[Ltsp-discuss] Creative use of LTSP

2015-06-26 Thread Roland Giesler
, what can you suggest? thanks in advance *Roland Giesler* -- Monitor 25 network devices or servers for free with OpManager! OpManager is web-based network management software that monitors network devices and physical

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Lucid ldm not recognising Unity et al

2013-11-22 Thread Roland Giesler
Here is a more detailed analysis of the results and logs: This is what happens on the thin client (I can only take a screenshot): [image: Inline image 1] This is the log on the server: Nov 21 14:59:03 Ashton dnsmasq-dhcp[317]: 2840456473 available DHCP range: 172.16.0.20 --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Lucid ldm not recognising Unity et al

2013-11-22 Thread Roland Giesler
Subsequently I did manage to upgrade both busybox and udhcpc to v 1.15.3http://www.edgebaston.co.za/eMail-Query.aspx?CLIENTID=5314eMail=da...@edgebaston.co.zaName=David%20FinlaysonCONTACTID=4698(as Alkis suggested in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ltsp/+bug/505916) and made the changes

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Drop Box

2013-11-21 Thread Roland Giesler
. I thought of making a copy of it in /opt or so. My install script could then make a symlink from the user's Autostart pointing to the binary. They could download and install it under Windows at home for themselves then. What do you think? Rolf Am 19.11.2013 11:26, schrieb Roland Giesler

[Ltsp-discuss] Lucid ldm not recognising Unity et al

2013-11-15 Thread Roland Giesler
After updating the chroot and ensuring that ldm is the latest version is per the site above, when I start my thin client I still don't get the sessions in the chooser and neither is my ldm_session setting lts.conf accepted. Does anyone have advice? Roland Giesler

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Xsession: unsupported number of arguments (2)

2013-08-15 Thread Roland Giesler
On 15/08/2013 00:35, Roland Giesler wrote: I can report that if I kill lightdm running in the server at startup, the problem goes away. I did: sudo pkill lightdm When I now log in on a thin client in Gnome-classic, I get logged in. It turns out that this is not quite true. I'm using

[Ltsp-discuss] Xsession: unsupported number of arguments (2)

2013-08-14 Thread Roland Giesler
LTSP Server: Ubuntu 12.04 64bit I have a quirk I can't pinpoint and not sure if it's due to LTSP or not. When a thin client starts Xsession (after booting successfully), the user selects Gnome classic from the preferences menu on the LDM login screen. The user then logs on. The error Xsession:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Xsession: unsupported number of arguments (2)

2013-08-14 Thread Roland Giesler
On 14/08/2013 15:41, Roland Giesler wrote: What can I furthermore do to pinpoint this and resolve the problem? As suggested on IRC, I tried startx for the user on the server and all run well, no error. Logging in the from lightdm on the server, is also not a problem, I can change the session

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Xsession: unsupported number of arguments (2)

2013-08-14 Thread Roland Giesler
I can report that if I kill lightdm running in the server at startup, the problem goes away. I did: sudo pkill lightdm When I now log in on a thin client in Gnome-classic, I get logged in. What is causing this? Where should I report this? thanks Roland 0x1A7E38F8.asc Description:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Thin Clients

2013-07-11 Thread Roland Giesler
If you don't want to use network booting, then they will provide you with a pre-installed Ubuntu image on an SD card. regards Roland Giesler +27 (0)72-450-2817 http://www.giesler.za.net Disclaimer: The sender invokes the rule of exemptus responsibilitus pertaining to caffeine soluted inductions

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

2013-06-08 Thread Roland Giesler
successfully? If so, you should see what your log says. If you put SCREEN_08=shell into your lts.conf, you will be able to press ctrLaltF8 on the client and inspect the local log at /var/log/syslog. That would give you some indication of what it going wrong. regards Roland Giesler

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Debian chroot for Ubuntu Server

2013-05-22 Thread Roland Giesler
! In the past, Debian LTSP used NFS and Ubuntu used NDB for connecting thin client. If it's always true, you need to configure the NBD server and set NBD parameter in the chroot. Bye Manu Le 06/05/2013 19:12, Roland Giesler a écrit : I used a Debian Wheezy server I created in a VM over

[Ltsp-discuss] How to force Ubuntu to use NBD and not NFS

2013-05-19 Thread Roland Giesler
I have an Ubuntu 64bit server (12.04) with a Debian Wheezy i386 chroot. Installation was done from a Server-CD, then I added ltsp-server-standalone, removed isc-dhcp-server and added dnsmasq. The client boots, but gets to Begin: Mounting root filesystem Begin: Running script/nfs-top, done ...

[Ltsp-discuss] Debian chroot for Ubuntu Server

2013-05-06 Thread Roland Giesler
I used a Debian Wheezy server I created in a VM over the weekend to build a chroot i386 for my Ubuntu server. (ltsp-build-client -a i386) Then I copied /opt/ltsp/i386 from the Wheezy VM to /opt/ltsp/i386 on Ubuntu Precise. (I tarred the directory, copied it over and untarred it again) Then ran