Using nubae fatclient [was Re: which release to use?]

[David Van Assche]

Yeah asking on the list is fine... or private to me otherwise... but
this way others can benefit from the messages too. First... can u tell
me your infrastructure (server, release, TC details.) I'll take a look
at the errors u are getting now and post on that soon.

David (nubae)

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:33 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, considering fatclient is not 'officially' supported, bug reports
>> are a bit irrelevant, though I would welcome any help with getting the
>> script working under Hardy.  To be honest I haven't looked at the
>> fatclient script in a while, but I'll set up a test environment with
>> hardy and go from there. I'll let you know where I get stuck, and if
>> you can help, that would be much appreciated. Last time I checked, one
>> couldn't even get to the ldm screen if I remember correctly.
>>
>> kind Regards,
>> David Van Assche
>> www.nubae.com
>
> Since the fatclient script from nubae is not officially supported, I'm
> not sure where I should post questions. I'm going to post them here
> and hope I can get some answers. I'm trying out the fatclient script
> from http://www.nubae.com/ltsp-linux-terminal-server-project-netbooted-fat-client-for-ubuntu-hardy-and-intrepid
> (David's site) and get a bunch of errors. I took a few photos of the
> thin client when it boots up (I couldn't capture the log on the thin
> client because the system becomes unusable quickly). Photos are at
> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/files/ltsp-fatclient-errors.zip
>
> My questions:
>
> 1) When running the script as indicated on the site, I get to a point
> where it asks for main user with root privileges. I am assuming this
> is the user on the server who has root privileges via sudo?
>
> 2) What went wrong? (see photos at
> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/files/ltsp-fatclient-errors.zip)
>
> Any help would be great. The default thin client works fine, but the
> server gets overloaded when using multimedia apps, which is what we'll
> be doing this semester (begins next week). If nothing works, I'll fall
> back to the default thin client.
>
> Sameer
> --
> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
>