I already followed this instruccions, but I'm still having a problem with "INIT_PASSWD", any sugestions?. thanks!.
********************************************************************* FROM:Jason Betchel DATE:08/09/2001 ********************************************************************** I too got this message after following the instructions posted at http://www.ltsp.org/contrib/LTSP_FLOPPY.html You have to do a little more than is in the docs. I've gotten it working and submitted my additions to Robert Stanford. He says he will be including them in his docs. In the meantime, here is what you need to do: 1) You have to create the floppy device on the workstation... cd /tftpboot/lts/ltsroot/dev ln -s ../tmp/fd0 cd ../etc vi rc.local -----------append to rc.local------------- #################################################### # # Start the floppy daemon # echo "Creating floppy device" mknod -m 0666 /tmp/fd0 b 2 0 echo "Starting nbd server" /ltsbin/ltsp_nbd & -----------append to rc.local------------- (I assume you found his tarball with the ltsp_nbd script.) Restart the workstation to use the new rc.local file. Your "INIT_PASSWD bad" problem should go away. 2) Fix gdm. Use this scripting in /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default instead of what is currently in the docs: # Check for remote floppy on LTSP workstation if [ -b $HOME/.dev/fd0 ]; then FLOPSTN=${DISPLAY%%:*} FLOPSTN=${DISPLAY%%.*} /usr/local/bin/nbd-client $FLOPSTN 1025 $HOME/.dev/fd0 & fi This alleviates the need to use the username to bind to the terminal. The DISPLAY variable contains all the information we need for that. I also used HOME instead of USER because a given user's home directory is not always /home/$USER and the HOME variable is available. It also only runs for users with the block device $HOME/.dev/fd0, so it discriminates based on user, but adapts to wherever they are logging in from! :) 3) How to access $HOME/.dev/fd0... I don't use Gnome or gmc, so my need for transparent access lays with mtools and MToolsFM (GUI for mtools). Here is the .mtoolsrc file that goes into a user's home directory to allow this to work: drive a: file="~/.dev/fd0" 1.44m mformat_only Mtools is designed to only work with DOS/FAT formatted floppies, but those are the kinds that users generally have. Once the .mtoolsrc file is in the user's home directory, it just works! Now here's the bad news: I can't figure out how to *stop* the nbd-clients! 'kill' and even 'kill -9' doesn't do it and I can't unload the nbd module either. You have to reboot to clear it. Until this is resolved it's not a complete solution. I've looked at the source code, but it's out of my league to debug this sort of thing. Mr. Stanford says that the nbd-client is stuck in an ioctl loop and that is why it cannot receive any signals. I'm inclined to believe him based on what I've seen in the source. Anyone want to take a whack at it? *********************************************************************** _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
