Mixing thin and fat clients

[Manu]

Hi,

2008/5/19 Paul J. Thompson <edubuntu001 at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Forgive me if this is a stupid question but can you have  thin clients and
> fat clients booting of the same LTSP server? Is there a good howto on how to
> do this? Advice and pointers would be most welcome.

You can have many LTSP environment for thin client, but you need the
static dhcp for many filename

Example the /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf I create a group with option for kiosk mode

# test LTSP
		group {
			option root-path "/opt/ltsp/kiosk";   <==== the kiosk mode LTSP
environnment for all PC in the group
			next-server 195.221.40.200;
			filename "/ltsp/kiosk/pxelinux.0";
			# PC (Salle multimedia) prof
			host lnt-d00048 {
				hardware ethernet 00:1a:a0:34:43:dc;
				fixed-address 195.221.40.20;
				}
			# PC (Salle multimedia) eleve 1
			host lnt-d00050 {
				hardware ethernet 00:1a:a0:34:44:af;
				fixed-address 195.221.40.21;
				}

And for other method, you set the filename for every PC:
	host test-ltsp1 {
			next-server 195.221.40.200;
			filename "/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0";
			option root-path "/opt/ltsp/i386";    <==== the standard LTSP environnment
			hardware ethernet 00:0c:29:27:ec:22;
			fixed-address 192.168.62.170;
			}
		# adresse pour test LTSP
		host test-ltsp2 {
			option root-path "/opt/ltsp/fati386";   <==== the fat client LTSP
environnment
			next-server 195.221.40.200;
			filename "/ltsp/fati386/pxelinux.0";
			hardware ethernet 00:0c:29:c6:98:9d;
			fixed-address 192.168.62.171;
			}

And all PC use the same LTSP server

# ls /opt/ltsp/
fati386
i386
kiosk

# ls /opt/ltsp/images
fati386.img
i386.img
kiosk.img

etc etc

Manu




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