The 4GB problem

David Van Assche dvanassche at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 19:10:47 GMT 2007


Hmm wonderful, so I'm assuming skolelinux/debian-edu do this with smbldap.
If we have LDAP working for authentication already, this would work right?

Kind Regards,
David Van Assche

On 10/30/07, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 30.10.2007, 23:11 +0900 schrieb nigel barker:
> > David Van Assche wrote:
> > >
> > > Anyway I would love to know a better way to make workstation thin
> > > clients using LTSP instead... any ideas?
> >
> > This is possible in Debian-edu/Skolelinux. They call it "diskless
> > workstations" and I've been using it for over  a year with great
> > success.
> right, there is a document (debian specific
> though) /usr/share/doc/ltsp-server/workstation that explains how to set
> up a locally running kiosk with a complete desktop to ....
>
> for ubuntu you would have to change
> chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 tasksel install desktop
> to
> chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
>
> (note that the copy_dirs and rw_dirs variables are not used anymore in
> gutsy)
>
> then you need to make sure the home dir gets mounted from the server and
> you need have some kind of network auth mechanism the client can attach
> to.
>
> since we're still missing the network auth mechanism (the server team is
> working hard to get something standardized going for hardy which we will
> use in edubuntu then) we dont have fat clients implemented yet...
> so your mileage may vary if you build such a setup yourself but its
> surely possible to get going.
>
> ciao
>         oli
>
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