Firefox as local app and networking

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, M Rathburn wrote:

> Edubuntu 8.10 amd64
> 
> I want to try to run Firefox as a local app on thin clients to see if things
> can be sped up (right clicks, listboxes, etc.).  I have everything set up,
> unfortunately the thin client running Firefox locally cannot see the
> internet.  Here's my config:
> 
> eth0 - on my local network where our internet is (192.168.1.25, gw
> 192.168.1.1).
> eth1 - is the thin client network with scheme 192.168.0.254 (server).

The simplest way is probably to run a proxy server like squid on the ltsp
server, but that will only solve http and ftp.  You might want realplayer
or something later, so NAT is probably the best approach and also will use
less resources on the server:

https://wiki.edubuntu.org/ThinClientHowtoNAT

Gavin