back to the list and not to the original sender only ? Thanks Fathi Ben Nasr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem with ltsp 3.0

2001-12-19 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
# # Example of specifying X settings for a workstation # [fathi] XSERVER= auto LOCAL_APPS = N USE_NFS_SWAP = N SWAPFILE_SIZE = 48m RUNLEVEL = 5 > > - Original Message - > From: "Fathi Ben Nasr&q

[Ltsp-discuss] problem with ltsp 3.0

2001-12-18 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
Ben Nasr. _ 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.openprojects.net