<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=603542114-29042008>Is it possible to do the local apps setup/low fat clients without ldap? Since we are already authenticating against an AD, would we have to setup ldap to work with that?</SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=603542114-29042008></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=603542114-29042008>Levi</SPAN></DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> edubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:edubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>David Van Assche<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:18 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Edubuntu Users Group<BR><B>Subject:</B> hardy updates and low fat clients<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV>So I upgraded our school server to Hardy and battled with some issues which surfaced and I'd like to document here for anyone that runs into similar problems:<BR><BR>1. Firefox 3 beta 5 froze thin clients across the network, freezing not just the application itself, but other applications too. Reverting to firefox 2 has fixed this completely, and it is certainly a strange issue as I seem to be the only one that saw this issue. That said, after looking over the ubuntu forums, there are many users that seem to have reverted to firefox 2 until 3 is not beta anymore.<BR><BR>2. Removable media shows up on everyone's desktops... this was fallout from the move from gnome-vfs to gvfs, a good move, but bringing up its own set of problems. This is a known bug and being worked on, and there should be a fix coming very soon.<BR><BR>3. using the workstation plugin (low fat clients) seems to work wonderfully under hardy (though need to take out the powerdev user group, and install flash, ldap, nfs in the chroot.) Anyway, the plugin has simplified the process to create low fat clients considerably... take a look here: <A href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients</A><BR><BR>Other than that, installing Ubuntu Hardy with LTSP support was as easy as following this guide: <A href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPQuickInstall">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPQuickInstall</A><BR><BR>I moved from using 64 bit Ubuntu to using a 32 bit kernel with support for lots of ram, and this has fixed a plethora of issues for me. My advice for anyone running 64 bit is to move to 32 bit unless you're running a highly used web server or something... otherwise, the 64 bit extensions are not noticeable...<BR><BR>Kind Regards,<BR>David Van Assche<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>