Re: [Ltsp-discuss] HP t510 Thinclients with LTSP

2015-01-16 Thread Richard Doyle
On 01/16/2015 09:18 AM, Edgar Kogler wrote: Hi all, Has anybody experience with HP t510 Thinclients and LTSP ? I haven't used this specific model, but it uses VIA video chips, which perform poorly with LTSP (unless their drivers have improved in the past couple of years).

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] slow performance, where to start?

2014-11-07 Thread Richard Doyle
On 11/07/2014 12:23 PM, Mike Cammilleri wrote: So I've been experimenting with various hardware for our LTSP servers. Everything from VM's to this current Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 0 @ 2.30GHz (12 core) with ~48GB of RAM. (Dell Poweredge). Thin client is a Zotac ZboxSD13-ID13 with 4GB of

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] freezing problem on ubuntu 12.04 LTSP

2013-07-15 Thread Richard Doyle
Try setting LDM_DIRECTX=True in lts.conf (note spelling--it should be LDM_DIRECTX not LDM_DIRECX, if I recall correctly). I had bad results with VIA clients like yours. Low memory, bad video chips with worse drivers. Fortunately, I was able to replace them. On 07/15/2013 03:02 AM, Oğuz

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problem with iptables

2012-11-29 Thread Richard Doyle
On 11/28/2012 01:38 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: Hi, Is there anyone here who knows iptables? On our new LTSP server, I wanted to employ our old script to lock the classes from using the internet during lessons ;-) But now it fails with an error. The [antique == 2004] script reads as

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Question about accessing local media

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Doyle
On 10/22/2012 12:18 PM, Daniel Brockmann wrote: Hi, hmm, I am not succeeding: meszi@linux-termsrv:~$ lsmod This shows the modules loaded on the server, not a client. snip When trying to connect to the LTSP client's IP address with SSH I get... meszi@linux-termsrv:~$ ssh

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Problems mounting/unmounting USB flash drives

2012-10-11 Thread Richard Doyle
, Richard Doyle wrote: Local USB drives mount nicely on Edubuntu 7.04 thin clients. Plug it in, it shows up on the desktop, you can read and write files. All good, but I can't find any way to for a local, ordinary, user to unmount the device. You don't need to. After 2 seconds of inactivity

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Automatic USB Mount failing on fat client

2012-09-19 Thread Richard Doyle
On 09/12/2012 01:05 PM, Richard Doyle wrote: On 09/12/2012 08:42 AM, Alessandro Dentella wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 02:33:49PM -0700, Richard Doyle wrote: On 09/11/2012 12:50 PM, Alessandro Dentella wrote: Hi, I have an LTSP setup with fat client on Ubuntu 12.04. When I insert a USB

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Automatic USB Mount failing on fat client

2012-09-12 Thread Richard Doyle
On 09/12/2012 08:42 AM, Alessandro Dentella wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 02:33:49PM -0700, Richard Doyle wrote: On 09/11/2012 12:50 PM, Alessandro Dentella wrote: Hi, I have an LTSP setup with fat client on Ubuntu 12.04. When I insert a USB storage device the icon appears but the device

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client time

2012-09-11 Thread Richard Doyle
So, the silence means that client hardware clocks should be set to UTC. I'll try to figure out where the code went on my own. On 09/09/2012 11:12 AM, Richard Doyle wrote: In April 2011 a thread on this list indicated that the client time setting function is located in /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Automatic USB Mount failing on fat client

2012-09-11 Thread Richard Doyle
On 09/11/2012 12:50 PM, Alessandro Dentella wrote: Hi, I have an LTSP setup with fat client on Ubuntu 12.04. When I insert a USB storage device the icon appears but the device is not mounted. The user that is logged in belongs to 'plugdev' group and module fat is loaded. What else

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Client time

2012-09-11 Thread Richard Doyle
On 09/11/2012 04:15 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 11:12:55AM -0700, Richard Doyle wrote: In April 2011 a thread on this list indicated that the client time setting function is located in /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/ltsp/ltsp-init-common. However, that file no longer

[Ltsp-discuss] Client time

2012-09-09 Thread Richard Doyle
In April 2011 a thread on this list indicated that the client time setting function is located in /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/ltsp/ltsp-init-common. However, that file no longer contains time setting functions in my new Edubuntu 12.04 installation. The following month there was a discussion on IRC

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Incomplete shutdown on some clients (shutdown hangs/freezes)

2012-09-05 Thread Richard Doyle
On 09/05/2012 03:10 PM, John Hupp wrote: On the Lubuntu mail list, a poster on the equivalent thread (see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-users/2012-September/002356.html) reported that he solved the problem (presumably on a standalone desktop or on an LTSP server itself) by adding

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Choppy scrolling in Chromium on terminal

2012-08-12 Thread Richard Doyle
On 08/10/2012 05:46 PM, John Hupp wrote: With fully updated Lubuntu 12.04 on a server with an AMD 3400+ and 512MB, and a terminal with a PIII 600 MHz and 128MB, I find that the scrolling in Chromium 18 on the terminal is choppy. The same result on a terminal with Celeron 500 MHz and 196MB.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Need help with localapps on 12.04 Edubuntu

2012-08-10 Thread Richard Doyle
On 08/10/2012 03:26 PM, David Trask wrote: Hi all, Hope you can help. I have a single NIC install of Edubuntu. It's working as a normal terminal server, but I cannot seem to get localapps working correctly. I followed the directions on the Youtube video put out by the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Sound just broke on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric, LTSP 5.2.16-0ubuntu7

2012-06-13 Thread Richard Doyle
On 06/12/2012 11:28 PM, Philip Loewen wrote: This week I broke the sound system on my home LTSP network. Can anyone suggest repairs? Ubuntu LTSP relies on pulseaudio, which is not running on either the server or the thin clients (TCs). Trying pulseaudio -v on the TC gives lots of lines:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Life after Lucid

2012-05-03 Thread Richard Doyle
Many thanks to those who commented in this thread. I will test KIWI-LTSP, Edubuntu and Skolelinux this summer. On 05/01/2012 09:57 PM, Jigish Gohil wrote: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) jonat...@ubuntu.com wrote: I don't know much about openSUSE, so I can't

[Ltsp-discuss] Life after Lucid

2012-05-01 Thread Richard Doyle
Now that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is out, its time to consider moving on from our Edubuntu 10.04 setup. There are lots of distros that use LTSP, including: Edubuntu 12.04 (Ubuntu 12.04) Skolelinux 6.0.4 (Debian Squeeze) K12Linux EL6 (Fedora 14) KIWI-LTSP (openSUSE 12.1) I'll probably rebuild our

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] slow scrolling in chrome on ltsp

2012-03-28 Thread Richard Doyle
On 03/27/2012 03:14 PM, Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote: On 27.03.2012 16:18, Evan Ingram wrote: anyone else experienced slow laggy scrolling in chrome on ltsp? even on just simple text web pages. on the same thin client firefox runs with no lag when scrolling through even image heavy pages Yes,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 1 client work, 2 not

2011-05-05 Thread Richard Doyle
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 15:11 +0200, relosrl wrote: My dhcp.conf # # Default LTSP dhcpd.conf config file. # authoritative; subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.1.11 192.168.1.20; option domain-name ; option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.10;

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] firewall causes thin client not to boot

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Doyle
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 19:02 +0200, Krzysztof Paliga wrote: Hi, Im wondering why with the following firewall rule the thin client refuses to boot: iptables -A OUTPUT -d 192.168.0.0/16 -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.0.0/16 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slow FireFox Solutions?

2009-10-08 Thread Richard Doyle
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 12:57 -0400, Anthony Luscre wrote: As we start the school year the Internet access has been painfully slow on our 3 LTSP setups (1- Fedora 9, 1 Fedora 11 and 1 Edubuntu 9) Firefox continuously hangs or will not load saying it has already loaded. Everything works fine

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] remote shutdown of a TC through ssh

2009-09-02 Thread Richard Doyle
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 00:54 +0200, SZABO Zsolt wrote: I am trying to write a script that shut down the (given set of) thin clients (TC). Therefore, I have installed openssh-server in ltsp-chroot, and I am able to ssh to a TC from the server and shut the TC down. So, what should such a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Is it time for LTSP-lite?

2009-02-26 Thread Richard Doyle
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 12:52 -0800, john wrote: Hi all, One of the reasons I originally found LTSP compelling was the modest specs required of the thin clients. Lately I've been feeling like my flavor of Linux/LTSP (ubuntu) has entered the same kind of systems requirement arms-race that I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 Ubuntu and Server hardening

2008-10-16 Thread Richard Doyle
On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 10:58 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, jam wrote: Security through complexity is dumb and ends up biting you: Security by obscurity will probably work against brute force ssh worms, but is less likely to work where there is a determined

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 5 Ubuntu and Server hardening

2008-10-15 Thread Richard Doyle
On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 08:54 +0800, jam wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2008 07:19:04 ltsp-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I don't see the benefit to have an additional SSH server by default running... if your network isn't firewalled, you've got a lot more to worry about than

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Having LTSP success

2008-09-16 Thread Richard Doyle
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 08:28 +0300, Asmo Koskinen wrote: Daniel Thompson kirjoitti: The only issue we're hoping gets fixed in sound over the internet. We can get sound from downloaded audio or video files, but not from youtube, revver, revision3 and like. Install from universe

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Crossover Office licensing (Richard Doyle)

2008-05-07 Thread Richard Doyle
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:09 +0800, jam wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:08 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're considering using Crossover Linux Professional in our small (18 workstations) Edubuntu 7.04 (based on LTSP 5) classroom system. The workstations are all thin clients;

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Crossover Office licensing (Richard Doyle)

2008-05-06 Thread Richard Doyle
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 08:30 +0800, jam wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 12:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're considering using Crossover Linux Professional in our small (18 workstations) Edubuntu 7.04 (based on LTSP 5) classroom system. The workstations are all thin clients; all

[Ltsp-discuss] Crossover Office licensing

2008-05-05 Thread Richard Doyle
We're considering using Crossover Linux Professional in our small (18 workstations) Edubuntu 7.04 (based on LTSP 5) classroom system. The workstations are all thin clients; all applications run on the server. How many Crossover licenses would we need to purchase to support all 18 workstations?

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Track and control user bandwidth on LTSP server with 200+ users?

2008-03-13 Thread Richard Doyle
is a pretty high level concept for IP-oriented tools like iptraf. Hope somebody can prove me wrong... On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Richard Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 08:00 -0700, Royce Souther wrote: I think someone or some program on my LTSP

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP5 documentation

2008-01-16 Thread Richard Doyle
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 13:12 +, Gavin McCullagh wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Oliver Grawert wrote: finally the export of the edubuntu handbook with the latest up to date ltsp5 (ubuntu gutsy) documentation worked, it can now be found under:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Sabayon (was: Can no longer login in LTSP-5)

2007-11-13 Thread Richard Doyle
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 10:11 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: Forgot to look in .xsession-errors. I couldn't believe login would fail without some error logged someplace. Xsession: X session started for moseley at Tue Nov 13 09:45:16 PST 2007 No profile for user 'moseley' found = BEGIN