Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 and Freenx Tests

2007-07-23 Thread Joe Baker
ly require more ram than the average thin client though for standard use. Others have mentioned that Firefox likes to use lots of the X Server's RAM. I wonder how Firefox's XServer Ram utilization works under NoMachine. -Joe Baker --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 and Freenx Tests

2007-07-20 Thread Joe Baker
Raman.P wrote the following on 07/19/2007 11:40 PM: > Hi > > Session Persistence seems to be good point in favour > of NX. > > Is there anyway in ltsp providing such facility?. > People have reported getting NX to work on LTSP clients. It does seem to take about 35 more seconds to resume a conn

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 and Freenx Tests

2007-07-19 Thread Joe Baker
fact that I run multiple instances of the NXClient talking to accounts on various machines. -Joe Baker - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/g

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 and Freenx Tests

2007-07-17 Thread Joe Baker
think of it as. Thanks for sharing the results of your work. I hope to travel in some of your footsteps running NX technologies on the thinclients. Sincerely, Joe Baker - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Downlo

[Ltsp-discuss] Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability

2007-07-13 Thread Joe Baker
you might also check to see if the IRQ for your Ethernet card is shared with another function as well. Sometimes the delay is long other times it's not. My DHCP does not notify assignments to a DNS server. Sometimes I've thought that might be partly to blame for sometimes slow

[Ltsp-discuss] NoMachine - FreeNX's Evolution

2007-07-12 Thread Joe Baker
e "Beeing There" A play on the title of a movie called "Being There" by Peter Sellers. It puts the whole remote computing thing into prospective. You're remote, but it's just like Being there. You can Buzz about from place to place and still use the so

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDM_DIRECTX option

2007-06-30 Thread Joe Baker
Maybe there's a way to replace gnome-screensaver. It has been broken for some time while using LDAP PAM authentication on many distributions. -Joe Baker - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Ex

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] lp_server on LTSP 5 Ubuntu 6.10

2007-04-10 Thread Joe Baker
Joe Baker wrote: > Joe Baker wrote: > >> Jim McQuillan wrote: >> >> >>> Yeah, we found that while working on LTSP-4.2 update 2, lp_server >>> doesn't like to work in bidirectional mode with the 2.6 kernels. >>>

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 3d desktop

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Baker
Andrew Ziem wrote: > sokol wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a little question after unfruitful googling. Someone has managed to >> run a 3d desktop (like Mandriva 2007) on a thin client? Any hints are >> welcome. >> >> >> > Dave Richards runs a large terminal server project (maybe 700 u

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] lp_server on LTSP 5 Ubuntu 6.10

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Baker
Joe Baker wrote: > Jim McQuillan wrote: > >> Yeah, we found that while working on LTSP-4.2 update 2, lp_server >> doesn't like to work in bidirectional mode with the 2.6 kernels. >> >> We changed PRINTER_x_WRITE_ONLY = Y as the default. >> >> &

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] lp_server on LTSP 5 Ubuntu 6.10

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Baker
e defaults stanza of my lts.conf file. It didn't help with starting the lp_server. I'm going to patch the start_printer script to add a -w option for the time being. -Joe Baker - Take Surveys. Earn Cash

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Windows programs on LTSP

2007-02-15 Thread Joe Baker
Bill Alsbury wrote: > > I am sure this has been asked before but I couldn’t find it in the > archive so if someone could point me in the right direction I would be > most grateful. > > > > I am looking to implement a LTSP solution as I have serious bandwidth > issues and mostly non IT literate st

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Windows programs on LTSP

2007-02-15 Thread Joe Baker
Joe Baker wrote: > Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > >> Onsdag 14 februar 2007 12:16 skrev Bill Alsbury: >> >> >>> I am sure this has been asked before but I couldn't find it in the >>> archive so if someone could point me in the right direction

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Windows programs on LTSP

2007-02-15 Thread Joe Baker
.com/ They have a pricy solution, but it seems like it would work with most any Windows program. I havn't used this one although there was a write-up on it in Linux Journal Feb 2007 edition. Also to reduce bandwidth

[Ltsp-discuss] lp_server on LTSP 5 Ubuntu 6.10

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Baker
added "-r 192.168.0.0/24" to the parameters in addition to -w. So to enable printing to /dev/lp0 I'm having to ssh to the thin client box as root and execute: /usr/lib/ltsp/lp_server -n 9100 -d /dev/lp0 -r 192.16

[Ltsp-discuss] Linksys LNE 100TX v5.1 has 2 minute boot delay in Ubuntu LTSP 5

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Baker
therwise everything looks good. I had bought 20 of these NICs in the past specifically so I wouldn't have to make up so many different Etherboot images for various machines around the office. I'd be glad to ship one to someone w

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Quad head terminal

2006-12-07 Thread Joe Baker
) that you unplug the fan altogether. Unplugging them will reduce the load on the power supply, reduce the heat generated as well. I've done this on a system where the only noise I hear from it is the bizzare sounds the Video card makes and the floppy when Etherboot

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Syslog error message appears on users X Desktop!

2006-05-05 Thread Joe Baker
Joe Baker wrote: This is a rare occurance, but it is really wierd. Error Message echoed to user's screen from syslog "Kwrited Listening on device /dev/pts/13" One of those Donald Becker messages about being the author of the network card driver. This occurred when another lt

[Ltsp-discuss] Syslog error message appears on users X Desktop!

2006-05-05 Thread Joe Baker
This is a rare occurance, but it is really wierd. Error Message echoed to user's screen from syslog "Kwrited Listening on device /dev/pts/13" One of those Donald Becker messages about being the author of the network card driver. This occurred when another ltsp thin client running 4.1 was boot

[Ltsp-discuss] 4.2 DHCPcd issue on 3c905TX

2006-04-13 Thread Joe Baker
looks like a mismatch of the card types looking at the above line... 3c59x != 3c905 Maybe something is wrong with the detection and association of the driver? I think these are pretty popular NICs from the past so we might see this issue start to pop up more frequently. The hardware address of the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] XServer error

2005-08-22 Thread Joe Baker
ou might try using fonts over NFS instead of using the font server approach USE_XFS = N as Jim pointed out in an earlier message. -Joe Baker --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client RAM requirements & X crashing

2005-08-19 Thread Joe Baker
Joe Baker wrote: Jason Maas wrote: Hi James, On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can show you a site that will crash ltsp + firefox with 256M ram on client, reliably, repeatably, and at the same point every time. Problem description --- The problem

[Ltsp-discuss] HP Brio & Power Saving

2005-08-15 Thread Joe Baker
ll this powersaving have also been addressed by passing something like noacpi on some sort of kernel options line in lts.conf? LTSP 4.1.1 Kernel 2.4.26-ltsp-2 Integrated Video: Intel 82810 Graphics Controller. -Joe Baker --- SF.Net email is Sponsore

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] different logins for different folks

2005-08-11 Thread Joe Baker
sessions from a window-manager-less screen using kdm's auto-login feature so they could re-connect to their persistant vncserver session. Thanks to _YOU_ I think I can finally make this a reality! -Joe Baker --- SF.Net email is Sponsor

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: Wacom tablet on client

2005-08-11 Thread Joe Baker
of the mouse interface. -Joe Baker --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Pr

[Ltsp-discuss] Gentoo's Portage instead of LBE

2005-08-11 Thread Joe Baker
to perform version bumps of programs. So I'd say it's easy to use and would fit the bill in a wonderful way for accellerating LTSP's future at breakneck speed. -Joe Baker --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Sof

[Ltsp-discuss] SuSE x86-64 DHCPd

2005-08-11 Thread Joe Baker
Has anybody succeded in getting ISC's DHCPd to run on a SuSE 9.3 64bit installation. I tried it and got an "unknown error" with a bunch of hex characters. I've setup ISC DHCP servers about 15 times, so this one has me

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] FAMD-too many open files

2005-08-03 Thread Joe Baker
pretty sure you can put a value in there like this... echo 500 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max -Joe Baker

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] FAMD-too many open files

2005-08-01 Thread Joe Baker
ot;Standard" security level rather than the "high" level. I'm sure that this has implications that are relevant here. -Joe Baker --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find sim

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP crashing ~1minute after start: Xorg.0.0.log?

2005-06-30 Thread Joe Baker
eck /var/log/messages to see if processes are being killed. Maybe you are running up against # of open files/process limitations (that can be configured higher). Cheers! And good luck with it today. -Joe Baker --- SF.Net email is sponsored b

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problem with famd

2005-06-28 Thread Joe Baker
You may be on the right track with famd. But you may want to increase the value contained here: /proc/sys/fs/file-max Cat the file first to see the vaule. Then perform an echo 1000 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max I was told that the value which can go into this file can go upwards of 4 billion. Ge

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cant login as normal user from lts workstation

2005-06-20 Thread Joe Baker
d /etc/hosts lookups. We invest a great deal of effort to have our internal network IP space both forward and reverse DNS served. Yet from a shell screen on the thin client,host names like sun2.nelfc.com don't resolve and I'm forced to use the IP address when ssh-ing to the termina

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Unable to Complete a Rebuild of the _vmlinuz-2.6.9-ltsp-3_

2005-06-15 Thread Joe Baker
not tell you how glad I am that we have this excellent tool. I must also stress that I see the wisdom of keeping our build environment consistant so that anything you may develop and want to share with the LTSP community is reproducable, without errors. -Joe Baker --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and bonding

2005-06-15 Thread Joe Baker
tem it runs whenever I run an LTSP client on GNOME. Interestingly these s2u daemons never seem to die. Maybe that's why that user reported gnome desktop applications popping up in the wrong desktop. -Joe Baker --- SF.Net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server recommendations

2005-06-03 Thread Joe Baker
thin client's screen. It's really a brilliant tactic. -Joe Baker Burlington, Wisconsin and St. Louis, Missouri --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride y

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server recommendations

2005-06-02 Thread Joe Baker
am.  Only the workstations were running KDE with full glitz turned on!  My cpu-load skyrocketed to about 20 :) I had PC100 ram, very little cpu-cache ram and all the IDE disk i/o took it's toll on the cpu as well. -Joe Baker  Burlington, Wisconsin  & St. Louis, Missouri  

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server recommendations

2005-06-02 Thread Joe Baker
m experiment with an AMD Duron 1700 with 1 Gigabyte of ram. Only the workstations were running KDE with full glitz turned on! My cpu-load skyrocketed to about 20 :) I had PC100 ram, very little cpu-cache ram and all the IDE disk i/o took it's toll on the cpu as

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] USB mouse on a laptop thin client

2005-06-01 Thread Joe Baker
host configuration stanza. I could have used this feature today. -Joe Baker DenisG wrote: Hi all I'm trying to make USB mouse working on thin LTSP client (laptop with USB but no PS/2 or serial). I use Ubuntu for the server (Debian-based, kernel 2.6.10-5-386), LTSP 4.1. I found some things