Re: [Ltsp-discuss] user in both LDAP and /etc/passwd on fat client?

2013-09-24 Thread Hex
/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net -- Hex h...@neg9.org -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Roaming session

2011-04-25 Thread hex
X doesn't really support that directly. To do that you'll need to use something like Xvnc. IIRC It's possible to have x11vnc either create or reattach a session. Might want to read the man pages of x11vnc and look in to xrdp. At Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:44:50 +0200, Marc JEAN wrote: I logged on a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-06 Thread hex
If you have the option not to use microsoft excel I'd suggest something like gnumeric. There are dozens of good spreadsheet programs. At Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:43:14 +0100, Evan Ingram wrote: On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 08:16 -0700, h...@neg9.org wrote: When you think about wine try to think of each

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-05 Thread hex
if i goto applications wine browse c: drive, it shows me the contents of the shared .wine directory. but if i actually try and run anything i just get the little timer spinning around. i tried running from command line and it tells me wine: /home/user/.wine is not owned by you sure

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp microsoft office

2010-10-05 Thread hex
you shouldn't need to set the dir 777. It shouldn't be writable. but that's another thing When you set your .wine up and installed it set up a bunch of registry settings for office. If you didn't export those registry settings to the other user somehow then their system isn't set up. It's

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

2009-07-19 Thread hex
At my previous job we found that printing and pdfs are defintely better under Ubuntu. There are a few other things that make Ubuntu better on the desktop (as much as I do like vanilla debian). Debian is better for servers, Ubuntu is better on the desktop (imho). for creating users you'll

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] File Copy vs File Move when transferring files in /home

2009-05-18 Thread hex
What I'd suggest is actually using a launcher to do this instead. IIRC you should be able to use a .desktop file (I'm pretty sure gnome calls it a launcher) with the executable set to '/bin/cp -f %F /home/Dropbox'. This should be tested with file names that have spaces in them as I don't remember

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Guess server IP and eth devices

2009-05-17 Thread hex
you need the ip address of the server the scripts run on? On Fri, 15 May 2009 13:10:26 +0200 Philippe ENTZMANN phili...@phec.net wrote: Hello, I am writing scripts to automate some tasks in my Ubuntu LTSP server. To be clean, I need to guess the IP address of the server (the one used by

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Ubuntu 9.04 lts.conf problems

2009-05-04 Thread hex
This does not work since /lib/modules/'uname -r'/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/via ,this path does not exist in the chroot enviroment, Question 1: How do I compile the driver in the chroot enviroment? Ok, there's two issues here. First 'uname -r' is going to return the active kernel version, but