[Ltsp-discuss] Re: gdm help

2003-02-12 Thread John Karns
gt; > thanks! 8) Sorry, I've never used gdm. I use xdm in most cases, kdm in a few. I'd suggest taking a look at an xdm installation and how my previously posted solution is set up with that, then trying to apply it to gdm. --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: "date" on LTS, how best to set it?

2003-02-08 Thread John Karns
ot be strictly necessary if you're going to make the call to rdate on every login of the terminal(s), though. > I still welcome a better approach, an approach that doesn't require > excessive changes on the main computer (server) and the LTSP machine, > or an approach condoned by

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: Re: ltsp capacity on server (John Karns)

2003-02-04 Thread John Karns
- i.e. disk capacity?, ATA-100/133?, mobo type? CPU clock? In addition to what I mentioned, I'm using an MSI 6561 SiS 745 mobo w/ Athlon XP 1800 w/ DDR RAM. John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Different font sizes on server vs terminals

2003-02-04 Thread John Karns
e. There is some info on this subject to found in the "XWindow-User-HOWTO" which you should be able to find on http://www.tldp.org. John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] if one user logs in twice, KDE will not workwithout error

2003-02-04 Thread John Karns
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Cliff Barnes said: > For what is the line with pam_devperm.so? Is it a must? Sorry, can't say. The file reflects the distro's PAM cfg. I just added the one line. --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: ltsp capacity on server

2003-02-04 Thread John Karns
ut $40. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: ltsp capacity on server

2003-02-03 Thread John Karns
= All that said, perhaps it's time to try an ATA-100 in one of the boxes with a currently available mobo to see what kind of performance differences there are with the current hardware. I hope I'll find that I can justify dropping SCSI, and saving the added expense. -

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] if one user logs in twice, KDE will not workwithout error

2003-02-03 Thread John Karns
none # inserted the following line to invoke pam limits session required pam_limits.so session required pam_devperm.so John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Cliff B

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] if one user logs in twice, KDE will not workwithout error

2003-02-01 Thread John Karns
d be required in the suicide script to distinguish between sessions as well. John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterpr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to clear cpu usage?

2003-02-01 Thread John Karns
ccidently done as root would end life as we > know it. :-) Yeah, that's what happened when it ran before I made the change to $USER :/, for the reason I mentioned, that xdm runs as root. Good addition though. ---- John Kar

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: ltsp capacity on server

2003-02-01 Thread John Karns
s a lot of the disk i/o burden from the CPU, so it's like having a faster CPU. John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to clear cpu usage?

2003-01-31 Thread John Karns
=== The reason being that $(whoami) evaluates to root, as xdm is run as root. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.NE

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to clear cpu usage?

2003-01-31 Thread John Karns
= Seems to work ok ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterp

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] EPIA problems

2003-01-30 Thread John Karns
t to check that. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Someth

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 386 as workstation

2003-01-30 Thread John Karns
bus itself only moves data at about 15bT equiv > > so there is no inherent advantage to putting a 100bT NIC onto that bus. I have never seen a 100 bT ISA NIC. AFAIK, they don't exist, cuz the bus is incapable of handling the bw. I believe 100 bT requires a PCI bus.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] PSU question

2003-01-13 Thread John Karns
I can't remember the details of the original post. Did you ask about a PSU with a 4 conductor plug? It's just a guess, but I've heard reference to Pentium 4 PSU's in many newer boxes. ---

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] no connection to X-server from elsewhere

2003-01-11 Thread John Karns
the servers /etc/hosts.allow for the client, because AFAIK, in order for the client to mount the necessary directories via NFS it needs tp have access - at least that's what I had to do on my SuSE server. John Karns

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] No boot, just terminal server with sound

2003-01-10 Thread John Karns
t locally, it seems to me that it would make more sense to have a more conventional network - standaline Linux workstation PC's networked. To share apps and data, use something like NFS or samba. John Karns

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] terminal reboots after dhcp-request

2003-01-10 Thread John Karns
e problem). After working out the problem, then carry that cfg over to the LTS. -------- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.NET email is sponsor

Re: Fwd: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] From Scratch

2003-01-09 Thread John Karns
y may have finally fixed it, as I haven't received any of those for most of the day today. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- T

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] From Scratch

2003-01-09 Thread John Karns
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Stephen Liu said: > Hi John, > > --- John Karns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > - snip > > Also see Ken Yap's site. And from the 1st document > > above, > > > > 7.5. For more information > > Kindly advise

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp_with_staroffice 5.2

2003-01-09 Thread John Karns
emanding) purposes. Then there is the forms generator, and ... Even has an sql table viewing widget. Haven't done anything with it yet, but am hoping that I can get it to work with Postgres. Could be that OO has those, I don't know. ---

[Ltsp-discuss] Apologies for mail problem

2003-01-07 Thread John Karns
rom many if not all of my incoming mail msgs. Sorry for any inconvenience. An added benefit is that the spammers are getting confirmation of my local address. ---- John Karns

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp_with_staroffice 5.2

2003-01-07 Thread John Karns
/www.openoffice.org - is free, supported, and a > much better product... Isn't SO 5.2 also free (as in no license fee required)? I also use SO 5.2, as it has some features that OO lacks, such as an agenda, with an add-on server pkg w/ group-ware characteristics. -----

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] From Scratch

2003-01-07 Thread John Karns
you can subscribe to, where problems and solutions are discussed. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceFor

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Access Local Devices - except HD? Why?

2003-01-03 Thread John Karns
om, as both devices are IDE. Could be wrong though. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Wel

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] realtek 8139 setup?

2003-01-02 Thread John Karns
there was one. I just used the realtek Dos utility after booting Dos from floppy. -------- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net email is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] EMachine EOne as Terminal Client

2002-12-31 Thread John Karns
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Rick Gatewood said: > On Monday 30 December 2002 11:41 am, John Karns wrote: > > > > Sorry I can't give a really specific answer re Linux on the EOne, but the > > requirements for an LTS client are pretty much limited to X compatibility > > o

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] EMachine EOne as Terminal Client

2002-12-30 Thread John Karns
e) can prove helpful in determining general Linux compatibility. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGee

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] TFTP-problem?

2002-12-21 Thread John Karns
>/tftpboot > > But this didn't help... maybe bootp is the same as dhcp!? Correct - you shouldn't run both tftp and bootps. I made the same mistake, and wasted several days trying to figure it out.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] fixed or dynamic

2002-07-30 Thread John Karns
say that as long as all client hardware was the same so that you wouldn't have to make any distinctions in lts.conf in regards to having one or more machines configured differently from all the others, that dynamic IP should be fine. Whatever works for you. --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Suggestions taken -- A success

2002-07-29 Thread John Karns
the support. Galeon - requires gnome (libs at least) The last two are the ones that I would take a close look at. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] booting x-terminal from cdrom

2002-07-29 Thread John Karns
) with DHCP on Linux to assign IP's to the w98 clients for quite some time w/ no problems. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net em

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How much bandwith is used by a client sessionwith LTSP?

2002-07-28 Thread John Karns
would be running. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http:/

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] hard drives & mice

2002-07-28 Thread John Karns
f I remember correctly) to point to the modified XF86Config. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkG

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Doing it he hard way

2002-07-25 Thread John Karns
custom systems. It sure beats me making it up every time :) Not sure what you mean exactly - are you referring to a HowTo, or an alternate pkg to install the software? ---- John Karns

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Access and Log problems

2002-07-25 Thread John Karns
ARAMS="-r -s my.dom.ain" # SYSLOGD_PARAMS="-r -s 192.168.10.0/192.168.10.255" John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest gr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SUSE 8.0 will not load workstation

2002-07-24 Thread John Karns
t try dhcp in place of bootp to see what happens. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] SUSE 8.0 will not load workstation

2002-07-23 Thread John Karns
usr/sbin/bootpd bootpd -c /tftpboot My problem was solved by disabling bootp. If for some reason you need both bootp and dhcp, then you'll have to figure out how to set things up so that they aren't simultaneously active. ---

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rtl8139 hangs on ltsp-3.0.1

2002-07-23 Thread John Karns
0, as your client machine may be unable to drive the 8139 at 100 mb/s. You can change the cfg using a Dos .exe which Realtek provides. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Conectiva 7.0/8.0 distr

2002-07-23 Thread John Karns
various cfg files so that it would conform to my existing IP scheme. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net email is spo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCP ... OK TFTP............ and nothing happens

2002-07-23 Thread John Karns
s wrong ??? There are undoubtedly several possibilites. I encountered a similar problem until I cleared up the tcpwrappers cfg. Check /etc/hosts.allow. After any changes, you would need to restart inetd. -------- John Karns

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Remote reboot (fwd)

2002-07-16 Thread John Karns
Forwarding to the list John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:03:42 +0100 From: Shane Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] New Mandrake 'Terminal Services' in Cooker

2002-07-16 Thread John Karns
/LTSP server. > > >> > > > > --- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing > real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! > http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim > _____

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] XDMCP overhead

2002-07-16 Thread John Karns
tty well running over a remote cxn. -------- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] segmentation fault

2002-07-16 Thread John Karns
ve never had success using 3.3.6 with a Blade3D in the past. I will be RTFM'ing this a.m. John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] segmentation fault

2002-07-15 Thread John Karns
idea is to try starting with a clean disk and installing 7.3 fresh. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net email is sponsored

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] segmentation fault

2002-07-15 Thread John Karns
55.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.1.23 ERROR! dhclient failed! Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! -------- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, John Karns said: > > &

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] segmentation fault

2002-07-12 Thread John Karns
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, John Karns said: > That's the part I wasn't sure about. Actually, I was thinking that the DC > perhaps was getting the dhclient binary which resides on the server and > executing it from within the LTSP environment, which uses a different set > of libr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Access LTSP server shares from W98 machine - how?

2002-07-11 Thread John Karns
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Bob Latham said: > In article > John Karns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Bob Latham said: > > > Presumeably the smb daemon is running on your server. > > service smb restart - works fine as far as I can tell. Does tha

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RTL8139 NIC

2002-07-11 Thread John Karns
ur machine has, some allow setting IRQ's to specific PCI slots. Also, set the BIOS to "non PnP OS" or its equivalent on your machine. If you boot from a DOS floppy ("Make boot disk" in W9x) then you can run rset8139.exe which is a DOS utility w

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] segmentation fault

2002-07-10 Thread John Karns
phics board. They > sometimes cost more, but ISA is in its twilight years... Indeed - for the implementation I'll be using a different type of client entirely. For the next step, I'll reverse the client with the server, as the 1st phase was more a "proof of concept" particu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Access LTSP server shares from W98 machine - how?

2002-07-09 Thread John Karns
docs for more info; it is pretty well covered there. Look for a file called passwords.txt John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DNS and NFS server

2002-07-09 Thread John Karns
I'm not sure what you mean by "the same screen", but as long as you got to a login screen, then it would seem that things are working. Changing the apprearance of the screen would be a metter of finding and tweaking the configuration file which specifies the graphic image

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] segmentation fault

2002-07-09 Thread John Karns
Although it's still disappointing because I do have a few of the P5A which I was thinking I could use as DC's later on. Thanks to all who responded. ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] segmentation fault

2002-07-07 Thread John Karns
o"; } === server IP is 192.168.1.23, and client is 192.168.1.31 John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --

[Ltsp-discuss] segmentation fault

2002-07-06 Thread John Karns
lution? Thanks much ---- John Karns[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Got root? We do. htt