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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: dennyhalim on June 08, 2007, 05:00:55 PM

Title: thin client server with other box as dhcp server?
Post by: dennyhalim on June 08, 2007, 05:00:55 PM

i just saw this:
http://wiki.contribs.org/Thinclient

wondering if it can work fine if the dhcp server is not smeserver?
since my sme is not acting as dhcp server.

or...
can smeserver only act as dhcp server for thin clients and all other clients gets their ip from another dhcp server?

how do i make setup like one of the above alternatives?

tia

Title: thin client server with other box as dhcp server?
Post by: Franco on June 09, 2007, 05:08:47 PM

You would need to set up MAC restrictions in each DHCP server. This is fairly easy with SME:

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mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/dhcpd.conf

echo " deny unknown-clients;" > etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/dhcpd.conf/25DenyUnknownHost
Then reload the DHCP server.
This means that only registered clients can get an IP address from the server.

Title: Re: thin client server with other box as dhcp server?
Post by: TrevorB on June 11, 2007, 10:10:51 AM

Quote from: "dennyhalim"

http://wiki.contribs.org/Thinclient

wondering if it can work fine if the dhcp server is not smeserver?
since my sme is not acting as dhcp server.

smeserver-thinclient does all the dhcp stuff for you, so there isn't much use in this contrib if you are using another server as your dhcp.

You can still supply your images from your smeserver via tftp (smeserver-tftp-server (http://wiki.contribs.org/Tftp_server)) if you configure your dhcp server to use the smeserver as your tftp server (next-server parameter in dhcpd - don't know much about MS stuff).

Put all of your files in /tftpboot e.g.
/tftpboot/pxelinux.0
/tftpboot/initrd
/tftpboot/vmlinuz
/tftpboot/<config files>
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

Quote from: "dennyhalim"

can smeserver only act as dhcp server for thin clients and all other clients gets their ip from another dhcp server?

Probably more hassle than it's worth. If you set up your tftp server, you'll probably find that there isn't much need to change it.

Good Luck!
Trevor B