[Ltsp-discuss] LMDE

[Vagrant C. <va...@de...>]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 07:37:20PM +0200, Fabrizio Carrai wrote:
> We just implemented a LMDE LTSP server at our Linux User Group lab so we are
> just starting learning LTSP and I apologize for the newbie questions:

Linux Mint Debian Edition?


> Is it correct that the Thin/Fat client mount via NFS their filesystem ? (If
> think yes, since I had to update the "export" file...)

Debian uses NFS by default. It can be configured to use NFS or NBD.

Ubuntu uses NBD dy default. It can be configured to use NBD or NFS.


> What are the steps I have to do if I want to ad files (documents, picture,
> etc...) to the file systems shared by the clients ?
> What are the steps if I want to add an application ready for the clients ? (an
> example, "mc")

For Thin clients, all files and applications present on the server are
available to the users logged in via the thin clients. So, to install an
application:

  apt-get install mc

All files on the server will be available to all users, as they are logged in
to the server itself.


For Fat clients, you need to install applications into the LTSP chroot:

  ltsp-chroot apt-get install mc

If configured for NBD with Fat clients, you'll need to update the NBD image
also:

  ltsp-update-image

If you want to add read-only files to the Fat Client image, you'll need to put
those in /opt/ltsp/i386 (or /opt/ltsp/amd64) and re-run ltsp-update-image any
time you make changes.

For writeable files available to the Fat client, there are many options,
depending on your needs. You can configure it to mount any remote filesystem
you want using FSTAB_0 in lts.conf. See the lts.conf manpage from the ltsp-docs
package, which also contains the LTSP manual, which will at least explain some
of the basics in more detail.


Good luck!


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