Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Commercial LTSP

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Marschall
I did not realize Sun Ray's are a dead end. Has Sun stated they will no longer produce them? Michael Marschall President Pipeline Networks 2385 Executive Center Drive Suite 100 Boca Raton, Florida 33431 Phone 561.962.2774 Cell 305.502.8959 On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, John McCreesh wrote: > I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Commercial LTSP

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Marschall
something like Citrix Metaframe it is highly suggested to turn off things such as screen savers. Michael Marschall President Pipeline Networks 2385 Executive Center Drive Suite 100 Boca Raton, Florida 33431 Phone 561.962.2774 Cell 305.502.8959 On 2 Jan 2003, Baeseman, Clifford wrote: > I do

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Commercial LTSP

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Marschall
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, John McCreesh wrote: > I don't know what the sales of the Cobalt Qube (now owned by Sun) are. > It's operating in a similar space. If Sun's marketing honchos had half a > brain they'd be doing an 'Office Qube' running LTSP, StarOffice, and > Samba to provide MS-Office in a box

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Commercial LTSP

2003-01-01 Thread Michael Marschall
viruses for all (web) users. > Most (of my) customers won't even consider Linux on the workstation > until an Office package comes along where at least the Wordprocessor > work and feels exactly like MS Word/Office. > Is that menu layout, and functionality proprietary to MS ?.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Commercial LTSP

2002-12-31 Thread Michael Marschall
s Linux; it's that thin client computing is still on the outside looking in. Microsoft has effectively marketed their way around thin client computing. Linux gaining significant market share in every aspect of computing is an inevitability. I believe Linux Terminal Server is a natural step

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sun ray as ltsp clients

2002-12-04 Thread Michael Marschall
Sun Ray's do not use X as their display protocol. They use a frame buffered display image sent from the server. It is lighter than X and allows for things such as session state management. I do not think they can be an X based client, whether with ltsp or without. Michael Marschall Pres

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Query: Session Management (~A La SunRay1) forLTSP?

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Marschall
Sun Ray's can do this with or without the Smart Cards. All session info is stored on the server. Michael On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Jim Wildman wrote: > You forgot a step. The SunRays (at least the ones I've seen) use a > smart card as ID. The information in the smart card is used to store > the se

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Failover and load balancing question....

2002-09-25 Thread Michael Marschall
With the exception that the users currently logged in to the server that goes down will lose their sessions, a reboot of the workstations should give a login prompt to the server that is left. Actually you will not need to reboot the workstations. Either the X server will stop and XDMCP will go o

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] libc6 for the clients

2002-09-25 Thread Michael Marschall
I have ltsp setup on a 333mhz P2 and 256MB of ram. My girlfriend and I use it simulteneously and the ram usage never gets above 110MB. Is it me or are people going RAM crazy? Michael On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi ! > > I have a really good working LTSP-solution running at h

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Windows Terminal Server

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Marschall
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, John Holbrook wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:10:42 +0200 > Mike Arends <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > try rdesktop on any Linux distribution. > > > > Works great and is for free of course... > > > > Cheers, > > > > Mike > > > > > But its not free!! > > If you're runn

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Windows terminal server

2002-07-25 Thread Michael Marschall
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Bhaskar S. Manda wrote: > > > At the moment we are running Windows terminal server client to access > terminal services running on Windows NT and 2000. I need a client to run on > SuSE linux and received and email about Winconnect from ThinSoft that will do > the job. On se

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NT users on LTSP

2002-07-25 Thread Michael Marschall
You can tlel the Samba server to forward all the authetication to a windows NT DC. So yes you can have one set of user accounts. Michael On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, David Leuser II wrote: > Hi all, > > Some 75% of our users (a lot of them) will be using both our Windows > NT/2000 domain machines and o

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive

2002-07-24 Thread Michael Marschall
It also avoids the situation where your system becomes more or less unuseable due to some log in /var filling up the filesystem. Michael On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Jim Wildman wrote: > The other important directory to have its own partition is /var. If a > machine crashes, there will be open files i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] A THOUGHT.....

2002-07-18 Thread Michael Marschall
Cool thanks. That is what I was missing. Michael On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Nigel Smith wrote: > On Thursday 18 July 2002 1:20 pm, Michael Marschall wrote: > > I keep seeing VNC as an alternative to X, but unless they haver changed > > something recently isn't VNC a one to one d

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] A THOUGHT.....

2002-07-18 Thread Michael Marschall
I keep seeing VNC as an alternative to X, but unless they haver changed something recently isn't VNC a one to one desktop tool (meaning only one person can run the desktop at on a server at any given time). To me t his is not an alternative for a distributed application setup. Michael On Thu, 18

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

2002-07-10 Thread Michael Marschall
:), but your symptoms are a common problem when encrypted paswords are not set and Win98 users cannot access shares. Michael On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Bob Latham wrote: > In article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Michael Marschall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You might wa

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

2002-07-09 Thread Michael Marschall
used to send passwords all over the network via clear text. You may think you know all your user and that none of them would do anything worng, but you never know. michael On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Bob Latham wrote: > In article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Michael Marschall <[

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

2002-07-08 Thread Michael Marschall
Set the passwords to be encrypted in the global section of your smb.conf. This will solve the problem. Michael On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Bob Latham wrote: > Hi, > > I've now got 2 works stations working with LTSP with printing and Open > Office. That may not sound much to you experts but to me it's g

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Application Publishing

2002-07-08 Thread Michael Marschall
e any software you have come across which is > very fast. > I have tried Xwin32 also. > > regards > Dinesh > > Michael Marschall wrote: > > > You do not need LTSP for this. The X Windows system was created to provide > > seemless network distribution of applicatio

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Application Publishing

2002-07-06 Thread Michael Marschall
The X Window system was made for what would equate to "Publishing" (Citrix's term for running a single application over an ICA session). All he must do is make sure that he has some kind of X Server software running on the windows machine and redirect the output of the application to it. The easie

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] StarOffice and TrueType fonts

2002-07-01 Thread Michael Marschall
I setup true type fonts with XFS and the script from this site: http://gongolo.usr.dsi.unimi.it/~vigna/webFonts4Linux/ The script will go out and automatically grab the true type fonts and install them to your machine/ Then it will add the proper line to your font path. No need to do anything f

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Michael Marschall
My suggestion for groupware is phpgroupware. It has just about everything you can want in a groupware suite. www.phpgroupware.org On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Mark Farey wrote: > > > Collaborative calendaring if really used, has a couple *nix > > solutions whcih are price competitive. But the Corel Wo

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Michael Marschall
To add a point. my clients load in no more than 30 seconds. michael On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, R P Herrold wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Lowe, Scott wrote: > > Hi Scott -- Russ Herrold here -- when I was an AAG on Ohio, > first in a line department regulating charitable > soliticacions, and them on C

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Strange StarOffice problems

2002-06-20 Thread Michael Marschall
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Ken Barber wrote: > The User Private Groups (UPG) scheme is unique to Red Hat, and IMO is a bit > ridiculous. I've never used them. > > It has been my practice to create groups that actually do something useful, > such as "faculty", "students", "finaid" and so on. This can

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP over Internet

2002-06-09 Thread Michael Marschall
Joey, It would be great if you could explain your setup for us a little more in-depth. It sounded like you got things working well enough to deploy. To know what you used and what you ran into along the way would go along way for many of us. That is if you do not mind taking the time. Michael O

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] configuring Mozilla

2002-06-06 Thread Michael Marschall
Why just turn on the spash screen option? /path/to/mozilla/mozilla -splash This will let the user know the browser is coming. Michael On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Darel Finkbeiner wrote: > Any hope of getting a copy of that script? > > > -Original Message- > From: Peter Billson [mailto:[EMAIL