Topic: Installing LTSP on SME Server 7 Beta

[EnglishRob]

Hi folks,

I've recently been playing around with the Linux Terminal Server Project on a Debian 3.1 system.  It is just the sort of thing I'm looking for to make use of an older PC as a terminal server.

At the moment I have an SME Server 6.0.1 box used as a mail server (downloading mail from various pop3 accounts).

What I would like to acheve, is installing a new copy of SME Server 7 which would share out files in ibays, provide e-mail and also work as a terminal server using the LSTP packages.

I have tried a basic install of SME Server 7, but so far haven't had much luck in getting X.org installed.    I can't say I'm an expert on this, and I'm not sure what packages need to be installed for a useable base Gnome configuration.

Rob

[duncan]

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[gregswallow]

SME 7 uses packages from Centos 4.1 (centos.org), so any other packages you want it would be best to use the ones from there.

[EnglishRob]

Thanks for the info.

I had searched a bit before, but I guess I was looking for the wrong search terms.

I'll have a play with it later.

Rob

[grand-pa]

Hi,

I'm about to try an install of LTSP 4.1.1 on SME v7.0b5 and i would like to know if anybody has yet been able to successfully install it.
It would just be used for 6 PXE clients running OOo2, Firefox and Thunderbird.

So, i'm very interrested about any tips or howtos that could help me for this implementation.

Last, i don't know a lot about UML (User-Mode Linux), but would it be a good idea to install LTSP (TFTP, NFS Server, X, etc.) over it ? And is it even possible ?

[EnglishRob]

I wasn't able to get a sucessful install done when I tried it.  I can't remember which Beta of SME Server 7 I tried.

I got LTSP working nicely on Debian 3.1.  I was in a bit of a rush to get it all working.  I am planning on trying it again, although I'm without my own PC at home at the moment after the motherboard stopped working

IIRC, you need to install X.org, this is where I got stuck.

Rob

[duncan]

So, i'm very interrested about any tips or howtos that could help me for this implementation.

Getting X to work is pretty easy. Check my post above.

I would suggest using the contribs from here to take care of your tftp and pxe requirements. I use the Thinstation version for booting RDP clients here. I have not tested it on a SME7 install - but it should work.

[grand-pa]

As I'm writing this message with Firefox on an SME v7.0b5 (SO mode), I want to thank you for your tips !

Short howto for a basic Gnome installation :

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yum install gdm gnome-session gnome-terminal gedit fonts-xorg-100dpi fonts-xorg-75dpi fonts-xorg-truetype
yum install firefox thunderbird gftp gimp gpdfYou have to accept the tens of dependencies.
The most "difficult" part of the Xorg installation is its configuration. I tried

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Xorg -configure
cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and just modified the screen resolution, keyboard (pc105, fr) and mouse (/dev/input/mice) configurations. Now, startx works well, even from a standard user shell.

I'll just have to find out repositories for the latests OOo2 (final version on next thursday if everything goes well) and sarg (2.0.9) versions.

For the LTSP part, i've yet installed the NFS and TFTP servers (portmap and xinetd as dependencies), modified configuration files and templates. I'll tell you when everything will be a success.

[grand-pa]

Done !    
I'm writing from a diskless computer via an SME v7b5 (private S&G mode) server (DELL PowerEdge 2500, bi-PIII Xeon 1266 MHz, 768 Mo RAM, 67 Go RAID-5).

Now, i have to find out how to use the transproxy from localhost, install dansguardian and sarg.
Then, complete my howto and translate it into english.

Finished for today, goto

[grand-pa]

I forgot : i can't login with a standard user on gdm even if i've changed it's shell (i can login in shell mode with this user).
I haven't yet looked for this issue, so if anybody has an idea...

[gregswallow]

Not sure if you've seen that Stephen Noble has made a dansguardian and smeserver-dansguardian rpms for SME7.  I haven't tried it myself but I believe that will force the use of the proxy.

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dungog/packages/smeserver/7.0/i386/dungog/RPMS/

Looking forward to your howto

[grand-pa]

I've installed Stephen's RPMs but it doesn't seem to work :

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2005/10/24 13:25:09| aclParseAclLine: Invalid Proxy Auth ACL 'acl authorized proxy_auth REQUIRED' because no authentication schemes are fully configured.
FATAL: Bungled squid.conf line 19: acl authorized proxy_auth REQUIRED
Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE6): Terminated abnormally.
So, i'm affraid, i'm not yet able to force users to pass thru the local proxy.

I'm still working on the howto to implement the access to the client's floppy/cdrom/usb drives. I hope i will soon have solved all the problems.

[gaetanl]

Hi,
I have installed  SME 7 Beta8 ... your instruction for installing xorg works very well.

I then install SME  7 Beta9, and tried to run the same thing ... This time,  yum can find the package ("no  match found").
Doyou know  how I could install Xorg on the latest beta version of SME.
What's so different between Beta 8 and Beta 9 ?
Regards
Gaëtan

As I'm writing this message with Firefox on an SME v7.0b5 (SO mode), I want to thank you for your tips !

Short howto for a basic Gnome installation :

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yum install gdm gnome-session gnome-terminal gedit fonts-xorg-100dpi fonts-xorg-75dpi fonts-xorg-truetype
yum install firefox thunderbird gftp gimp gpdfYou have to accept the tens of dependencies.
The most "difficult" part of the Xorg installation is its configuration. I tried

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Xorg -configure
cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and just modified the screen resolution, keyboard (pc105, fr) and mouse (/dev/input/mice) configurations. Now, startx works well, even from a standard user shell.

I'll just have to find out repositories for the latests OOo2 (final version on next thursday if everything goes well) and sarg (2.0.9) versions.

For the LTSP part, i've yet installed the NFS and TFTP servers (portmap and xinetd as dependencies), modified configuration files and templates. I'll tell you when everything will be a success.

[Robert]

What's so different between Beta 8 and Beta 9 ?

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=30043.0
Besides the CentOS updates repository, the CentOS base repository is disabled in SME7b9 as well.

Robert

[gaetanl]

Thanks  for the info Robert.