thin client or stand alone - which is better? [Fat clients]

[David Van Assche]

On Jan 29, 2008 10:48 AM, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
>
> > Thanks for all the feedback. It seems that having both fat and thin
> > would be ideal but I don't have that option. I only have the one lab
> > and it may be difficult to keep it as we continue to grow.
>
> I think you do have the option.  Basically, thin clients are the
> completely
> straightforward route which should work out of the box.  By setting up
> LDAP
> and NFS you can keep your thin clients and add on a few fat ones too.  As
> someone else mentioned, dual booting the two is also possible (though
> probably confusing for users).
>

Talking about fat clients authenticating via LDAP, I've just done that on my
network, to take advantage of the 20 core 2 duo laptops that have been
running as thin clients till now. After doing an apt-get install
edubuntu-desktop in a new chroot (ltsp-build-image -a i386 -b
/opt/ltsp/fati386 -p 2003), one gets a couple of apt-get errors related to
cupsys, so need to take it out of init.d temporarily to do a successful
apt-get install -f. Making sure you have the ldap client installed and
properly configured in the chroot, you can then build the image using
ltsp-build-image -a fati386 -b /opts/ltsp -p 2003 (yes seems wrong, but this
is the way it worked for me.)

Anyway, after migrating all the unix groups and users to the LDAP server
database, I restarted the slapd server and dhcpd server (after adding the
appropriate line in there), and started up a thin 'fat' client to boot up
and authenticate successfully against the LDAP directory, but I had some
problems with my ATI video cards. It looks, however, like it works. The only
thing I was unsure about, when logging in from the terminal is a message
saying the groups and user referring to the numbers as specified in ldap
were not found. Should I create a group with the appropriate ID in
/etc/group in the client? (in this case 1000)

Anyway, I'll test some more tomorrow, and see if I'm successful.

David


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