Simpler method for fat/thin client setups

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

Στις 02/04/2012 06:11 μμ, ο/η David Groos έγραψε:
> The need to reboot the server into grub recovery mode
 > is a limitation for my implementation.

How about "sudo grub-reboot ltsp-pnp-grub-entry" then?
That would reboot your server, automatically select a related grub menu, 
generate the squashfs image, and continue with the boot process after 
it's done.


 > At the end of the summer/before the start of the school year
 > I set up one 'golden server' then using clonezilla, clone
 > that image to the other servers only needing to adjust
 > a few network config files.  How would this new system
 > impact how I have been propagating the server?

You could still do the same, no difference there.
Or since the same image now contains both the server and the client 
functionality, you could netboot your other servers from the golden 
server, but it's too soon to go into details about that idea. :)


 > It seems you are saying that I could get LDAP authentication, Apache
 > caching/filtering working on the server and then not have them
 > running on the clients--is this like the opposite of localapps?
 > Would I have to specify each application I don't want to run
 > locally?  I may need some guidance here.

Why disable LDAP on the clients? LDM would still use ssh for authentication.
For apache, sure, you could set RM_SYSTEM_SERVICES=apache2 in lts.conf, 
or you could have it running on a server that's not part of your LTSP 
setup. That server could e.g. host NFS, LDAP and apache, and your other 
servers would be your NBD+application servers.