<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 18 Jun 2011, at 5:15 AM, Leena wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><big><big>Hi, We are trying to setup Edubuntu 10.04 in school and get image on thin client machines. Edubuntu installation on server and LTSP installation goes fine. When try to connect client machines doesn't go beyond connection window and shows blank screen. Details of the setup and hardware and changes we have done so far are listed below......sorry it's a long mail.....this issue is very urgent for us and hoping that someone would have done similar setup or have come across similar issues might able to help us.... questions: After the setup on server, as for client machines we are unable to receive response when we ping clients IP from server (client machine, server and hub are on). </big></big><big><big>How to check if dhcp is running?</big></big></div></blockquote><div> </div><div> </div>ps -A | grep dhcp</div><div> </div><div> <blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><big><big> on most documentations on net I have read for thin client setup they change network/interfaces file and connection to 'STATIC' instead of 'dynamic' is it required? </big></big><big><big>Details: </big></big>Hardware used: Server-HCL computer-2GB RAM, 160GB Hard disk, two network cards Clients: connected to 10 Thin Clients connected to server on LAN, no Internet connection here. Client machines has connection window-Winbee connection manager for login. What we did so far: Installed Edubuntu 10.04 on server. After it was over when the pop-up appears for restart now or continue testing (to install LTSP). At that we clicked on 'Continue Testing'- as we wanted to install LTSP (Linux Terminal Server) For network connection eth0 was shown as used, so we selected-eth1 here. </div></blockquote><div> </div><div> </div><div>How many network interfaces do you have?</div><div> </div><div>I noticed when I installed 11.04 last week (for the first time) that it defaulted to eth1. I knew that I only had one interface, so I set it to eth0 and everything went better than expected. :)</div><div> </div> <blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">after LTSP was configured we did reboot computer, and made couple of changes to config files as follows <div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"><pre class="ctl" style="text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; ">Enabled the XDMCP Server by (using N-XDMCP connection type on clients for connection) copied usr/share/custom.conf file to /etc/gdm/custom.conf and added below lines below [xdmcp] option.</pre><pre class="ctl"> [xdmcp] Enable=true DisplaysPerHost=2 [chooser] [security] [debug]</pre><pre class="ctl" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify; ">Restart GDM</pre> Then edited our interfaces file: /etc/network/interfaces to following auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.0.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 and finally the /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf dhcpd.conf file to following # # Default LTSP dhcpd.conf config file. # authoritative; subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.0.20 192.168.0.250; option domain-name "example.com"; option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1; option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255; option routers 192.168.0.254; # next-server 192.168.0.1; # get-lease-hostnames true; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option root-path "/opt/ltsp/i386"; if substring( option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9 ) = "PXEClient" { filename "ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0"; } else { filename "ltsp/i386/nbi.img"; } } rebooted the server. and in client machines, added connection at 'Winbee connection Manager'- (HCL client comes with these) <h2 class="ctl" style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; ">Configuring/Setting up HCL Winbees-4000BVX Thin Clients</h2>for new OS connection, add connection.on top there are two options, 1. configuration Name:connection name here (EDubuntu) Type:N-XDMCP click-ok <ul><ul><li>Description → Edubuntu</li><li>Mode → Direct</li><li>Server Name → 192.168.0.254</li><li>XDMCP on → Second Console</li></ul></ul>2. connection:click on setup to add Network to check ip address for client save. and reboot clients. After rebooting client machine, when I select my newly added 'Edubutu' connection and click 'connect'. It shows blank screen with white mouse cross mark. The link here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.edubuntu.org/documentation/ltsp-live">http://www.edubuntu.org/documentation/ltsp-live</a>- at the very bottom of page says " you simply have to set the connected workstations to boot from the network. by going into BIOS". we haven't done that as hcl clients has Winbee manager to go thr' connection process. Not sure if we should have really. Can anybody give any clues to what might have gone wrong? Thanks, </div><div class="moz-signature"> <div class="moz-signature">-- Leena Mulye Technical Project Associate IT for Change In special consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC <a href="http://www.ITforChange.net/">www.ITforChange.net</a> Tel:+91-80-2665 4134, 2653 6890. 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