Customizing Edubuntu's LTSP client to start another session

[S. J. van Harmelen]

Wait up... I just saw from the logs that it can't
find /usr/bin/rdesktop. Grr!!

So though the rdesktop files are there by default, the binary is not!

Did apt-get... And am now rebuilding the image. Guess it should be
allright now.

Thanks a bunch!!

Sander

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 14:05 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, S. J. van Harmelen wrote:
> 
> > So I did another test. I did a default ldm session and then tried to
> > manualy start /usr/lib/ltsp/screen.d/rdesktop. But this resulted in the
> > same behavior, and so I still could not check anything.
> > 
> > I find this rader strange though. The rdesktop script I'm trying to use
> > is file offert by Edubuntu it self. It's in the defult install off Gutsy
> > so I guess I should expect it to work out-of-the-box? Right?
> 
> Probably, though gutsy is still not released (albeit very close).
> 
> Did you try this:
> 
> > > You could check the rdesktop server and see are any connections being
> > > refused or if any connection is coming in from the client (tcpdump would be
> > > a good bet for this).
> 
> It may as you say be a bug, but this sort of information would tell us if
> the thin client is managing to get a connection out onto the network.  If
> it is a bug, now's the time to fix it.
> 
> You could install openssh-server into the kiosk.
> 
> 	sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get install openssh-server
> 	sudo ltsp-update-image
> 
> and reboot the thin client.  Then you should be able to ssh into the thin
> client and try the previous tests.  You will get an error from the
> openssh-server install, but it should work anyway.  You can then remove it
> afterward.
> 
> Gavin
> 
>