LTSP Forum

[Lem]

As a follow-up to this thread;
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=603151

I think it would be useful to have a LTSP forum. It's a fantastically useful tool, that not many outside of Edubuntu know much about.
A friend of mine has put his virtualisation plans on hold to investigate LTSP and whilst it's easy to get rolling, the documenation is sparse and largely outdated and many users seem to be struggling.
Many more are probably unaware that it even exists.

A place to share tips, howtos etc. could only be a good thing.

So.. any chance are sparing a little disc space for us LTSP'ers?

[leftfield technology]

This is something we'd love to see too. We've been looking at virtulisation for a long while for our proposed Ubuntu workplace server before stumbling on LTSP.
Our first efforts with LTSP have been very promising, but whilst it's easy to find information on the various virtualisation technologies, the documentation and wiki for LTSP is generally out of date and pretty thin on the ground.
Added to this is the problem of finding information in this forum. Where do you post? Servers, General, Virtualisation?

[SpiritIsReality]

howdy
Finding the right words to express my desire for, and my hopes for the good that could flow from, an LTSP Forum, is as difficult for me right now, as it is for me to find the help I need, to try and accomplish my dreams of LTSP networks. I sincerely hope you will glean the spirit of what I am trying to say.
Sincerely, SpiritIsReality
trails

[ubuntu-geek]

The people who work on Linux Terminal Server Project are more then welcome to request a 3rd party forum if the currently do not have one.

[SpiritIsReality]

The people who work on Linux Terminal Server Project are more then welcome to request a 3rd party forum if the currently do not have one.
howdy
Thankyou for your post.
Could you please tell me who you mean, and how they would go about requesting a 3rd party forum? Do you mean from ltsp.org and UbuntuLTSP ? To my knowledge and others posting at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=603151
there is an edubuntu irc but no LTSP Forum anywhere to be found.
thankyou
trails

[matthew]

howdy
Thankyou for your post.
Could you please tell me who you mean, and how they would go about requesting a 3rd party forum? Do you mean from ltsp.org and UbuntuLTSP ?The project leaders can come to the Ubuntu Forums and request us to make a place for them in the Third Party Forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=46) section of our site. Requests can be made here (http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=231), using the guidelines in this post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=393914).

[Lem]

I've found who i believe is the project leader. I'll drop him an email to see if he's interested.

[modster78]

Sounds great im all for it! will defo make life easy for all 8)

[Athanasius]

Please, Moderators, make an LTSP sub forum. the edubuntu irc channel is allright but the forums are a better way to find answers.

[Lem]

howdy
Finding the right words to express my desire for, and my hopes for the good that could flow from, an LTSP Forum, is as difficult for me right now, as it is for me to find the help I need, to try and accomplish my dreams of LTSP networks. I sincerely hope you will glean the spirit of what I am trying to say.
Sincerely, SpiritIsReality
trails

That makes me smile every time I read it...

Just to let you all know that I've written a nice email to one of the devs. The forum rules appear to state that one of the devs will have to moderate such a forum, and this obviously requires an active participation on their part.
However, as I stated within my email, I feel this will be good for the LTSP project as a whole.

Fingers crossed!

[drink]

I'm just here to lend my support to the idea of a LTSP forum, so here's my metoo. I'm bald right now, because I just tore out all my hair. LTSP forum ftw etc tyvm hand.

[bazz]

So is there any movement on this??? Like I said. I have been posting all over the net, and even made a how to.....but whats the point if there is no central place.
Ya know...come to think about it...worst case scenario, I could talk to the freespire guys and see if thet could set one up in the freespire forum. Might be another possibility. i just thought it would make more scents to have it here due to Edubuntu.

[SpiritIsReality]

So is there any movement on this??? Like I said. I have been posting all over the net, and even made a how to.....but whats the point if there is no central place.
Ya know...come to think about it...worst case scenario, I could talk to the freespire guys and see if thet could set one up in the freespire forum. Might be another possibility. i just thought it would make more scents to have it here due to Edubuntu.
howdy
good idea
trails

[Lem]

Funnily enough, I've found the best info on Ubuntu LTSP outside of Ubuntu.

Novell has guides for setting up Ubuntu LTSP for every version (the Gutsy one is incomplete at the moment though)

http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php?title=Feisty/HOWTO:_Install_MueKow_on_Ubuntu&redirect=no

And there's some discussion on Ubuntu LTSP over at Freespire

http://ubuntuforums.org/private.php?do=showpm&pmid=390910

I've not heard back from my lead, so no news on that yet. Seems odd to have to get the responsible dev involved for something that comes preloaded in Edubuntu. It's hardly a third-party app. Mr Shuttleworth got the LTSP dev fully onboard to help develop and integrate LTSP 5 Mue-kow.

Maybe I should have been more generic and asked for a 'Thin Client' forum instead!

[SpiritIsReality]

howdy
Good idea! Who's the Thin Client developers? What about Clients? No matter how much weight they're packin' or not packin'. Thin, or! Fat.
Your first link is good. Your second is whadayacall'dit.
Sorry I didn't see your post earlier. I went to town. First on this,
LTSP Documentation Links http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=608744&highlight=documentation well, it was a small town!
and then on shanks pony. haha!
Google shanks pony http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=shanks+pony&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
I got my post at Documentation of Ubuntu cleaned up a bit tonite.(tonight?) This evening. Well I knocked the corners off anyway.
I really get the feeling I don't know what the heck I'm doin'. If there was a forum with...ok . I don't know what to say. And that doesn't happen all the time ya know. ha! It'd sure be grande to get brave enough, and fortunate enough, and skilled enough, and whatever else enough, to get a string of computers together at a drop in center down town! That'd be up town! I like this. I'll like it even more once I get a few things read!
trails

[Lem]

It's half the problem. I've not come across anyone with encyclopaedic knowledge of LTSP, but will a collaborative effort we might get the bones of user guide together.

[SpiritIsReality]

I was thinkin' about that pulling together too. That's where the documentation at help.ubuntu.com/community suffers. If the info is spread all over the internet, it makes it more difficult to transfer it into a page there. With help.ubuntu.com. It's about the same as Samba. Just found this by typing in help.ubuntu.com/Wiki
WikiCourse/BasicIntroduction https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiCourse/BasicIntroduction
I guess this is the new one here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiGuide
At https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ when we can get
LTSP https://help.ubuntu.com/community/?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=ltsp&titlesearch=Titles
... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LTSPHowTo?highlight=%28ltsp%29
... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP?highlight=%28ltsp%29
... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/Tour
to look somethin like this
LTSP https://help.ubuntu.com/community/?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=samba&titlesearch=Titles
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComprehensiveSambaGuide?highlight=%28samba%29
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba?highlight=%28samba%29
At the top of the page your are lookin at right now,
click on Search > Advanced Search > type in ltsp and hit enter. please.
now try Keywork ltsp > Search in Forum > Tutorials & Tips > Search Now
trails

[drink]

Funnily enough, I've found the best info on Ubuntu LTSP outside of Ubuntu.

The thing is that MueKow is designed to be integrated into distributions, maintained by distributions, and supported by distributions. Each distribution is implementing differently (even Debian and Ubuntu) and I want to do things the right way - if only there were some documentation on what the right way is!

For a supposedly open distribution, it often seems like very little of the reasoning behind the activity is made available to the users...

[Lem]

The Novell stuff is surprisingly Ubuntu specific!

The likelihood of an LTSP/Thin Client forum isn't looking good at the moment. We seem to have been stalled by the whole 'you need a dev' thing, which seems a bit daft for what is essentially a major built-in feature of Edubuntu.

Anyway.. I'd leave it for a week and then I'll get some threads going in one of the forums (think we might as well just pick one at random!) and hopefully get enough collective knowledge to start knocking the wiki into shape.

[bazz]

Okay guys...over here
http://forum.freespire.org/forumdisplay.php?f=80

[SpiritIsReality]

howdy!
Look what I fell over a while back and didn't think of posting it here until just now. Thanks for drawing my attention to this thread, bazz .
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=579726
trails

[Lem]

Not a bad idea, but I'd prefer to get the current wiki sorted to be honest. It's the first place people will go and it already exists.

I will be posting a new wiki page for LTSP Gutsy as soon as I've got the spare time. I will attempt to cover wiring, setup, installation, tweaking and troubleshooting in one page. Any other information I gleam will be added, and I encourage users to submit any useful information accordingly.

At least then, most LTSP questions can be directed a single page. If we try to keep the wiki page up to date, we can carry most of it over to Hardy etc when the time comes. It's just a shame we have to search the forum to pick up questions and new info rather than looking in a single spot, but at least it a start!

[Lem]

Please contribute here;
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=611516

[Avinash.Rao]

I was to request the same. It will be great if we could have a separate LTSP forum in this site.
I am really in need to some documentation that could help me fine tune LTSP, some basic commands to see how many users have logged, who has logged in etc.. and many more..

The official LTSP documentation in ubuntu site is good, but a little more on the different commands will help me. :guitar:

Thanks
Avinash

[forestpiskie]

Ifyou had followed the link in first post you would have seen that there is one - it's here

http://forum.freespire.org/forumdisplay.php?f=80

[Avinash.Rao]

Thanks, but this is not Ubuntu specific! Anyways, i can still post questions and answer whatever possible.
:)
Ifyou had followed the link in first post you would have seen that there is one - it's here

http://forum.freespire.org/forumdisplay.php?f=80

[forestpiskie]

Yes - I think that if that didn't do it last year then it's unlikely they'll do it this year.

Good luck

[Avinash.Rao]

Is there a book on configuring/fine tuning LTSP on Ubuntu?
I atleast need to know the basic commands? Where can i get this information?

Thanks
Avinash

[forestpiskie]

I'm sorry but I have no idea - I only answered the thread becasue it was archaeology.

There is a manual at http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Documentation it shows some stuff http://ltsp.mirrors.tds.net/pub/ltsp/docs/ltsp-4.1-en.html#AEN1851 but it all appears to look really old, as does the edubuntu handbook http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/edubuntu/handbook/C/

Maybe a question on the ltsp forum would bear fruit.

Soryy I can't be of more help.

[Avinash.Rao]

Thanks for the links.



I'm sorry but I have no idea - I only answered the thread becasue it was archaeology.

There is a manual at http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Documentation it shows some stuff http://ltsp.mirrors.tds.net/pub/ltsp/docs/ltsp-4.1-en.html#AEN1851 but it all appears to look really old, as does the edubuntu handbook http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/edubuntu/handbook/C/

Maybe a question on the ltsp forum would bear fruit.

Soryy I can't be of more help.

[gfreccia]

Hi,

waiting for LTSP forum...

I'm making some tests with Linux Terminal Server (on Ubuntu) and Alix as thin client.
Alix1d works correctly, but Alix3d3 freezes during the boot (after to have download the image).
Do you have any suggestions? It's due to the fact that Alix3d3 has not PS2 keyboard?

Thank you and Happy New Year.

Giacomo.

[harish.narang2000]

Dear all,
do there is a link from we download bootloader 5.4+ so that it supports in ubuntu10.04 versions ltsp.