Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Where is the official website?

2017-02-06 Thread James Linder
sing a mobile. Since resources are scarce, worrying about "mobile friendly" for more than 1 min seems an utter waste. This is a working site being fashonable "in todays world" is irrelevant. I'm not being horrible to you for heretical thoughts (sorry if it looks like

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Where is the official website?

2017-02-06 Thread James McQuillan
I just noticed the http://www.ltsp.org server wasn't responding so I restarted it. It's back online now. That's just a small part of the problem. Back when I was actively running the project, I think we had a pretty good website. It was based on twiki and was really easy for anyone to edit. Lots

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] centos or suze

2015-11-12 Thread James Linder
nt but no worse (or better) than rpm. Just baby-duck and learning curve. If I had to choose I would choose ubuntu. James -- _ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Getting Started

2015-09-28 Thread James McQuillan
Mark, The old LTSP-4.2 source is available here: http://ltsp.mirrors.tds.net/pub/ltsp/ltsp-4.2/ It's pretty old and unsupported. Also, it's nothing at all like LTSP-5 so you may not get much out of it. As for LTSP-5 sources, it's all in Launchpad. If you want to get it, you will need to fa

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] performance problems

2015-02-13 Thread James McQuillan
My first guess would be the graphics drivers that have been automatically chosen for those thin clients. If it's using the generic driver instead of the specific driver that's best for each chipset, you'll see graphic performance like you describe. Perhaps you can get a shell running on the clien

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox or Chrome?

2015-01-10 Thread James Linder
>alternative for Firefox This is a rude comment but I’m not being horrible :-) IMHO this is a useless post. What is midori, why do you think it is good, why do you think it is bad, how much have you used it James

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] slow performance, where to start?

2014-11-16 Thread James Linder
ver packages." It all depends on what you are trying to achieve. I use xfce or lxde and never have the problem, but as an old fart I think bendy-streachy-flashy desktops are APITA. James -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type -

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] slow performance, where to start?

2014-11-07 Thread James McQuillan
This sounds like a video driver issue on the client. It's probably using the default Vesa driver. Unfortunately, I've been away from ltsp too long to remember what you need to change it to, and how to change it. Jim McQuillan j...@ltsp.org On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Mike Cammilleri wrot

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X server vulnerability on ltsp clients

2014-09-10 Thread James McQuillan
The X server is always listening for client apps to connect up and display stuff. Jim. On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2014-09-10 15:10:14 -0500, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > I haven't yet verified for myself if 6007 is open in either the default > > or LDM_DIRECT

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X server vulnerability on ltsp clients

2014-09-10 Thread James McQuillan
By default, all of the X traffic is tunneled through the ssh connection. ssh will connect to the X server on a standard 600x range port, but it should be doing it on the loopback interface (127.0.0.1). But, the Xserver is probably still listening on the public interface (usually something like

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with Raspberry Pi as thin client

2014-09-08 Thread James Linder
/uploads/2014/05/small_Userguide-pi-ltsp-full-size.pdf I do. It’s easy. It works well. RPi as a stand alone machine running X on the ltsp server. All the heavy lifting is done on the ltsp server and frankly once it works why ever bother to upgrade the RPi. IE LTSP with the server doing the X

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Debian LTSP, load balancing

2014-09-05 Thread James McQuillan
If you are using Gigabit ethernet, you don't need a crossover cable. part of the gigabit spec is to automatically sense whether the devices are plugged into a switch or directly into another machine. Jim McQuillan j...@ltsp.org On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Great Devil Singh wrote: > On F

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] autoboot in ltsp-pnp setup

2014-08-08 Thread James McQuillan
I like this fix. I've been tripped up many times on the 64-bit clients looking for their configs in the 32-bit tree. Thanks vagrant. Jim. On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2014-08-08, Michael Pope wrote: > > Thanks to alkisg on IRC I had to copy my lts.conf file t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Trouble launching libreoffice as a localapp

2014-07-18 Thread James Goff
ltsp-localapp xterm Then launch libreoffice from the terminal. You should be able to see any error messages then. James On 7/18/2014 12:43 PM, Ivaylo Ganchev wrote: > Hello, > > I am facing a problem when launching libreoffice as a localapp. The > progress bar shows for a sec

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] I just set Chromium to start immediately after a client logs in. On my own chromium I know how to set the default page to open any page I tell it but is there some way I can tell it

2013-09-02 Thread James McQuillan
Robert, I played with this stuff several months ago, and I found that you can put stuff in the master_preferences file. In my case, I created a file called: /opt/google/chrome/master_preferences and put this: { "HomepageLocation" : "http://www.ltsp.org";, "homepage_is_newtabpage" : false, "

[Ltsp-discuss] test 1

2013-08-17 Thread James McQuillan
test 1 Some list members have alerted me that their messages aren't getting to the list. This is just a test to see if my messages are making it to the list. carry on. Jim McQuillan j...@ltsp.org -- Get 100% visibility

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Only BusyBox initramfs no matter what I do

2013-07-18 Thread James Butler
NIC driver. (The initramfs environment on the LTSP box had no driver for the thin client's NIC.) Thanks, again. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > On Mi, 2013-07-17 at 17:27 -0700, James Butler wrote: > > > > > Unfortunately, LSHW still s

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Only BusyBox initramfs no matter what I do

2013-07-17 Thread James Butler
PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 02:29:13PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:47:23PM -0700, James Butler wrote: > > > No interfaces found! Aborting... > > ... > > > ipconfig: no devices to configure > > &g

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Only BusyBox initramfs no matter what I do

2013-07-17 Thread James Butler
ctly? > > Have you tried using one of the less powerful machines as the server > (obviously, only for testing purposes) such that you can identify your > server as the problem. Could you 'borrow' a network card from another > machine to test in the server (though, perhaps

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Only BusyBox initramfs no matter what I do

2013-07-16 Thread James Butler
> > -- > Matt > > > On 15 July 2013 22:22, James Butler wrote: > >> Thank you for the reply. >> >> My setup is simply the Ubuntu LTSP box connected via 1 NIC to a hub, and >> a client connected by a single NIC to the same hub. >> >> There are

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Only BusyBox initramfs no matter what I do

2013-07-15 Thread James Butler
ms because of scarce resources. But Ed/Ubuntu 12.04 hasn't worked with any of the systems I have tried to use, new or old. On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:47:23PM -0700, James Butler wrote: > > There is no problem for the cl

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Only BusyBox initramfs no matter what I do

2013-07-15 Thread James Butler
that far and finds the file on the Ubuntu box ... it just craps out after that. I'm guessing at this point, due to the consistency of the messages I receive, that the problem is not with the clients, but with something on the Ubuntu box. On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:01 PM, James McQuillan wr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Only BusyBox initramfs no matter what I do

2013-07-15 Thread James McQuillan
is there any chance you have 2 DHCP servers on your network? perhaps once DHCP server is providing the config that is used during the PXE phase, and a different DHCP server is providing different values to the kernel. Jim McQuillan j...@ltsp.org On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:47 PM, James Butler

[Ltsp-discuss] Only BusyBox initramfs no matter what I do

2013-07-15 Thread James Butler
Master LTSP System: HP Proliant 4-drive RAID (1.4TB total), 12GB RAM Thin Clients: Dell Optiplex (old), Sony Vaio (2012), HP Pavillion (2013) Connection: Proliant eth0 into Netgear hub, Thin client eth0 into same Netgear hu (exactly as shown in the UbuntuLTSP/LTSPWiring diagram from the docs wiki)

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How is graphics divided between server and thin client?

2013-02-27 Thread James McQuillan
Lachele, I'll try and explain how the graphics works in a thin client environment. A typical LTSP thin client is just a small computer with a monitor, keyboard and mouse attached to it. The thin client has a video card that the monitor is plugged into, and usually USB or PS2 ports for the keyboa

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp client build error Centos 6.3

2013-02-06 Thread James McQuillan
'Ending support for i386' is a phrase that needs to be understood carefully. They're not saying that Intel 32-bit support is going away. There's still the 486, Pentium (i586) and Pentium Pro (i686). It's just up until recently, the lowest chip the Linux kernel would support was the 386. Now, i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux kernel, (actually Ingo Molnar) has pulled the plugs on Intel's 386 processors.

2012-12-18 Thread James Linder
r (where forever is indeterminate and long) If you are talking FAT clients then again it is because you want nice-things. So I guess the answer is choose your features - heavy-distro mix ratio. There is nothing to be gained from "I want all the nice things" on the "crappiest low end

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux kernel, (actually Ingo Molnar) has pulled the plugs on Intel's 386 processors.

2012-12-18 Thread James McQuillan
boa tarde Luiz, I share your concern about performance issues on older hardware. The fact that you are running a cpu at 500MHz indicates it's not an i386 so you should be fine at least for a while. Going forward, as long as the CPU is supported by the linux kernel, there shouldn't be a problem.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Many clients do not display login screen, just a blank screen

2012-12-16 Thread James Linder
ut what could be happening ... this implies that *any* machine doing an xdm or X -query to the server would get an upside down display ... possible I guess ... but certainly not what I've ever seen. One thing is CERTAIN

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux kernel, (actually Ingo Molnar) has pulled the plugs on Intel's 386 processors.

2012-12-16 Thread James McQuillan
I don't think anybody is running an LTSP server with a 386 CPU, and I don't think LTSP-5 ever supported thin clients with 386 CPUs. Linus didn't say he's dropping support for all Intel CPUs, just the i386. I'm sure the i486's days are numbered, but even back in 1999, when we started LTSP, we were

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Many clients do not display login screen, just a blank screen

2012-12-11 Thread James Linder
on your problematic client. If and when you get a working solution then install that in your chroot image, The process varies depending on which drivers eg I've seen (ltsp wiki maybe) how to install nvidia drivers on the thin clients. James > > There are other proprietary binary dri

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as an android app

2012-12-04 Thread James McQuillan
I don't understand the desire to run "LTSP" on an android device. We developed LTSP as a small "distribution of Linux" to run on fairly low-end hardware because so many people weren't happy with the current choices. At the time, the world was largely dominated by Windows 95 and 98. LTSP was succ

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as an android app

2012-12-04 Thread James Linder
> modifications. How about every mac, every linux machine and easily on windows. (non PXE clients) try X -query server or Xnest and ming or extreem on windows James -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote suppo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Grant write privileges to PHP to the etc/passwd

2012-11-09 Thread James McQuillan
In your php code: system( "sudo /usr/local/bin/lock_user $the_user" ); You'll need to create a script called /usr/local/bin/lock_user that contains: #!/bin/bash passwd --lock $1 Make it executable and then, you'll need to add an entry to the sudoers file to allow www-data to run the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Grant write privileges to PHP to the etc/passwd

2012-11-09 Thread James McQuillan
I agree with Bettina, using usermod is MUCH better than editing the /etc/passwd file. You'll just need to setup /etc/sudoers.conf to allow the php program to run usermod. Actually, I'd write a script. maybe call it 'disable_user' and 'enable_user' and setup sudo to allow THAT script to be run.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Notifications to all users in X sessions?

2012-11-06 Thread James Linder
down already does that ie message to say power fail, on UPS, shutdown in 90seconds (whatever) broadcast to every user console or xterm (I've not tried a session without a terminal) James -- LogMeIn Central: Instant, anyw

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] We need more help with getting LTSP approved as a StackExchange site

2012-10-24 Thread James McQuillan
: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/46547/ltsp-linux-terminal-server-project Jim McQuillan j...@ltsp.org On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Chris Roberts wrote: > On Tuesday 23 Oct 2012, James McQuillan wrote: > > Each unique person can vote for up to 5 questions and they can create up

[Ltsp-discuss] We need more help with getting LTSP approved as a StackExchange site

2012-10-23 Thread James McQuillan
Last week I sent an email announcing that We've created a StackExchange proposal for LTSP. Many of you have gone to the site and picked the new LTSP proposal site to follow. I really appreciate that. But, in order for us to get this new proposal approved, we need a total of at least 60 users (As

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Question about accessing local media

2012-10-22 Thread James Linder
On 23/10/2012, at 4:22 AM, ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > hmm, I am not succeeding: > > [snip] > How can I gain SSH access? :-/ http://tigger.ws/wiki/index.php5?title=Ltsp James ---

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Question about accessing local media

2012-10-21 Thread James McQuillan
Get to the console of the thin client, or configure sshd to allow you to ssh into the thin client from the server. Once you have a cmd line session on the thin client, you can check to see if your modules are loaded with lsmod, or see if dmesg shows that it detected your drive and also you can see

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Stackexchange site proposed

2012-10-18 Thread James McQuillan
Hey all, I've created a "proposed" LTSP site on StackExchange. If you aren't familiar with StackExchange, it's sort of a "forum" for asking questions and getting answers. The answers can be voted Up or Down, so over time, you'll get a pretty good sense of the quality of the answer to the questio

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP, LDM and Password Expiration

2012-09-26 Thread James McQuillan
I've always been interested in providing some kind of configuration for LDAP in the server, but I've also looked at is as a barrier to people getting LTSP up and running. There's so many choices to make with LDAP and it's not exactly easy to configure and troubleshoot. Many people already have LD

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP, LDM and Password Expiration

2012-09-21 Thread James McQuillan
Scott Balneaves has spent quite a bit of time PAM-ifing the login manager to facilitate password expiration. it's not ready for production use yet but he's made some great progress. Many of the LTSP developers will be getting together at the dev conference starting on Oct 4th. I'm sure both passw

[Ltsp-discuss] Test of mailing list performance

2012-09-20 Thread James McQuillan
Hello all, We're evaluating alternatives for the mailing list server. One thing we've been hearing is that the current list server is slow at sending out messages. I'm sending this message at 2:05PM EDT (18:05GMT). If some of you would look at what time you received this message and respond wit

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Edubuntu thin-client and VirtualBox Guest Additions

2012-09-02 Thread James Linder
m Christian does not work on VBox VMs (Christian the VBox screen size is set by the VM. You can't configure it until you install the guest-addons then you can drag the window size to what you like) James -- Live

[Ltsp-discuss] New LTSP Website / Wiki Launched

2012-08-30 Thread James McQuillan
We’ve launched a new website for LTSP.org with a brand new Wiki. We are seeing more and more LTSP Success Stories submitted and increase in the use of technical content and documentation on the Wiki. For those who have successfully deployed LTSP in businesses, schools, or elsewhere, please share y

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Unreliable DHCP server: No DHCP offers received on LTSP client

2012-08-23 Thread James Linder
ore/mythlogs --loglevel info # Whether systemd will continue over-watch and restart on any halt Restart=Restart-always [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target [snip] James -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Verifying NBD Swap is active?

2012-08-11 Thread James Goff
AC Address] size=256 [Client 12 MAC Address] size=256 So I edited my file and tried: [Default] size=128 But it didn't seem to make any difference. No swap file appeared in \tmp. Should the swap file get created even if the client does not have a current need for swap space? On 8/10/

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Verifying NBD Swap is active?

2012-08-10 Thread James Goff
On 8/10/2012 9:07 PM, John Hupp wrote: I'm putting a couple tweaks in place in my new Lubuntu LTSP test setup. (E.g. I turned off SSH-encrypted sessions for better performance on the terminal, and I was able to verify that this was in force.) I also believe I have NBD Swap set up: Edit LTS.C

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp-build client error on fedora 16

2012-08-09 Thread James Linder
d to do this on openSUSE, we have native support for > LTSP[1], you can even use that to run on other distributions[2] like > above steps mentions :) > > [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:KIWI-LTSP > [2] http://old-en.opensuse.org/LTSP/Other_Distros You've put in LOTS of hard w

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp-build client error on fedora 16

2012-08-08 Thread James Linder
with centos 1) Setup an ubuntu VM on your host 2) install LTSP 3) Drop the LTSP implementation into your host 4) Do the minor fiddles to make it run I even wrapped it all into an rpm, with all the setup and dependancies resolved. Works well James --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client boot error: piix4_smbus ... Host SMBus controller not enabled

2012-07-27 Thread James McQuillan
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:39 PM, PRP Company wrote: > For an LTSP network where all the clients show this client boot error, > can I > sudo gedit /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf > > then add > blacklist i2c_piix4 > to the blacklist and save, > > then > sudo ltsp-build-cl

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to deal with dead hard drive?

2012-07-26 Thread James Linder
failures far outweigh single disk failures in the published Tales of Woe. YMMV. James > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:36 PM, James Linder wrote: >> >> On 26/07/2012, at 2:47 AM, ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: >> >>> I arrived at school today to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SCREEN_07=shell console font size

2012-07-26 Thread James Linder
scrollbar_position hidden >>gconftool-2 -s --type=string /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/font >> "LucidaTypewriter 14" >> >> You can find all the parameters you can change by using gconf-editor >> Where you put them depends on your window manager

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to deal with dead hard drive?

2012-07-25 Thread James Linder
l. How people bridle at that statement! The advantage of SSD is not being susceptable to the vibration issues. The value? Plan for failure/recovery and apply your own value criteria. James -- Live Security Virtual Conferen

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SCREEN_07=shell console font size

2012-07-25 Thread James Linder
g /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/foreground_color #FF gconftool-2 -s --type=string /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/scrollbar_position hidden gconftool-2 -s --type=string /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/font "LucidaTypewriter 14" You can find all the p

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SCREEN_07=shell console font size

2012-07-23 Thread James Linder
n term (I use gnome-terminal) I can the set colour (sic) and font size and cant recall now how, but one can dynamically change settings. gconf edit lets you choose the parameters including no border Doing it like this is totally compatible with eve

[Ltsp-discuss] New LTSP wiki (LTSPedia) launches in Beta

2012-07-12 Thread James McQuillan
Hello fellow LTSP developers. It's been a long time since I've posted anything on this mailing list, but I want you all to know that I'm still out here involved in LTSP. We've been working on a new wiki for LTSP as the following announcement explains: Release announcement: The new LTSP wiki la

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] epoptes code hacking

2012-05-16 Thread James Linder
On 16/05/2012, at 9:35 PM, ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > SSH installed in the chroot? http://tigger.ws/wiki/index.php5?title=Ltsp James > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Suraj Kumar wrote: > >> This is what I understand and I'd be glad to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X_COLOR_DEPTH=16 by default for thin clients

2012-03-26 Thread James Linder
d the eye cannot distinguish (angular resolution of human eye) Can your monitor resolve 16 vs 24 colour? maybe but maybe not. There is no reason to choose 32 or 24 over 16. If you do see a difference it is hardware rather than

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB "Cannot allocate memory"

2012-01-31 Thread James Linder
may well be that thin clients do not play nicely with 8 and 16G RAM. Also the memory usage pattern makes 64 bit LTSP servers desirable, but I would argue that single app large-memory usage is served by pxe paging, with no clear performance benefit either way (32 or 64

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] installing thin clients with Ubuntu 10.10 or higher

2011-12-29 Thread James Linder
that doing the cheap thing easily leads to the "we tried linux and it was an utter mess" Moi would get any of the $100ish thin clients available and use those In other (harsher) words I don't think you are doing You, LTSP or Linux any favours by doing a cheap one legged system. Jam

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ssh issue with LDM

2011-12-18 Thread James Linder
that is me won't break anything (but often it is called localhost). James > I checked and resolv.conf had entries for IPv6 and also had a weird entry of > > 127.0.1.1 ncslts3 > > on the ncslts3 server. I commented out all the IPv6 entries and also > the above line.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SSH VNC Tunneling to LTSP server

2011-12-14 Thread James Linder
/www.no-ip.com/ is your friend if you get a random DSL ip 100 lines ... I will read the question I will read ... sorry all James -- 10 Tips for Better Server Consolidation Server virtualization is being driven by many nee

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SSH VNC Tunneling to LTSP server

2011-12-13 Thread James Linder
home server on port 80 /etc/ssh/sshd_config ... Port 22 Port 80 ... then from your friendly putty or other ssh client ssh -p 80 my.home.machine voila http://www.no-ip.com/ is your friend if you get a random DSL ip James ---

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How does Unity perform on your thin-clients?

2011-12-09 Thread James Linder
ow terminal. I guess that's 50% of the way there ... James -- Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How does Unity perform on your thin-clients?

2011-12-09 Thread James Linder
ing as a fat client. If the answer is admin then a one-word answer would be enough. I (after very many years) don't consider this aspect to be a chore. [for the non native english speakers: wax lyrical means tell

[Ltsp-discuss] jetdirect fixed

2011-10-14 Thread James Linder
all the timeout patches. http://tigger.ws/downloads/p910nd.tgz James -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Build Linux Server and Thin Client Environment - For Community College

2011-10-12 Thread James Linder
my heart soared, but alas root@wood:/# apt-get install python-serial Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done python-serial is already the newest version. python-serial set to manually installed. Its quite intricate and very messy so

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Build Linux Server and Thin Client Environment - For Community College

2011-10-10 Thread James Linder
to jet See the jetpipe disappears when printed to On the server I watch with wireshark, and see the data being sent to the client Since I'm doing nothing out of the ordinary, I conclude that it does not work James -

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Monitor off

2011-09-27 Thread James Linder
help I'b be wildly grateful A later posting shows xset -dpms xset s off I'll try that James -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application p

[Ltsp-discuss] printers

2011-09-25 Thread James Linder
server to client DSTPORT hp-pdl-datastr (9100) data This is line 1 This is ine 2 OK the server is sending valid data to the client. Trying to understand somebody's python rather rubs the soal at the best of times, this is very ouch. Is there a spec Does anybody have it workin

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp gurus please help

2011-09-16 Thread James Linder
wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:06:08AM +0800, James Linder wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I'm using a 10.04 chroot, but have tried an 11.04 too. >>> >>> I need to support a 100 or so uber grot Micros WS5 POS terminals as clients. &

[Ltsp-discuss] ltsp gurus please help

2011-09-14 Thread James Linder
ow can I totally disable all local media searching. This hardware definitely hicups on DMA. I see no kernel parameters to disable DMA Thanks James -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB madness (SOLVED)

2011-08-25 Thread James Linder
On 26/08/2011, at 3:01 AM, ltsp-discuss-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > On the server, you used commas: o,0,0,0 > On the client, you used periods: o.0.0.0 > > is that a typo? > > -Gadi > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 5:08 AM, James Linder wrote: >> Hi &g

[Ltsp-discuss] USB madness

2011-08-14 Thread James Linder
.0' >/dev/ttyACM0 root@prp12:/tmp# cat /dev/ttyACM0 !8 Err: Unknown command '!8:2138' !7 Err: Extra parmater ^C The modules (lsmod) look the same, neither loads tty, both load usb and hid. Since both use the same HW and same SW this must be an ltsp issue Any ideas, or inspirati

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] pains changing from X2GO

2011-07-06 Thread James Linder
ng any warnings at all. >> >> > No, I have to confirm to add the machine to the knownhosts and to give > the passwd for the user > The words you are saying say that 1) You don't understand LTSP 2) You want it working quick 3) You want to keep your e

[Ltsp-discuss] Re Big memory leak under Ubuntu Lucid (2.6.32-28-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP)

2011-02-09 Thread James
xpect to see swap slowly being used up, as it saves what-was-leaked-but-the-OS-thinks-is-important. My quick looks says all seems good James -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinp

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Are 64 bit clients "better" than 32 bit clients?

2011-01-27 Thread James
n general I would say avoid 64 bit unless you know you want it. In general make your servers 64 bit. James -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Enabing fat machines on client network

2011-01-12 Thread James
h talks via 192.168.1.server or server MASQs and all 192.168.1.xx traffic seems to come from 10.5.5.server If your server is ubuntu then guidedog is a nice GUI app to setup it's masq. My clever but computer naive friend drives it just fine. This is all messy and intricate but is not hard

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] advices needed before buying a new server

2010-11-05 Thread James
RAM is gone to the guest and cannot be swapped or used until the guest is finished. XP VMs (and a W7 trial) have no noticeable effect on the server. I generally give one core to the guest only, but even giving it all cores seems to have no effect. Of course there are no free lunches: 2 VMs go

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] /tmp on ramdisk?

2010-11-05 Thread James
; /tmp is always cleared on a reboot, even if it's in persistent > > storage, so a ramdisk has no disadvantage in this regard. > > Ummm... not in Red Hat-like systems. I have files dating back to 2007 > in my /tmp! It's a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] advices needed before buying a new server

2010-11-04 Thread James
proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio $test" fi test=`cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio` if [ "$test" != "1" ]; then echo "BAD: /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio $test" fi test=`cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs` if [ "$test" != "24000&

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ltsp-discuss Digest, Vol 53, Issue 10

2010-10-27 Thread James
H=30-88 > >> > > Already tried it, doesn't work :( > > > > It makes no difference whatsoever. > > > > how can one know if LTS.CONF file is being processed by the client? Christian the devil is in the detail :-) please tell us WHAT VM and any relevant

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP screen resolution

2010-10-27 Thread James
#x27;Don't ask for EDID' in your xorg file. Since you are using a virtual machine the graphics card is probably 'unknown' or vesa. In both cases you cannot do better than 800x600. I'm sure you *can* run guest additions on a VM under virtual box, but I've

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin-client screen resolution problem

2010-10-06 Thread james
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Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [OT] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-06 Thread james
with OO for hours then just use word (thanks crossover) one would need to be stupid or fanatical to try to insist on the one true way. I have a years worth of never-a-problem with crossover and MS2007. James -- Beautifu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-06 Thread james
nse with a shared install that allows 10 users is not going to work out the box, neither should it. You can (easily) break the license, but that is not the point. James -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Expl

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-06 Thread james
world of wine tweaking :-) And crossover is > > doing it this way. > > the trial doesnt include multi user support :( Crossover will bend over backwards to help you. Be fair-dinkum with them and they will recipricate. James

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDM gives panable virtual desktop

2010-08-12 Thread james
overides what you say! I arranged ssh to my chroot, ssh to the thin client and look at the Xorglog My wiki documents how, but a new server means my wiki is down. Google there is quite a bit of info specially getting /dev/random (urandom ??) in order t

[Ltsp-discuss] default session

2010-08-03 Thread james
does work) I cant see how to set the default session. Help please ... anybody ... James -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Login with wrong password gives "no response from server"

2010-07-28 Thread james
.g. "authentication failure", which would > be true in either case and more intuitive in the vast majority of cases > where it is simply a password issue. No it is not. Read what Gadi said. If you could issue a message, you could rule the world (re-login etc) The problem is you don&

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Compiling ldm

2010-07-15 Thread james
-2.1.1/src/ldm > and here is the output from configure && make: then as root make install to install ldm in /usr/bin etc [more snip] james -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do fir

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problem with lts.conf on Ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-08 Thread james
1 for a shell !! BTW I use ssh to the thin clients. I find that much easier. http://tigger.ws/wiki/index.php/Ltsp is a collection of stuff I've read else where and it works James -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDa

[Ltsp-discuss] touch

2010-05-19 Thread james
conf is needed, but it's a huge amount of work to discover the details if they are already known. The world is starting to go that-a-way ie new eee with

[Ltsp-discuss] autologin

2010-05-12 Thread james
.dmrc does not alter the behaviour. ie so bizare just say it again: set .dmrc to icewm-session set console session menu choice to gnome TC logs in with gnome session console login logs in to gnome session first gnome session to run changes .dmrc to reflect gno

[Ltsp-discuss] RHEL session selection

2010-05-07 Thread james
can either install KDE to see how they invoke the session menu OR ask for guidance from anybody who knows (Warren?) Hacking Xsession is not preferred because of futures, 1000s sites, that sort of mundane commercial trivia. Any help or ideas please James PS I've taken a karmic chroot and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Multiple network root systems...

2010-04-24 Thread james
e posted here (this year) how I run LTSP 5 on centos. CentOS 5.4 does not do pulse, but I don't need audio. For me it is perfect. James -- _ Ltsp-discu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nvidia drivers Solved

2010-04-01 Thread james
t install nvidia-glx-185 exit copy the chroot to my real server ltsp-update-sshkeys ltsp-update-image --arch=i386 Use sudo as appropriate, I use root. All works sweetly. James -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the ne

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] switches on rdesktop rdp options command line

2010-04-01 Thread james
to prevent DOS attacks. I upped the number of simultainious processes to stop the delay when booting lots of clients. For my 100s of systems deployed to customers there is no delay in booting 10 < n < 100 clients, whereas before I experienced the dreaded delay. I did this years ago and don

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