[Ltsp-discuss] OOPS Re: ltspfs - $DISPLAY is blank; anybody got a quick hint?

2006-10-18 Thread Krishna Murphy
s the Knoppix setup. -Krishna On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Krishna Murphy wrote: FYI, I now have an icon for partition 2 (which is NTFS) and it's there, but it was unable to recognize the partition type for partition 4 (extended), puts an icon for it on the desktop and ignores the partition 5

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltspfs - $DISPLAY is blank; anybody got a quick hint?

2006-10-18 Thread Krishna Murphy
a On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Krishna Murphy wrote: Jim- I was using an xterm. Since then, I have moved to a new workstation and made a new dhcpd.conf entry for it; I now have the right value in $DISPLAY - but still it doesn't work. I just installed the package from: http://ltsp.mirrors.tds.ne

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltspfs - $DISPLAY is blank; anybody got a quick hint?

2006-10-18 Thread Krishna Murphy
6.deb and I'm hopeful that will do the trick. I really need to get this drive mounted and ~200 GB of data moved to the server... -Krishna On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Jim McQuillan wrote: Krishna Murphy wrote: > Well, someone reconfigured the server and killed FUSE, among other things. &g

[Ltsp-discuss] ltspfs - $DISPLAY is blank; anybody got a quick hint?

2006-10-17 Thread Krishna Murphy
Well, someone reconfigured the server and killed FUSE, among other things. I reinstalled that, got the fuse group back as it was, but I'm hoping for a clue from the group as to what needs doing to get the $DISPLAY set right. -Krishna -

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCP conflict question

2006-09-07 Thread Krishna Murphy
Dear All: Interesting discussion! Thanks for the food for thought. My $0.02 worth is inserted below... Yours Truly! Krishna On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Cristi Mitrana wrote: > On 9/7/06, Fred Clewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, I'm a LTSP and DHCP noob, and need to understand how I shoul

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Kernal panic during boot

2006-08-22 Thread Krishna Murphy
Steve- I recommend you isolate the LTSP network again; shielding it with a small router that has internal DHCP, set to disabled, will most likely do it. Then you can reach your other systems (e.g. file storage servers) without having DHCP battles. You won't be able to get LTSP going without its

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Replacement for Windows 2000 server

2006-08-14 Thread Krishna Murphy
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Ken Cobler wrote: > Krishna Murphy wrote: >> Devraj, Ken, et. al.- >> >> I have the same challenge, but I'm utterly confident that QuickBooks will >> NOT run under Wine - or any other such program. So I'm preparing to >> install Win

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Replacement for Windows 2000 server

2006-08-13 Thread Krishna Murphy
Devraj, Ken, et. al.- I have the same challenge, but I'm utterly confident that QuickBooks will NOT run under Wine - or any other such program. So I'm preparing to install Windows Server 2003 as a virtual machine, then QB on it. My plan is to allow LTSP users, and perhaps other LAN clients, to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server lockup

2006-08-10 Thread Krishna Murphy
Joe- I noticed that you have IP set to 100.100.100.254, which is a public address; seems like it might have been intended to be 10.100.100.254 in the private b-class space. Maybe it's trying to reach out to someone's address out there in the "real world"... -Krishna On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Joe A

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Term-150 Static IP

2006-08-10 Thread Krishna Murphy
You can assign the SAME address every time; see the wiki for how to use the configuration where it recognizes the MAC address and sets the parameters (screen size, video driver, IP address) identically on every boot cycle. -Krishna On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jim McQuillan wrote: On Wed, August 9, 2

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] keyboard Option "AutoRepeat"

2006-07-22 Thread Krishna Murphy
Have you tried more than one keyboard? Sometimes one will not work in a particular system for no especially good reason... -Krishna On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Gentgeen wrote: On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 15:49:59 -0400 Gentgeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, I found an updated BIOS for my system. I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp on a system with 10 486s and a P4 1500 as server

2006-07-20 Thread Krishna Murphy
Sudev- I think that's the consensus; besides, with terminal hardware selling for ~$5 on eBay, it's not worth messing with systems that old. -Krishna On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Sudev Barar wrote: > On Wed, July 19, 2006 5:21 am, Andrea Reale wrote: > > Hi all, > > For my first message on this mailing

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DHCP conflict

2006-07-18 Thread Krishna Murphy
ement out so it does not conflict with the "use-host-decl-names on;" statement required for the MAC- based entries. Thanks for your help! -Krishna On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: Am Montag, den 17.07.2006, 10:54 -0400 schrieb Krishna Murphy: >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] mounting FS

2006-07-17 Thread Krishna Murphy
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: Am Montag, den 17.07.2006, 16:15 -0400 schrieb Krishna Murphy: > Anselm- > > I've had success in some (not necessarily all) situations running two DHCP > servers with one handing IPs to general-purpose PCs in one range (>

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] mounting FS

2006-07-17 Thread Krishna Murphy
Anselm- I've had success in some (not necessarily all) situations running two DHCP servers with one handing IPs to general-purpose PCs in one range (>.99 in the subnet 192.168.1) and the other recognizing specific MAC addresses and giving back a specific host name's IP (<.100 and thus preparing

[Ltsp-discuss] DHCP conflict

2006-07-17 Thread Krishna Murphy
Hey- It appears that I need to have two DHCP servers running on one sub-net. Apparently this causes a conflict with one in particular (inside a router provided by an ISP) and the DHCP3 server under Debian that I'm using to identify the workstations (using "use-host-decl-names on;" to make it so

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

2006-07-17 Thread Krishna Murphy
Chris- Is that image placed somewhere on the web such that others can find and download it? I think that would be a nice contribution if you you can do it! -Krishna On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Chris Fanning wrote: Hi Krishna, > Is there a big disadvantage to running the SERVER in a vmware environme

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] PulseAudio

2006-07-14 Thread Krishna Murphy
Hey- Does NAS not work with LTSP, then? -Krishna On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Petre Scheie wrote: Scott Balneaves wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:19:06PM +0300, Veli-Matti Lintu wrote: >> pe, 2006-07-14 kello 09:57 -0500, Scott Balneaves kirjoitti: >> >> Hello, >> >>> The problem is, ESD itself ca

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

2006-07-14 Thread Krishna Murphy
FYI-- I downloaded the vmware server (complete), and signed up for 100 free license numbers - that was all easy. Now, installing it under Winders... Using XP Pro 2002 (SP2), a 1.9 GHz Pentium-4 and 1.5 GB RAM: 1) Be prepared to WAIT - it's a big download (15 minutes over a T-1, given the rest

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

2006-07-14 Thread Krishna Murphy
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. There are of course some penalties for using anything that way, but having ALL

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] pxe boot problem

2006-07-13 Thread Krishna Murphy
Metal Gear- I see "get-lease-hostnames" in there, along with MAC addresses and fixed IP addresses being assigned to those particular machines. I think you might want to try "use-host-decl-names" - which is not compatible with "get-lease-hostnames", from what I've seen on the wiki. -Krishna O

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] local dev - fusermount problem

2006-07-12 Thread Krishna Murphy
Ty- Check the ownership and permissions on /dev/fuse -- see the discussion at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ltsp-discuss&m=115068567409004&w=2 There are other things that can go wrong, but that's a biggee... -Krishna On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Ty Debelser wrote: > I am new to the list. Thanks Ji

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] server

2006-07-12 Thread Krishna Murphy
Edd- If it was me, I'd opt for the RAM, or a dual-core Opteron if you can afford it. The RAID would only give you a crash-survival ability; at that level, you don't get the extra speed of RAID-5 and you lose ALL the extra space on the second drive (rather than only a third of it.) -Krishna On

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] dosemu as local apps?

2006-07-10 Thread Krishna Murphy
Kemas- I'm planning to use virtual machines on the server where LTSP is being served (my "big gun" server) to do things that I've worked on in another environment. See the Linux Journal lead article from April or May for a summary of many of the options. Don't know if that would serve your pur

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] system halts

2006-07-09 Thread Krishna Murphy
Edd- Check your X config; I think that's where it starts your X session. Alternatively, try changing the SCREEN_01 = to say "shell" and debug at the client command line. -Krishna On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Edrich de Lange wrote: Hi ive now gotten a test server running, and I seem to be stuck my cli

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] testing email

2006-07-09 Thread Krishna Murphy
Damien- It worked. -Krishna On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Damien Hull wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to mak

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Source Thinclient / MiniPC

2006-07-06 Thread Krishna Murphy
Yep, that's it. On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Ben Green wrote: On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:48:34 +0100, Krishna Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Edrich- > Have you looked at http://thinstation.org/ for the Linux? There's also a > Linux boot project that may be of some us

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Open Source Thinclient / MiniPC

2006-07-06 Thread Krishna Murphy
Edrich- Have you looked at http://thinstation.org/ for the Linux? There's also a Linux boot project that may be of some use (name escapes me, maybe linboot or something like that.) What specifically are you looking for as far as design assistance? -Krishna On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Edrich de Lange

[Ltsp-discuss] Virtual users?

2006-07-03 Thread Krishna Murphy
Hey- I think I saw a posting or an FAQ (or something) that said one could use virtual users (e.g. those associated with a mail server) instead of "real" linux users for purposes of logging in to LTSP, tracking a home directory, and all the rest. Anybody got a hot tip on how to use an existing M

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltspfs, local dev and nx

2006-07-02 Thread Krishna Murphy
Scott, et. al.- Could you recommend where to look in the source for LocalDev stuff? Especially as it relates to the lts.conf file? -Krishna On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Scott Balneaves wrote: On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 01:06:26PM +0200, Frank Bergmann wrote: > Local dev with ltspfs is working for us very

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltspfs, local dev and nx

2006-07-02 Thread Krishna Murphy
Frank, et. al.- 1) How can one tell if xdmcp is being used? I think I am, but... 2) Do you have any local hard drives, and if so, how are they specified? -Krishna On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Frank Bergmann wrote: Local dev with ltspfs is working for us very well if the clients are connected to the serv

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Hardware

2006-06-29 Thread Krishna Murphy
> Alfred Nutile wrote: >> What if it only shows ws001 and not the :0? I am having some trouble >> getting KDM to recognize each terminal and apply per terminal log in >> settings as you mentioned on another site. >> Thought this may be why? >> > > if 'echo $DISPLAY' is showing just 'ws001', withou

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Black screen

2006-06-29 Thread Krishna Murphy
ction. > It sounds like the terminal doesn't know it's own hostname. I doubt you can check this - no shell to type in a command at. > Tried that too > Also i'v haded the computer name and ip to /etc/hosts Do you mean /etc/hosts.allow? That's the place to do that, AFAI

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Black screen

2006-06-29 Thread Krishna Murphy
Daniel- Have you got 10.0.150.47 assigned to a workstation in your dhcpd.conf? That wkstn would then have a section in your lts.conf - but it looks like it's not getting that far, you're unable to nfs-mount the /opt/ltsp/i386 directory where the wkstn gets all its' goodies. -Krishna On Thu, 2

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] parser bug in 4.2 up1

2006-06-26 Thread Krishna Murphy
Dan, Jim, et. al: I also have noted these two(?) things. Hope that can addressed! -Krishna On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Daniel Mealha Cabrita wrote: hi Jim, folks.. Apparently there's a bug in the parser routines (etc/lts.conf). I've experienced random problems while booting the terminals wh

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Is there a boot up log?

2006-06-24 Thread Krishna Murphy
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jim McQuillan wrote: > Look at your /etc/init.d/sysklogd script, and see how it handles options. > for Ubuntu and debian systems, there's a line that starts with 'SYSLOGD=' > and the options follow it. And, there's a comment above, showing how to > turn on remote logging. > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] No login prompt with graphical interface

2006-06-24 Thread Krishna Murphy
Vidya- Not sure which blue screen you mean - surely not the blue "Windows screen of death!" Are you sure it's booting off a known good floppy with the proper configuration for that system? -Krishna On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Vidyaratha Kissoon wrote: Hi all I am using ltsp 4.0 on Mandriva 2005, all

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Is there a way to centralize firefox settings?

2006-06-23 Thread Krishna Murphy
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, David Heinzerling wrote: > Plugins should be global by default. For settings, you can alter the > prefs.js file for the default profile--though it will get overwritten on > updates. On fedora and suse it is located at > /usr/lib/firefox/defaults/profile FYI- /usr/share/fir

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] rootpassword for client??

2006-06-22 Thread Krishna Murphy
Dear SoNicx: When I go to the clients' command line and try to set the password, it doesn't know what "passwd" means. When I needed this for earlier debugging usage, no one ever mentioned any such possibility - either in the list or the online chat - so I think it's not set up to do that. I won

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] X-fonts trouble? YES!

2006-06-21 Thread Krishna Murphy
Jun 2006, Krishna Murphy wrote: All- I'm having trouble with Emacs21 finding its' fonts, which causes the error message (for instance) "Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct" and makes the stuff I'm

[Ltsp-discuss] X-fonts trouble?

2006-06-21 Thread Krishna Murphy
All- I'm having trouble with Emacs21 finding its' fonts, which causes the error message (for instance) "Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct" and makes the stuff I'm editing into empty rectangles. The stuff I've found researching

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] i need help

2006-06-21 Thread Krishna Murphy
Dear Kid: In your lts.conf you've got ws001 instead of ws100 (which what your log file indicates it should be), for one thing. -Krishna On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Linux Kid wrote: Dear all folks I am using ltsp on RHEL#4. ES. my video card configuration is cat /etc/sysconfig/hwconf |grep VIDEO --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] STARTX and RDESKTOP, Defaulting to RDESKTOP

2006-06-21 Thread Krishna Murphy
Paul- Try putting the cursor in front of the "rdesktop..." and hitting enter, then putting in shell for that entry, and finally making a SCREEN_03 = line for the rdesktop entry. If it then defaults to rdesktop, we'll know it's likely something about that, but if it defaults to #2 again... I hav

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] chipset / VGA for terminal server JKJK

2006-06-21 Thread Krishna Murphy
Jan- I recommend AGAINST using the server for a terminal - not because it can't be done, but SO many others with years of experience in the field are so emphatic about it. You can get a nice terminal-serving system (the client, not the server) out of virtually any old PC handy, or pick up somet

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Is there a boot up log?

2006-06-19 Thread Krishna Murphy
I am a bit confused as to why the same syslog setup for under fc5 does not work for FC4 Under ltsp 4.1/FC4 I get no dmesg type output, while with ltsp4.2/FC5, I do. Any hints? Thanks in advance! Jim McQuillan wrote: > On Mon, June 19, 2006 10:23 am, Krishna Murphy wrote: > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Is there any limitation for display resolution using LTSP?

2006-06-19 Thread Krishna Murphy
Radek- Try copying down the modelines used (from the X log file) when it's booted to local Linux; I'm sure I saw something that said you could supply them directly in LTSP, rather than depending on the driver and config settings to calculate them. -Krishna On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Rados?aw Burszt

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Is there a boot up log?

2006-06-19 Thread Krishna Murphy
distro seems to have a different place to specify that option. > > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sat, June 17, 2006 11:41 pm, Krishna Murphy wrote: > > Hey- > > > > I've poked around a good bit on the local system and not found what I'm > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp 4.2 fuse and ldap (FIXED!)

2006-06-18 Thread Krishna Murphy
"' >/etc/udev/rules.d/45-fuse.rules For Fedora and CentOS, I believe it would be the same rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/40-fuse.rules - but that's not tested by me. -Krishna On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Krishna Murphy wrote: John- I'm having some similar trouble, and I've come

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] xserver problems on FC5

2006-06-17 Thread Krishna Murphy
David- Not sure about this, but it looks like the X stuff in LTSP changed between 3.0 and 4.2, and your modeline isn't what it needs any more. If you can somehow boot a Knoppix or Ubuntu live disk on crow-apm, take a look at what it puts in X logfile and see if you can apply that to this situat

[Ltsp-discuss] PS Re: Second Login problem... developments!

2006-06-17 Thread Krishna Murphy
wrong for me, now, but I have to stop everything else if I'm going to fix it, and it's not worth it yet. -Krishna On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Krishna Murphy wrote: Tim- I had noted the same difference on my setup, but making that change didn't do any good. I since switched it back, an

[Ltsp-discuss] Is there a boot up log?

2006-06-17 Thread Krishna Murphy
Hey- I've poked around a good bit on the local system and not found what I'm looking for (the stuff that goes flying by when the workstation is in the process of booting up.) Anybody know where to direct me to find the dmesg- equivalent file? I've seen some interesting-looking stuff there, and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] pxe hangs on "Uncompressing Linux..., Ok, booting the kernel."

2006-06-17 Thread Krishna Murphy
Hey- I don't think anyone will be able to help much with the information provided so far. Perhaps you could start with a copy of your entire dhcp.conf and some additional detail about the workstation (especially what LAN card/chip is used, etc.) -Krishna On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Metal Gear wrote:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] dhcp query (Krishna Murphy)

2006-06-17 Thread Krishna Murphy
Jim- You're right, there was a "range" statement left over in my dhcp.conf from the past when I was (unwisely) doing DHCP with both a pool of addresses and specific MAC addresses. I had picked up on the need to comment out the "get-lease-hostnames true;" line when using "use-host-dec

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problems using both startx and rdesktop

2006-06-17 Thread Krishna Murphy
Stefan- I have M7VIG-400 motherboard with a VIA chipset video up as a terminal on LTSP-4.2, and it took not only specifying the VIA driver, but also setting limits on sync rates (based on my monitor's capacity) to force correct calculation of the "modelines". I think that driver's a little bugg

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Second Login problem... developments!

2006-06-17 Thread Krishna Murphy
Tim- I had noted the same difference on my setup, but making that change didn't do any good. I since switched it back, and as you said, "it just decided to work" when I made the change to a different version of FUSE. It does seem like the switch to a local terminal helps - watching the response

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Second Login problem... developments!

2006-06-16 Thread Krishna Murphy
FYI- I had many similar problems on my setup here. It's working pretty well now so I thought I'd summarize what I found, for what it's worth. 1) I'm running Debian stable on the server, and LTSP 4.2. 2) Did everything on the check list at: http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LTSP-42-LocalD

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] dhcp query

2006-06-16 Thread Krishna Murphy
FYI, my router will do that if the DHCP server on the server doesn't give it an address first. But I'm pretty sure my setup is similar to Joey's and I have seen addresses assigned that were not specified in the dhcpd.conf. -Krishna On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Jim McQuillan wrote: Joey, There's nothi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDA problem observation

2006-06-14 Thread Krishna Murphy
I take it back! When I logged in and tried it again, suddenly I had the device showing on my desktop. Not that I hadn't tried that before, as a means of getting changes to "take" - but maybe it's a third time=charmed. -Krishna On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Krishna Murphy wrote: Sco

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LDA problem observation

2006-06-14 Thread Krishna Murphy
Scott, et. al.: I have the same problem on the FIRST attempt to use a device. I plug in a USB key, look in the (wkstn) /etc/fstab/ and see it mounted as a SCSI device: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /tmp/drives/Removable_Device_483_Mb auto rw,noatime 0 0 It's also there as a CD drive,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LBE and kernel/initrd

2006-06-06 Thread Krishna Murphy
Alistair- The most important part of the terminal (for initial booting purposes) is the NIC; what hardware is in it? What options are in the bios, if any is there (since it apparently runs NT locally)? -Krishna On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Alistair Crust wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 07:50 -0400, [EMAI

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LBE and kernel/initrd

2006-06-06 Thread Krishna Murphy
Alistair- I have a Geode 1750 processor on a M7VIG-400 motherboard, which has PXE boot options. I had a bit of trouble getting it going. What I had to do, mainly, was set some X parameters for the video. What motherboard/video are you using? -Krishna On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Alistair Crust wrote:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-03 Thread Krishna Murphy
As I mentioned elsewhere, I was mistaken - this was 10.0, not 10.1. On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 June 2006 23:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I hired a fellow to help me when I started this project who had been > successful at installing LTSP (and a LOT of other thing

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Krishna Murphy
at we have been able to easily integrate it in. -Paul -- Paul VanGundy Director of Information Technology Epping School District P: 603.679.5472 F: 603.679.2966 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #398783 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSPFS - still bunged up!

2006-06-02 Thread Krishna Murphy
1 May 2006, Krishna Murphy wrote: In addition to the ownership trouble, and more importantly, is the fact that even when the ownership is root.fuse with 660 permissions - it still fails to work! In fact, the problem greatly resembles that described in the post (unfortunately, without solution) at:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Krishna Murphy
Scott- I'm with you, that's a pretty exciting project to be part of; maybe I'll have something to contribute someday. Meanwhile, much as it pains me to say so, LTSPFS is still not working for me. I went through all the check- points in the wiki, no cigar. I'm thinking maybe it's time to rip it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Krishna Murphy
Hear, Hear! On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Andrew & Gabrielle wrote: But then again, I won't even try to use BSD because they have demons for their mascot, even though I have heard a lot of good things about it, and would otherwise actually like to try it. This is what they say about it, (http://www

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Krishna Murphy
Hey- I'm looking at a situation in W. Africa where I think LTSP might be a good fit for their needs. Ubuntu sounds like a good way to go for desktop stuff - but I've heard concerns about using it as the server. What's the general concensus, if any? -Krishna On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Gudmund Areskou

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-02 Thread Krishna Murphy
Oops - It was SuSE 10.0, not 10.1; I understand there were some problems with that one from the thread, earlier. On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Dave Cotton wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 00:57 -0400, Krishna Murphy wrote: > Dave- > > I hired a fellow to help me when I started this project who

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-01 Thread Krishna Murphy
Dave- I hired a fellow to help me when I started this project who had been successful at installing LTSP (and a LOT of other things!) previously, and I trust his instincts. He found the SuSE package manager cumbersome, and the LTSP install didn't work; after a good long while of fiddling, there

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What distribution should I use?

2006-06-01 Thread Krishna Murphy
FYI, I had enough trouble with SuSE 10.1 that I wiped the system clean and started over with Debian stable. It's not perfect, either, but there were enough troubles with SuSE to make it worth changing over. The hardware is a quad-core 2GHz Opteron system with 1GB RAM/core and 1TB of RAID-5 SATA

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp 4.2 fuse and ldap

2006-06-01 Thread Krishna Murphy
John- I'm having some similar trouble, and I've come to suspect the "udev rules" for fuse need to be revised on my system. Can you post your set somehow? It is a fairly complicated system/setup, and I'm not sure where mine are wrong, but I get a /dev/fuse that is owned by root.root instead of

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] i810 X crashes on startup

2006-06-01 Thread Krishna Murphy
___ On Tue, 30 May 2006, Phil Davey wrote: On Mon, 29 May 2006, Krishna Murphy wrote: > Anyway, I saw that it was calculating the requested resolution (800x600) > modeline incorrectly, indeed 85.1 Hz as detected. So I commented out the first > two

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSPFS - still bunged up!

2006-05-31 Thread Krishna Murphy
://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ltsp-discuss&m=114480371431047&w=4 -Krishna On Wed, 31 May 2006, Krishna Murphy wrote: root.root On Wed, 31 May 2006, Jim McQuillan wrote: Krishna Murphy wrote: News: Well, I got everything (non-LTSPFS) working again, and met all of the requirements in the troubleshooting

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSPFS - still bunged up!

2006-05-31 Thread Krishna Murphy
root.root On Wed, 31 May 2006, Jim McQuillan wrote: Krishna Murphy wrote: > News: > > Well, I got everything (non-LTSPFS) working again, and met all of the > requirements in the troubleshooting section of > http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LTSP-42-LocalDev > and I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSPFS - still bunged up!

2006-05-30 Thread Krishna Murphy
con fails when I try to open it. Anybody got ideas? -Krishna On Tue, 30 May 2006, Krishna Murphy wrote: Okay, here's the followup report. I do get an icon on the desktop now for my legacy cd (when I insert a disk), but Konqueror shows it to be empty. The web browsers Firefox and Epiphany, plus

PS Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSPFS - how?

2006-05-30 Thread Krishna Murphy
again! -Krishna On Tue, 30 May 2006, Krishna Murphy wrote: Scott- Thanks! I seem not to have the FUSE module, despite having kernels (2.6.16.1-ltsp-2 and 2.6.16.14) with greater numeric designation than the one where FUSE was supposedly incorporated. I'm using Debian Sarge, so it may be

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSPFS - how?

2006-05-30 Thread Krishna Murphy
On Tue, 30 May 2006, Krishna Murphy wrote: Scott- Thanks! I seem not to have the FUSE module, despite having kernels (2.6.16.1-ltsp-2 and 2.6.16.14) with greater numeric designation than the one where FUSE was supposedly incorporated. I'm using Debian Sarge, so it may be that I need to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSPFS - how?

2006-05-30 Thread Krishna Murphy
rom incompatible pointer type /usr/src/modules/fuse/kernel/dir.c:1047: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type Anybody got a tip as to what I flubbed? -Krishna On Tue, 30 May 2006, Scott Balneaves wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:57:34AM -0400, Krishna Murphy wrote: Greeting

Re: PS Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Drives and video trouble

2006-05-30 Thread Krishna Murphy
Phil- Thanks! That helped. Is there a central repository[!] of the things one can specify in the lts.conf which I can consult? -Krishna On Tue, 30 May 2006, Phil Davey wrote: On Mon, 29 May 2006, Krishna Murphy wrote: > Anyway, I saw that it was calculating the requested resolution (800x

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSPFS - how?

2006-05-29 Thread Krishna Murphy
Greetings- I'm attempting to use the LTSPFS (built-in, they say, to ltsp4.2) from the discussion at: http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LtspFS I'm running a later kernel than required (on both terminal and server, so I should have the FUSE package for sure) and I think I should be in the

PS- again! Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Drives and video trouble

2006-05-29 Thread Krishna Murphy
ult mode "720x400": 35.5 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 37.9 kHz, 85.0 Hz (II) VIA(0): Modeline "720x400" 35.50 720 756 828 936 400 401 404 446 -hsync +vsync (**) VIA(0): Default mode "640x400": 31.5 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 37.9 kHz, 85.1 Hz (II) VIA(0): Modelin

PS Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Drives and video trouble

2006-05-29 Thread Krishna Murphy
e moment. If only I could get the Local Drives and sound to work now... -Krishna On Sun, 28 May 2006, Krishna Murphy wrote: Pete- That line is in the section for my workstation. The monitor is working correctly in all other uses, e.g. when I get on using VESA or another OS - and none o

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp 4.2 doesn't want to boot

2006-05-29 Thread Krishna Murphy
Stephan- I think the trouble may be something from your prior installation of LTSP - I am using version 4.2 (having never had an earlier version up) with the VIA Rhine II as the client's interface chip (it's a VT6103, though.) Do you have another interface card you could try? If it worked that

PS Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Migration to LTSP 4.2: don't read [Default] section

2006-05-28 Thread Krishna Murphy
2006, Krishna Murphy wrote: Denis- Mine shows the same thing with ltsp4.2, every time I reboot or restart the dhcp3 daemon. I think it's normal, correct behaviour. -Krishna On Sun, 28 May 2006, DenisG wrote: Peter Billson a écrit : > Denis, > Did you change your dhcpd.conf f

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Migration to LTSP 4.2: don't read [Default] section

2006-05-28 Thread Krishna Murphy
Denis- Mine shows the same thing with ltsp4.2, every time I reboot or restart the dhcp3 daemon. I think it's normal, correct behaviour. -Krishna On Sun, 28 May 2006, DenisG wrote: Peter Billson a écrit : > Denis, > Did you change your dhcpd.conf file so that root points to the 4.2 directory

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Drives and video trouble

2006-05-28 Thread Krishna Murphy
Pete- That line is in the section for my workstation. The monitor is working correctly in all other uses, e.g. when I get on using VESA or another OS - and none of my modes should be producing a vertical rate > 85 Hz, they're all less than 80. -Krishna On Sun, 28 May 2006, Peter Billson wrote

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Drives and video trouble

2006-05-28 Thread Krishna Murphy
hardware ethernet00:16:ec:1d:6c:49; > fixed-address 192.168.1.79; > } > > There are other parameters that can be added, but this will get you started. > > Petre > > Krishna Murphy wrote: > > > Dear Sudev: > > > > Than

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Drives and video trouble

2006-05-27 Thread Krishna Murphy
7 May 2006, Petre Scheie wrote: Put this in /etc/dhcpd.conf and then restart dhcpd: host ws079 { hardware ethernet00:16:ec:1d:6c:49; fixed-address 192.168.1.79; } There are other parameters that can be added, but this will get you started. Petre Krishna Murphy wrote:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Drives and video trouble

2006-05-27 Thread Krishna Murphy
, Krishna Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim- > > Thanks! I'll put some ***s before my responses, below. > > -Krishna > Krishna an inline bottom posting would work much better ;-) > I'm guessing that the specific workstation doesn't know it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Local Drives and video trouble

2006-05-26 Thread Krishna Murphy
Jim- Thanks! I'll put some ***s before my responses, below. -Krishna I'm guessing that the specific workstation doesn't know it's own hostname. Or, it doesn't match what you've put in [] in the lts.conf file. ***The logs on the server show that ws079 is getting logged in (see dhcpd.conf)

[Ltsp-discuss] Local Drives and video trouble

2006-05-26 Thread Krishna Murphy
Hey, everyone- I have LTSP-4.2 set up and running on a quad-core AMD Opteron (2GHz) server with 1GB RAM per core. The base OS is Debian, and I've upgraded Firefox to version 1.5.0.3 (32-bit.) I have checked the stuff out on the wiki at: http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LTSP-42-LocalDe