LTSP server in Ubuntu

[Chris Mohler]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Andrew Farris<flyindragon1 at aol.com> wrote:

>>  and one more thing is i need only terminal service not graphical
>> windows and all, that means i need to remove the gdm form all clients,
>> kindly help me...
>
> like Brian said... you don't actually have to /remove/ gdm, just turn it
> off, or change your bootup runlevel so you start into a terminal. I
> think "sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove" will make you boot up into a
> terminal by removing the reference from rc to gdm. Of course, after
> doing that, don't forget to update your client images:
> sudo ltsp-update-image

In LTSP 4, editing the /etc/lts.conf file was enough to specify what
was handed out to clients - how many GDM/XDMCP sessions and/or VTs.
I've not had time to play with the LTSP 5 that ships w/Ubuntu these
days, but I expect a similar configuration exists...

Chris