A small LTSP network setup

[Faisal]

On 12/06/12 12:18, Matt Johnson wrote:
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>> From: Faisal<xashiish at gmail.com>
>> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Sent: Tuesday, 12 June 2012, 3:51
>> Subject: A small LTSP network setup
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>> Hi all,
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>> I am thinking of setting up a small LTSP network consisting of
>        10-15 workstations for a local charity. I am coming from the
>        windows terminal services / Citrix world and i am very familiar
>        with that side of things and my Linux experience is average at
>        best.
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>> In terms of hardware, i think we are going for donated/cheap used
>        fat clients and have the local apps option for LibreOffice,
>        Firefox etc to ease the load on the server. I am also thinking of
>        having an NFS share for the /home partition on a separate grey
>        box(if that further helps ease the load of the server and makes it
>        run better).
>> As for the server, there are good deals going on where i am for
>        small office servers such as the HP Proliant ML110 G7 with Intel Xeon E3-1220 / 3.1 GHz(quad core) and 8 GB of DDR3 1333 mhz RAM(upgradable to 16) and 7200 rpm HD disc with dual Gigabit NICs. Would something like this be suitable for powering the 10-15 workstations or will that be pushing it?
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> I think you'll find that server hardware handles your demands well. It all becomes particularly scalable when you introduce local apps as you plan. We use a similarly spec'd server to server a suite of 32 machines (actually, the server serves 64 machines to 250 users, but seldom are more than 40 workstations on at once).
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> I really don't think you'll need or want ldap. Desktop user management tools that come with the setup really will be easy to use and scale without a problem.
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> We're just experimenting with fat clients with 12.04. So far, so good.
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> Welcome aboard.
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> --
> Matt
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Hi Matt,

Thank you very much for your feedback and advice. I will drop LDAP as 
you all suggested and stick with the built in tools. I have briefly used 
Webmin before for basic mysql database config and stuff like that, but 
will re-visit it once again to learn more about it.

It is encouraging to read your comments regarding your HW setup and how 
many workstations you can power from that one server alone. Impressive 
to say the least and it is a testimony to the efficiency linux has offer.

Cheers,

Faisal
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