Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP fat client with LDAP authentication

2014-12-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 09:40:29PM +0100, Ivan Mincik wrote: > On 29.12.2014 15:18, andrea biancalana wrote: > > it seems Lightdm doesn't authenticate vs LDAP server; may be you > > have to use gdm or kdm. > > Andrea, thanks for this note. I am currently using Lightdm on a Debian system, and it a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Two versions of LTSP on one server

2014-12-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:11:16AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:37:34AM +0100, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I would like to have an LTSP 5 alongside with an LTSP 4.2 on the same > > server. Long time ago, I had this running.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Two versions of LTSP on one server

2014-12-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:37:34AM +0100, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > Hi folks, > > I would like to have an LTSP 5 alongside with an LTSP 4.2 on the same > server. Long time ago, I had this running. But I do not remember every > detail, and answers in the net are either outdated or too unfocused

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] problems with lightdm/Xubuntu and LDAP

2013-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 05:13:46PM -0400, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > Hey all, > > Over the summer, I decided to switch to Xfce for a lighter-weight > desktop experience. Unfortunately, I'm having a problem getting it > working, just on my server. > > Local users work fine, and LDAP users work fine usi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ANy working fedora clients ?

2013-08-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:08:13AM +0100, Peter Onion wrote: > I'm tearing my hair out here ! > > So far I've failed to build a working fedora based client.   F19 and F18 are > broken because dracut seems unable to cope with dhcp and nfs moutned root > filesystem.  F18 gets further using nbd but

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] debian 7 thin client audio

2013-06-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 01:05:50PM +1000, Michael Pope wrote: > I've just setup a Debian 7 LTSP server with some thin clients > > I have pulseaudio & libasound2-plugins installed in the client image > (and have rebuilt it). > > I'm not getting sound from the client. > I have the same problem.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Desktop

2013-04-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 03:21:12PM +0100, Keith Hewett wrote: > Hi, > > I've been runnng an LTSP server and two thin clients in my pub for the last > 7 years and have recently upgraded to ubuntu 12.10 and Unity. However, the > thin client hardware is getting on a bit and I'd rather be running LXDE

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP, LDM and Password Expiration

2012-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 09:18:15AM -, Veli-Matti Lintu wrote: > > We've been doing some testing with lightdm + libpam-sshauth + libnss-sshsock > over here and it mostly works. The current hack is available here if you want > to test it out: > > https://github.com/opinsys/ltsp-lightdm > Can

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Test of mailing list performance

2012-09-20 Thread Rob Owens
2:39 PM EDT On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 02:05:44PM -0400, James McQuillan wrote: > Hello all, > > We're evaluating alternatives for the mailing list server. > > One thing we've been hearing is that the current list server is slow at > sending out messages. > > I'm sending this message at 2:05PM EDT

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] I'm really soured on Edubuntu

2012-09-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 09:06:27AM -0400, Robert Lefebvre wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Well, it gets even stranger ... but in a good way. > > I experimented with the CompizConfig Settings Manager because it is the GUI > for the default display right? And all over the place (in the comments, in > th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] I'm really soured on Edubuntu

2012-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 05:13:45PM -0400, Robert Lefebvre wrote: > Getting edubuntu has been one of the most exhausting exercises at what > seems to be futility (at least right now). I talked this school to invest > in it and it is turning into a complete failure. Since the beginning it has > been

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Need to disable lock screen for all users (12.04)

2012-08-13 Thread Rob Owens
Can you just uninstall gnome-screensaver? apt may want to remove all of gnome along with it, but maybe you can force it to uninstall just gnome-screensaver. Alternatives are changing permissions on the gnome-screensaver executable, or renaming it (as someone else suggested). -Rob On Sun, Aug

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Need to disable lock screen for all users (12.04)

2012-08-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 10:31:31PM -0400, David Trask wrote: > Another one... > > I need to disable the lock screen for all users. (Edubuntu 12.04) I > tried the commands on this page...no luck > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/DisableScreenLock > I would have done it with gco

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] installation issues

2012-08-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:22:58PM -0400, Robert Lefebvre wrote: > > I have been able to get the clients logged into the server but the > graphics have a broad spectrum of problems ranging from black screen, to > severe resolution problems and even displaying the server's desktop upside > down an

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slightly OT: how to let someone take over your terminal?

2012-06-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 08:31:10PM -0400, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > When I was first starting with LTSP (9 or 10 years ago?), a kind soul > from Germany had me connect to his machine and then reconnected back > to mine so that he could type commands in the terminal while I > watched. It was the only wa

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp in debian

2012-05-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:27:34PM +0200, Gian Carlo Stagni wrote: > Il 16/05/2012 04:27, Quiliro Ordóñez ha scritto: > > > So LTSP does not work on Pentium III as a client? > I have a laboratory with a server running Squeeze and 20 _very_ > thin-clients... > - CPU: 400MHz Pentium II (Deschutes)

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] can't change passwords from fat clients with LDAP

2012-03-29 Thread Rob Owens
Have you tried installing the ldap client tools in the fat client chroot? -Rob On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 01:24:28PM +, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > My students can't change their passwords using the normal mechanisms. > That makes sense, because LDM tries to log them into the server and > then their f

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 03:26:05PM -0700, Benjamin E. Nichols wrote: > well I did this per your suggestion > > deviant:/var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386# sudo ltsp-chroot apt-get install > $desktop_environment_or_window_manager $other_apps You'd need to change that to something like: sudo ltsp-chroot

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze

2012-03-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:28:20AM -0800, Benjamin E. Nichols wrote: > Hello, need a howto for LTSP Fat-client on Debian Squeeze > > Ive got ltsp setup and booting thin-client just fine, but I heard about > this Fat-Client option > > I have the following in my lts.conf > > [default] > LTSP

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Adding users from commandline

2012-01-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 04:37:58PM -0500, Jay Goldberg wrote: > Greetings all! > > I've been adding users using System -> Administration -> Users and > Groups. However, this doesn't work on thin clients, you must be logged > in to the local console. > > So instead I tried creating users from the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ssh issue with LDM

2011-12-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 08:06:14AM +0100, Emmanuel Le Normand wrote: > Hi, > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:46:24 -0500 > David Hopkins wrote: > > > I checked and resolv.conf had entries for IPv6 and also had a weird > > entry of > > > > 127.0.1.1 ncslts3 > > > > on the ncslts3 server. I commented out

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ssh issue with LDM

2011-12-14 Thread Rob Owens
ecause it completes something > just before the timeout. > > Sincerely, > Dave > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:05:05PM -0500, David Hopkins wrote: > >> All, > >> > >> I am beginning to suspec

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ssh issue with LDM

2011-12-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:05:05PM -0500, David Hopkins wrote: > All, > > I am beginning to suspect this issue is because ssh isn't resolving > names correctly? Timing > > ssh myserver > > from a shell (ALT-CTL-F2) takes about 30 seconds to resolve myserver. > However, ssh any_other_server retu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How does Unity perform on your thin-clients?

2011-12-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 10:20:32AM -0500, Lachele Foley (Lists) wrote: > Regarding LXDE: I decided to try it when I came in this morning. I > like the look and feel of it, and the appearance customizations are > good. It seems, indeed, lightweight and fast. If it is, indeed, > stable, that is a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How does Unity perform on your thin-clients?

2011-12-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 06:07:52PM +0100, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > Am 08.12.2011 17:24, schrieb Sandra Schlichting: > >> I installed xfce4 > >> Works well > > > > Very interesting! > > > > I tried both XFCE and LXDE today. They seam very similar. > > > > Are there differences worth noticing when

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Error in LTSP and GDM Logon

2011-11-09 Thread Rob Owens
Nov 8, 2011 at 21:12, Rob Owens wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 06:24:19PM +0530, srini v wrote: > > > when am giving ltsp-update-sshkeys its not taking much time > > > suddenly it got executes and also i tried with > > > ltsp-update-image > > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Error in LTSP and GDM Logon

2011-11-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 06:24:19PM +0530, srini v wrote: > when am giving ltsp-update-sshkeys its not taking much time > suddenly it got executes and also i tried with > ltsp-update-image > even i enter into the /opt/ltsp directory and i executes the same. > but client produces the same error, it w

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Build Linux Server and Thin Client Environment - For Community College

2011-10-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:46:39PM +0200, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > > We have a bunch of Dell Optiplex P III running here, but with 512 MB RAM > they do not work at all under LTSP 5. So I kept on using LTSP 4.2 and > plan to change as soon as we get some new hardware (see above :-) ) > > I tr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] GDM2 XDMCP is ignoring MaxSessions

2011-10-11 Thread Rob Owens
Whoops, the packages on Debian are actually called "GDM" and "GDM3" -Rob On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 07:48:34PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > Is GDM1 available in your repos? I ask because Debian Squeeze (what I'm > using) has GDM1 available even though GDM2 is the defa

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] GDM2 XDMCP is ignoring MaxSessions

2011-10-11 Thread Rob Owens
Is GDM1 available in your repos? I ask because Debian Squeeze (what I'm using) has GDM1 available even though GDM2 is the default. -Rob On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:33:40AM -0600, Royce Souther wrote: > I have about four LTSP networks that have LTSP4 and have been running great > for years now. Cl

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp gurus please help

2011-09-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:06:08AM +0800, James Linder wrote: > Hi > > I'm using a 10.04 chroot, but have tried an 11.04 too. > > I need to support a 100 or so uber grot Micros WS5 POS terminals as clients. > They are AMD geode with tshark/elo touch screens, and run keyboard less. > > When the s

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Upgrading LTSP...

2011-09-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 02:38:47AM -0700, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > The idea behind LTSP is to support thin clients and unfortunately, > redundancy is extremely hard to implement because the expectations > aren't compatible. There is no standard way to pick one server over > another during a ne

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] broke my server on upgrade

2011-06-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:17:55PM -0600, David Burgess wrote: > Hey gang, > > I had a working Ubuntu 10.10 server (no desktop, just doing RDP here). > I wanted to upgrade the server to 11.04, so I did the responsible > thing and rolled out a fresh 11.04 virtual machine for testing. The > testing

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp -default xsession

2011-06-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 06:03:48PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Hi, > > I am a teacher at a secondary school in Germany and I am responsible > for the IT. > I just set up an edubuntu (11.04) with LTSP to test if this would be > an alternative to the existing infrastructure. So the first > impres

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] K12ltsp USB key LDAP

2011-06-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:43:31PM -1000, Warren Togami Jr. wrote: > On 6/6/2011 8:31 PM, Olivier PUYGRANIER wrote: > > Hello Dear K12 users, > > > > I have a problem with usb keys. > > My k12ltsp is on CENTOS and i use it in a school. > > It is connected on an external LDAP. > > The homes are on t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp upgrade questions

2011-06-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:14:17AM -0500, John McMonagle wrote: > > Read that it is advised to reinstall the chroot instead of upgrading. > Is it OK to create a new one as something like /opt/ltsp/i386-test and rename > and do ltsp-update-kernels when it's known to work? > I create /opt/ltsp.201

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Somethin Awful This Way Comes

2011-06-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:09:11AM -0700, Yudhvir Singh Sidhu wrote: > Dear LTSP-ers, > > It's been a few days. A few long days. My hope is waning but the sweet > Lord has put-eth a lot of energy in me to see this thing through. And > the day of enlightenment is fast approaching. But I am stuck.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] zentyal and ltsp

2011-04-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 04:14:21PM -0400, Andy Graybeal wrote: > Do you have any kind words for guidance with this process? Zentyal has > the built in LDAP server with users and groups.. so do I need to > configure my LTSP server as a LDAP client? ... I feel clueless. > Yes, that is all you sho

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] tftp server via inetd? debian squeeze

2011-04-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 07:39:14PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 05:42:32PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > Is it still recommended to run tftpd via inetd, or to run it standalone? > > I ask because my upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze changed my > &g

[Ltsp-discuss] tftp server via inetd? debian squeeze

2011-04-02 Thread Rob Owens
Is it still recommended to run tftpd via inetd, or to run it standalone? I ask because my upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze changed my settings and tftpd is running standalone now. -Rob -- Create and publish websites w

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] One client going nuts randomly

2011-02-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:35:50AM +0100, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > Am 10.02.2011 02:41, schrieb Rob Owens: > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:09:09PM +0100, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> This is just the case when I don't know

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] One client going nuts randomly

2011-02-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:09:09PM +0100, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This is just the case when I don't know where to start :-) > > We are still running an older system with 4.2 based on a Suse 10.3. > > One of our clients (unfortunately, it's the one on the teacher's desk in

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Sound setup in LTSP5.2

2011-01-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 01:38:24PM -0500, Mark wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed LTSP in a multi-use server to provide services to about > 4-5 clients. > It's a box stock install on a debian squeeze distro. > I'm running Lenny with LTSP 5.2 and sound works. Do you have pulseaudio installed

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] additional NFS mounts on fat client

2011-01-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 03:41:54PM +0100, Xavier Brochard wrote: > Le samedi 8 janvier 2011 15:15:22 Rob Owens, vous avez écrit : > > I need to mount some nfs shares on my fat clients. I tried calling a > > script with RCFILE_01 in lts.conf, but the problem is this script gets &g

[Ltsp-discuss] additional NFS mounts on fat client

2011-01-08 Thread Rob Owens
I need to mount some nfs shares on my fat clients. I tried calling a script with RCFILE_01 in lts.conf, but the problem is this script gets called before portmap is started. So for now I put my mount commands in rc.local. Is there a better or "official" way to do this? Editing fstab in the ch

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP fat clients vs. Debian Live netboot

2010-12-21 Thread Rob Owens
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:57:03PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > more likely your LTSP chroot doesn't have the backported versions of > > ltsp-client*, ldm, and ltspfsd*: > > > > ltsp-info > > > > if the versions of ltsp-client*/ltspfsd*/ldm don't include ~bpo50, you > > probably > > d

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP fat clients vs. Debian Live netboot

2010-12-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:57:03PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:10:55PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 08:10:13PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 07:05:29PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > &

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP fat clients vs. Debian Live netboot

2010-12-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 08:10:13PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 07:05:29PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > But today I tried > > using a netboot image from Debian Live, and it was pretty nice. I'm > > wondering how it compares to an LTSP fat c

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP fat clients vs. Debian Live netboot

2010-12-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 08:10:13PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 07:05:29PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > I haven't tried using LTSP fat client mode yet -- ltsp-server 5.2.4-2 in > > Debian backports doesn't seem to support that yet. > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP fat clients vs. Debian Live netboot

2010-12-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 08:10:13PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 07:05:29PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > I haven't tried using LTSP fat client mode yet -- ltsp-server 5.2.4-2 in > > Debian backports doesn't seem to support that yet. > >

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP fat clients vs. Debian Live netboot

2010-12-12 Thread Rob Owens
I haven't tried using LTSP fat client mode yet -- ltsp-server 5.2.4-2 in Debian backports doesn't seem to support that yet. But today I tried using a netboot image from Debian Live, and it was pretty nice. I'm wondering how it compares to an LTSP fat client. The Debian Live solution works like t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] without dhcp but with usb boot

2010-12-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 07:41:29AM +, Piotr Talarczyk wrote: > Hi, > I have one question. I seen many of tutorials, pages ... that describe > configuration of ltsp. Problem is all of them based on DHCP. I would like to > run > it without DHCP, booted from one USB memory. How to do it? > I t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:01:28PM +0100, Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote: > > What about the wall command? Probably chmod g-w /dev/pts/* will do it > (in a loop !), haven't tested. > There's also the "write" command. I think there are other similar ones, but I can't remember their names. You could

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] will Wayland affect LTSP?

2010-11-15 Thread Rob Owens
ing, I'm using it for on my LTSP > implementation to segregate the applications. overall it shouldn't > affect LTSP deployment. you can always pick Xorg back :) > > -beavis > > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > I read that Ubuntu is plann

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] will Wayland affect LTSP?

2010-11-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 03:20:24PM +0100, Xavier Brochard wrote: > Le mardi 9 novembre 2010 03:13:33, Rob Owens a écrit : > > I read that Ubuntu is planning to move to Wayland as the default display > > technology (not sure what the proper term is) in the next year or so. > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] will Wayland affect LTSP?

2010-11-09 Thread Rob Owens
and affect LTSP? > > > > On 11/08/2010 08:13 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > > I read that Ubuntu is planning to move to Wayland as the default > display > > > technology (not sure what the proper term is) in the next year or so. > > > Will this af

[Ltsp-discuss] will Wayland affect LTSP?

2010-11-08 Thread Rob Owens
I read that Ubuntu is planning to move to Wayland as the default display technology (not sure what the proper term is) in the next year or so. Will this affect the ability to run LTSP on that distro in any way? -Rob -- Th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Distro and general setup questions

2010-10-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:09:47AM -0600, David Burgess wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Donny Brooks > wrote: > > Hello all, > > > >      I am looking to setup a test environment for a LTSP setup. I have > > done some looking and found a few distributions that have LTSP > > "flavors". O

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Distro and general setup questions

2010-10-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:23:07AM -0500, Donny Brooks wrote: > Hello all, > > I am looking to setup a test environment for a LTSP setup. I have > done some looking and found a few distributions that have LTSP > "flavors". Of these which is the easiest to implement and maintain? To > bett

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with KDE4

2010-07-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 06:08:19PM +0100, Russell Brown wrote: > For ages now we've been running low powered (256 or 512Mb RAM, Via CPU & > chipset) thin-clients booting LTSP 4.X that initiate an XDMP session > onto a fairly chunky multi-way Opteron Kubuntu Hardy based server. The > KDE 3.5 deskto

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] About to attempt first LTSP install

2010-05-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:41:36AM -0500, Donny Brooks wrote: > Hello all, > > I am about to venture out and setup a demo system to test out LTSP for > my work place. We are looking into the future and like what we see so far. I > have been dabbling in similar setups since late 1999 to earl

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Cleanup Of Guest Home Directories After Logoff

2010-04-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:45:25PM -0700, Leon Hauck wrote: > We are getting ready to roll out an LTSP installation for use as > internet/openoffice workstations at a local non-profit. It will have > both regular users and guest accounts. > > We're just using Fluxbox (not Gnome) in case that ma

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox is indeed the high disk IO culprit was Re: recommend a disk setup for LTSP install?

2010-04-01 Thread Rob Owens
If the problem is Firefox making too many writes to the users' cache files, as some people have speculated/demonstrated, then this isn't an LTSP-specific problem. It should affect any system that has many simultaneous users accessing /home, such as NFS-mounted home. I imagine that's pretty common

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox is indeed the high disk IO culprit was Re: recommend a disk setup for LTSP install?

2010-04-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 02:21:43PM -0700, john wrote: > > IOTOP has a number of interesting features, including the ability to > show all processes, all threads, only active process/threads, > cumulative or real-time disk I/O etc. Running IOTOP while opening > web pages in firefox, browsing, watch

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP 4 SSH ?

2010-03-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:00:43PM -0600, Tech One wrote: > That's what I thought also. I was informed due to a change in some law > (or something), that anytime a credit card number > gets input into a terminal that if / when it leaves that terminal it > has to be encrypted. Even if it only goes

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP server and DHCP server on different machines

2010-03-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:37:38AM -0300, Yuri Danielewicz wrote: > Hi, > > I work with LTSP and always use it with a dhcp on the same server of the > LTSP, and now I need to divide the two services on two different machines. > So I have two machines, one with a DHCP server and other with a LTSP s

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] multiple Ekiga instances on one server

2010-03-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 02:38:41AM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:44:35PM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: > > > I provide my own SIP services, and as we speak I have 7 DID's assigned &g

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Unmount devices in LTSP 5

2010-03-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:43:45AM -0300, Ezequiel Coser wrote: > I've got a problem to unmount devices in Ubuntu 8.04 + LTSP5. > Added the User in the group fuse, but still when I disassemble a device > the following error message appears: > > Could not unmount cdrom > umount: / media / test / c

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] NX to ltsp server that uses icewm and idesk

2010-03-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:38:18PM +, Evan Ingram wrote: > Hi there, > > i've got an LTSP server that has a locked down desktop with only 2 > desktop icons. used icewm and idesk to achieve this. > > i want to be able to log in to the same desktop remotely for testing > purposes, ie if i remot

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sound stuffer

2010-02-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 02:26:19PM -0500, joe auerbach wrote: > Well, that's no good, then. > > I'm getting the stutter (on and off) when I just have one instance of > twinkle running on a thin client. But I do have twinkle set to use > alsa, so maybe if I play with it some more. > Are you sur

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] multiple Ekiga instances on one server

2010-02-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:44:35PM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: > I provide my own SIP services, and as we speak I have 7 DID's assigned > to 7 SIP accounts that I am registered to, through pfsense/siproxd, > and all devices can call one another as well as in and out of the pbx > to my att cell p

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp 4.2 and ltsp 5

2010-02-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 03:39:41AM -0200, edmarcos wrote: > Hello, the list ... > By necessity set up a server running ltsp ltsp-4.2-and 5.0 on the same > server running debian. > I saw that the wiki is no room for a manual dealing with the subject, > but it is empty > (http://sourceforge.net/apps/

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] 64 bit server

2010-02-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:55:56PM -0800, Ken Walker wrote: > I am about to order a server which will be used as a file server for a > mixed windows/linux lan of about 8 stations and as an ltsp server for a > couple of client terminals running on older pc's with plans to end up > with a half dozen

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Boot menu?

2010-02-05 Thread Rob Owens
The screen scripts that control this sort of thing are located in /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/ltsp/screen.d I'm not exactly sure how to do what you're asking, but I'd start by copying the rdesktop script to something like "rdesktop.menu" and edit that. Then put in lts.conf "SCREEN_07 = rdesktop.menu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] backports for Lenny amd64?

2010-01-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:25:05PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 07:30:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > Are there any backports of the latest LTSP stuff available for Debian > > Lenny on an amd64 architecture? > > not yet, although the server-side

[Ltsp-discuss] backports for Lenny amd64?

2010-01-14 Thread Rob Owens
Are there any backports of the latest LTSP stuff available for Debian Lenny on an amd64 architecture? -Rob -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the fiel

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] multiple Ekiga instances on one server

2010-01-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:18:13AM -0700, David Burgess wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > > > Actually, I have managed to get multiple Ekiga instances on my LAN to > > work.  I used avahi for this, per the advice of somebody on this list. > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] multiple Ekiga instances on one server

2010-01-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 08:15:53PM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:43 PM, David Burgess wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:44 PM, R. Scott Belford wrote: > > > >> My sip clients are not being launched from ltsp clients.  I don't > >> think that's a factor.  To be exac

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Help with ThinClient everythin upside down (gnome)

2010-01-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:38:13PM -0600, Jose Rivera Merla wrote: > *Hi: > * > *Problem: > * > * *After the login screen, gnome appears with all the charactersm includin > menus, etc. upside down. > > This means that the letter P of "Places" appears like a letter b. > I have to say that as far a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] multiple Ekiga instances on one server

2010-01-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 09:30:39AM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:32:09AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:04:42PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > >> > On Tue, Ja

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] multiple Ekiga instances on one server

2010-01-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:32:09AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:04:42PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:13:33AM -0700, David Burgess wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Ondrej Valousek > > > wrote: > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] multiple Ekiga instances on one server

2010-01-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:04:42PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:13:33AM -0700, David Burgess wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Ondrej Valousek wrote: > > > I do not think there is any workaround to this problem. > > > Actually it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] multiple Ekiga instances on one server

2010-01-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:13:33AM -0700, David Burgess wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Ondrej Valousek wrote: > > I do not think there is any workaround to this problem. > > Actually it is the same problem as with running multiple NetMeeting > > instances on Windows terminal server. > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] multiple Ekiga instances on one server

2010-01-09 Thread Rob Owens
g multiple NetMeeting > instances on Windows terminal server. > You can run multiple *client* instances, but only one server instance. > I am not familiar with ekiga, but there should be an option whether you > intend to use the server part of the application or not > > Ondrej

[Ltsp-discuss] multiple Ekiga instances on one server

2010-01-04 Thread Rob Owens
When I try to register multiple Ekiga accounts on the same server (different users, different thin clients, but it's all running on the server), I get errors: "Error while starting the listener for the H.323 protocol" and "Error while starting the listener for the SIP protocol" It seems that ea

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Post Installation Configuaration Help

2009-12-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 02:46:40PM -0500, Anu wrote: > Hello Dan, > > Thanks for the reply. > > Yes. I get the same output when I checked the configuration, but the client > does not connect. Are there any other services such as, which I have to > open..? > > As far as I am aware of, I do not

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Booting LTSP 4.2 on CentOS 5.4

2009-12-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 04:58:58AM -0800, Andre Cahyadi wrote: > Yep, im using LTSP 4.2 from K12LTSP ( that's the only LTSP source i know :), > any other sources of downloading LTSP? ) > > And how can I configure different kernel in dhcpd.conf? Is it works? To specify a different kernel for the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Booting LTSP 4.2 on CentOS 5.4

2009-12-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:48:54AM -0800, Andre Cahyadi wrote: > I currently using CentOS 5.4 and LTSP 4.2u2-0 > Kernel version 2.6.22.4 > > I’ve already installed all the requirements (LTSP, DHCP, TFTP, NFS, etc), > setting all the configuration files (dhcpd.conf, exports, tftpboot) then I > ch

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Help with LTSP 4.2 in Ubuntu Distro

2009-11-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:21:46AM -0300, Mauro Javier Giamberardino Fernandez wrote: > Hello!... i'm from Argentina. Sorry, my english level is low. I'm using a > LTSP Server 4.2 in Ubuntu 9.04. > > I want to know how to use the local sound in the clients. I know that i have > to put the client

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] DPMS + ltsp5 +rdesktop

2009-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:31:19AM -0600, David Burgess wrote: > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Sawar wrote: > > Hi > > > > I would like to ask if there is any way to force monitor to go in standby > > mode. It's working with ldm but when I use rdeskop for win2000 monitors are > > always on. More

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] sound setup on debian

2009-08-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 02:49:44PM +0200, SZABO Zsolt wrote: > Can somebody recommend a good HOWTO or URL with details or tricks? > > It is about debian lenny. I think that the ltsp-client-side is OK > out of the box (pulseaudio is installed per default and started, etc.) > > On the ltsp-server I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] capturing session from xdcmp ?

2009-07-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:41:47PM +0200, Sawar wrote: > > Hi > > is this possible to capture or watch in real-time the same what is viewing > user on thin-client ? > I think this will do what you want: http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/ --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] youtube with mplayer plugin -- sound works!

2009-07-28 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 06:32:23PM -0600, David Burgess wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:13:59PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > > Install the greasemonkey extension for firefox/iceweasel, and then install > > the HQTube script.  http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24999 >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Locking terminal screens after idle

2009-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
There are settings for this in your screensaver program. Two common ones are gnome-screensaver and Xscreensaver. Gnome-screensaver uses gconf to make these settings. Root user can make gconf settings default and/or mandatory for users. Xscreensaver uses regular text files for these settings.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Not able to lock workstation on LTSP Client: Xfce

2009-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:56:32AM +0530, Avinash Rao wrote: > Dear all, > > I have installed Xubuntu-Desktop on Ubuntu Server 8.04 64-bit for LTSP. > I am able to lock the workstation on the server by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete, > but this doesn't work on the LTSP client? > Is there any option to l

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] which distribution for ltsp ?

2009-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 07:22:03PM +0300, asmo.koski...@arkki.info wrote: > > > I've started with Ubuntu because LTSP-5 was mainly developped by Ubuntu > > peoples, and because it was better documented. That's not true now and > > AFAIK, > > LTSP is quite the same in new Ubuntu releases, Debian Si

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] which distribution for ltsp ?

2009-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 05:27:55PM +0100, Chris Roberts wrote: > On Monday 20 Jul 2009, Sawar wrote: > > With my associates we decided that we won't need sound so I think that I'll > > install ltsp on Debian with lxde and few necessary applications. Hopefully > > I'll be able to configure lxde desk

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] youtube with mplayer plugin -- sound works!

2009-07-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:26:02PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:05:22AM -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:13:59PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > > > > > Install the greasemonkey extension for firefox/i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] youtube with mplayer plugin -- sound works!

2009-07-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:21:36AM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: > 2009/7/8 Rob Owens : > > I came across a thread about how to watch youtube videos with mplayer > > instead of Adobe's flash player.  One option is to download the video and > > watch it with the standalone pl

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] youtube with mplayer plugin -- sound works!

2009-07-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:05:22AM -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:13:59PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > Install the greasemonkey extension for firefox/iceweasel, and then install > > the HQTube script. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show

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