Questions tagged [ltsp]

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Diskless workstations

For various reasons I need a setup with one server, and two diskless workstations. The workstations are to be "fat clients", which means I want to enable them to use their own CPU, memory, etc, for everything. Ideally, the workstation users should…
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Thin client that is only allowed to run certain applications

Im thinking about testing out LTSP on a PPC server for a handful of PPC macs. Before I go ahead with testing and building out everything, is it possible to limit what apps are ran on the thin client? Lets say I only want the thin client to be able…
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Best way to share the resources of a powerful workstation across multiple users?

So I'll describe the set-up, then the exact requirements and then the list of options I have tried and then I'll ask if their's a better approach or the best option among the ones mentioned. So we are a group of Machine Learning researchers, We have…
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Is PXE in a 802.1x network for LTSP possible?

I have an LTSP server in a network that requires 802.1x authentication. Is it possible to boot the terminals through PXE without disabling the 802.1x authentication? If not, are there alternatives to simply disabling auth for the terminals?
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LTSP - Automatic build package selection

After recently instaling and setting up an LTSP environment, to learn more about it, using a few older spare PC's I have, I noticed that there are packages missing on the clients. In specific festival and sox. At first thought, without knowing much…
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Installing new NVIDIA driver fails

I hope this is as easy as an already answered question I didn't find on SE. So, I have an LTSP server running CentOS 6. Linux kernel version of both LTSP image and server are the same: is 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86.64 (uname -r), yum is up to date on…
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Handle mouse and keyboard usb device in udev

I'm trying to set up usbip on our thin clients to forward (almost all) USB devices to the server. What I don't want to forward are all input devices and all hub / virtual devices. So I want to exclude everything with vendor id 1d6b (Linux…
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LTSP fails while downloading images

Some time ago, I've configured LTSP on Debian machine. I've been using it from time to time and it worked. Today it stopped working and I cannot figure out what's wrong. Client says: Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1 PXE Software Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel…
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How to use ARM as LTSP server?

Arm has a limited support for server packages on Linux but is it possible to use ARM board i.e Raspberry Pi or Banana Pi(it uses Armhf instruction set rather than dated Armv6 used by raspberry pi) as a LTSP terminal server? If so, how? Everywhere on…
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Configuring a LTSP kiosk mode to shutdown when a web browser closes

What i want is a client that logs in with a web browser full screen and when the user closes it the system shuts down or logs off the user. So I've been trying to mount a PXEBOOT system for a while now.. after many attempts and according to the…
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Hardware requirements for building a Debian server that will run as ltsp, vpn, and fileserver

I will be building a server based on Debian that will have several functions in a small office (5-10 users). The primary function will be as a file server, but I would like to set the office up to use only thin clients connected to this single…
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Creating "fat" Termimal multiboot server LTSP

I have 150 mining servers. They all have own ssd drives, and EthOS distribution based on Ununtu. Now I want to crate centralized server without ssd. All machines will connect by wlan and take the image of OS from central server. I have read about…