Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Retaining the individual IP Addresses

[Kelly S. <ke...@mo...>]

Thank you,
> 
> That makes perfect sense, but let me go a little further and maybe you 
> can shed some more light on this.
> 
> I am trying to get a workstation to login automatically. My DHCP.conf is 
> located on the dhcp server which is not the same as the terminal 
> server.  So far, I have three PC's successfully booting from floppies 
> and I am able to login to the terminal server from each one.  (These 
> PC's normally dual boot to Linux and/or Windows and have static 
> addresses.)  So, to avoid confusion, I set up the dhcpd.conf file to 
> give those three workstations(PC's) their usual IP addresses.)  Like the 
> following:
> 
> #Kelly's terminal
> host ws001 {
>         hardware ethernet     00:50:FC:84:DX:EX;
>         fixed-address         192.168.1.188;
>         filename              "lts/vmlinuz-2.4.26-ltsp-3";
>        }
> 
> #Another terminal
> host ws002{ etc.........
> 
> (Everything works fine to this point.)
> 
> Then, to allow my workstation to auto login, I added to the file 
> /opt/kde/share/config/kdm/kdmrc the following lines:
> 
> /[X-ws001:0-Core]
> AutoLoginEnable=true
> AutoLoginUser=kelly
> ClientLogFile=.xsession-errors
> 
> [X-ws188:0-Core]
> AutoLoginEnable=true
> AutoLoginUser=kelly
> ClientLogFile=.xsession-errors
> 
> [Xdmcp]
> Enable=true
> Willing=/opt/kde/share/config/kdm/Xwilling
> Xaccess=/opt/kde/share/config/kdm/Xaccess/
> 
> (I wasn't sure if my workstation was considered ws001 or ws188 since the 
> IP (188) was assigned in dhcpd.conf, so I added both.  Can you tell me 
> how I can tell which it should be?) 
> 
> I know this file is being read because changes to the greet string are 
> reflected when I made them.  Yet, when I reboot the workstation, I still 
> get a login screen.  I've read all the hints I could find on the 
> subject, but I must be missing something.
> 
> I really appreciate any help.
> 
> Thanks again.



Peter Billson wrote:
> Kelly Solomon said:
>   
>> Hello,
>> I'm new to LTSP and running slackware 10.2 on the server and LTSP 5.1.
>>
>> My understanding so far is that every terminal logging into the server
>> uses the initial IP address (from the DHCP server) to simply reach the
>> Term Server. After that the IP address of the server is used for every
>> workstation.  Is this correct?
>>
>> If so, is there any way for the workstations to retain their own IP
>> addresses after logging into the server?
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kelly
>>     
>
>
> Kelly,
>  Not quite right.
>
>  Each terminal has its own IP address and keeps it.
>
>  What happens is that once you are in an X session all the processes are
> actually running on the server, not the terminal, so any network traffic
> generated by those processes (i.e. Net traffic from a Web browser) will
> appear to be (and actually will be) coming from the server's IP.
>
>
> Pete Billson
>