Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-24 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, Thankyou all for your help. I've got this going using etch and casper. Here are my notes. They're in Spanish but Google should do a good job translating. http://gatopelao.org/?Remote_thinclient Cheers. Chris. On Jan 20, 2008 1:57 AM, jam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-01-19 at

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-19 Thread jam
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 12:06 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I wondering just how practical this idea is. LTSP seems to be very > > > remote boot orientated. Do yo really think this is a good idea? > > > I has a look at http://lessdisks.carookee.com/ at the doc says > that it > > > isn't cont

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-19 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, > > I wondering just how practical this idea is. LTSP seems to be very > > remote boot orientated. Do yo really think this is a good idea? > > I has a look at http://lessdisks.carookee.com/ at the doc says that it > > isn't continued because the developer 'Vagrant Cascadian' is now > > maintai

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-18 Thread jam
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 12:06 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've managed to get LTSP to boot (to prompt) from the flash drive > > > although I'm still a long way from getting things going as they > > > should. > > [snip] > > > > Chris, work the curse of the drinking class, so your query is s

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
On Do, 2008-01-17 at 17:57 +0100, Chris Fanning wrote: > Hi, > > I've managed to get LTSP to boot (to prompt) from the flash drive > although I'm still a long way from getting things going as they > should. > > This is what I did. > > - > Use debootstrap to avoid installing

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-18 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi all, > > > I've managed to get LTSP to boot (to prompt) from the flash drive > > although I'm still a long way from getting things going as they > > should. > [snip] > > Chris, work the curse of the drinking class, so your query is still > unanswered. :) I wondering just how practical this ide

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-17 Thread jam
> I've managed to get LTSP to boot (to prompt) from the flash drive > although I'm still a long way from getting things going as they > should. [snip] Chris, work the curse of the drinking class, so your query is still unanswered. This is what I'd do: install gutsy https://help.ubuntu.com/commu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-17 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, I've managed to get LTSP to boot (to prompt) from the flash drive although I'm still a long way from getting things going as they should. This is what I did. - Use debootstrap to avoid installing a real LTSP installation on your PC. # debootstrap --arch i386 etch /opt/lt

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-15 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi James, > > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 07:24 -0800, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > We thought the might be two possibilites. > > > 1) boot the clients over the network (WAN) ? > > > > I'll leave others to answer this one - but I doubt it's practical - > > unless you > > have huge bandwidth. > > > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-14 Thread jam
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 07:24 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > We thought the might be two possibilites. > > 1) boot the clients over the network (WAN) ? > > I'll leave others to answer this one - but I doubt it's practical - > unless you > have huge bandwidth. > > > 2) install just enough on

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-14 Thread Xavier Brochard
See my answer to Christopher Using thinstation or pxes you can directly login to the NX server, the session is fullscreen I guess it's possible to do the same using ltsp, but you'll need to tweak the LDM or GDM login window. regards xavier On 2008-01-14 17:40:38 +0100 "Chris Fanning" <[EMAIL

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-14 Thread Xavier Brochard
On 2008-01-14 18:12:00 +0100 Xavier Brochard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-01-14 13:53:46 +0100 "Chris Fanning" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> We've got some remote offices where staff use freeNX to access their >> remote desktops. >> >> At the moment the installations are a bit of a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-14 Thread Xavier Brochard
On 2008-01-14 13:53:46 +0100 "Chris Fanning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've got some remote offices where staff use freeNX to access their > remote desktops. > > At the moment the installations are a bit of a mixture. Some users > have nxclient installed on their PC's, and some users have a L

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-14 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Monday 14 January 2008 16:40, Chris Fanning wrote: > But I can't get fullscreen going with their window manager JWM. > Some time ago (thanks to help on this list), I did get NX fullsceen > using the ion2 window manager. > Damn Small Linux also has ion2 prepared and I have got it going. Oddly en

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, Thanks for getting back Chris. I've got the freeNX client going on damn small linux. They have the nx client1.5 already prepared and it wasn't difficult. But I can't get fullscreen going with their window manager JWM. Some time ago (thanks to help on this list), I did get NX fullsceen using

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-14 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Monday 14 January 2008 14:23, Christopher Roberts wrote: > Knoppix live CD to act as an LTSP server I decided to do a bit of digging... Apparently it's not LTSP, but it does provide a "terminal server" with DHCP, TFTP and NFS: * http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/KNOPPIX_Terminal_Server But read

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-14 Thread Christopher Roberts
On Monday 14 January 2008 12:53, Chris Fanning wrote: > We thought the might be two possibilites. > 1) boot the clients over the network (WAN) ? I'll leave others to answer this one - but I doubt it's practical - unless you have huge bandwidth. > 2) install just enough on the thinclients to get

[Ltsp-discuss] clients over the WAN

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Fanning
Hi, We've got some remote offices where staff use freeNX to access their remote desktops. At the moment the installations are a bit of a mixture. Some users have nxclient installed on their PC's, and some users have a LTSP4.2 terminal with the nxclient "SCREEN_01= startnx" Both work fine but we