Mixing thin and fat clients

[Paul J. Thompson]

Thanks Manu and David. I will give it a shot and report back.

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:44 AM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>
wrote:

> And for a good howto take a look here:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients
>
> Kind Regards,
> David
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Manu <manu at ubuntu-fr.org> wrote:
>
>>  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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