fat clients ssh into ltsp server

[Patrick McKnight]

Gavin,

Thanks for your reply.  I figured out the problem late last night.  My
NIC's were switched and kept switching each boot.  I also had them
configured incorrectly - eth0 was my internet connection and eth1 was
my local network connection.  Once I switched those around, everything
worked just fine.

Also, just a note to those who might run into the same problem - my
nic's kept getting a different ethX assigned at boot.  Sometimes they
were properly assigned and other times they switched.  It was
maddening until I created some new udev rules (i.e., in
/etc/udev/rules.d/) with the following lines to assign the ethX by MAC
address:

create a file called 11-local.rules

paste and edit the file according to your MAC addresses:

KERNEL=="eth*",SYSFS{address}=="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx",NAME="eth1"
KERNEL=="eth*",SYSFS{address}=="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx",NAME="eth0"

Everything works just fine now.


On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:00 AM, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Patrick McKnight wrote:
>
>> I am setting up an ltsp server but somehow I have run into a novel
>> problem.  I have several machines that are stand-alone workstations
>> that boot off their own hard drives.  I want to be able to access the
>> hardware on those systems as well as allow those workstations to
>> access the ltsp server.
>
> When you say "access" the ltsp server, what exactly do you mean.  Surely
> any desktop can ssh to the ltsp server?
>
>> I am using the ltsp server as the dhcp server for my network.  So, can
>> the ltsp server be a dhcp server for thin and fat clients and allow
>> access via ssh across the network?  If so, how?  Thanks greatly for any
>> help.
>
> It does this by default.  The thin clients will PXE boot, other desktops
> will not request booting information and will just get IP addresses as
> normal.  When you say "access" do you mean a full X display running on the
> server or just be able to ssh into it.  You should already be able to ssh
> to it.
>
> Gavin
>
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Cheers,

Patrick
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