Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltspfs and rdesktop issue ?!

[Luis S. <lui...@ba...>]

Gideon Romm,

Excellent guess and solution ;) you're the Man

I was thinking going back to the old solution (automount+smb), but this is
mutch better.

I didn't the tested fully yet but at the first try I get some good output.

Thank you

> Scotty,
>
> I believe he means without a Linux desktop - ie, localdev+RDP.
>
> Luis, I have a package on the wiki's WorkInProgress page that makes this
> work.  It actually runs lbussd on the client side, so you would run
> rdesktop with:
>
> rdesktop -r disk:drives=/Drives <ip>
>
> and map a share on the windows box to:  \\tsclient\drives
>
> If you have difficulty installing the package, pop into #ltsp on IRC,
> and I can walk you thru it.
>
>
> This is prolly not going to be the final solution.  We are adjusting the
> scheme for LTSP5 somewhat.  But, this package will at least keep you
> from being held up going to 4.2.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Gadi
>
> On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 11:06 -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:44:25PM +0100, Luis Sousa wrote:
>> > Looking at the ltsp-discuss archives it seems that accessing local
>> storage
>> > with rdesktop does not work.
>>
>> Well, it can be made to work, but there's a few caveats:
>>
>> 1) You have you store the home directories on the Linux server, and
>> 2) You have to export them via samba.
>>
>> If you add "user_allow_other" to your /etc/fuse.conf file, and add the
>> option "-o allow_root" to the ltspfs mount in the lbus_event_handler.sh
>> script, it should work.
>>
>> I have not permanently added these to the packages, because:
>>
>> 1) I don't have a windows server to test reliably against.
>> 2) It lessens the security of the ltspfs mounts slightly, and
>> 3) It's not something I need. :)
>>
>> Hopefully this should be enough to get you going.
>>
>> Scott
>>
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