Re: [Thinstation-general] conf file trouble in 2.0b3

[Mike E. <km...@ma...>]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Simon Desnoyers wrote:

> Thanks Mike,
> 
> A session 0 must be defined... Ok.... Must it be Blackbox? Can it be
> rdesktop for example?

Yes, any session type is possible. I use rdesktop for several clients. 
(remember the "-4" option if you connect to NT4TSE. With win2k-server and 
win2k3 this isn't a problem).

> Does the screen parameter only use for dual monitor setup?

Honestly, I don't know... I use "0" or "1", seems the same to me, but I 
have no dual monitor setups. I wanted to ask Miles about it, but forgot. 

Miles?
 
Mike

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Eriksen" <km...@ma...>
> To: "Alain Drolet" <ad...@gr...>
> Cc: <thi...@li...>
> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 11:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [Thinstation-general] conf file trouble in 2.0b3
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Alain Drolet wrote:
> >
> > > Geez, I must be missing something!  After reading the README file and
> > > everything I still can start a single thin Station.  I don't have a high
> > > knowledge of X but...
> > >
> > > Here is what I did,
> > > 1-edit build.conf and made no change to thinstation.buildtime (must I
> edit
> > > something in this file? or the default one should work)
> > > 2-build a nbi image
> > > 3-upload it to my TFTP server with the thinstation.conf.example
> > > 4-rename thinsation.conf with my IP Address following it. Made no change
> to
> > > the example file (must I edit anything to get it started, or even my no
> > > modifs it will start?)
> >
> > You better make a copy of thinstation.conf.example and rename it
> > thinstation.buildtime (or you can just have it as
> > thinstation.conf.network on your tftp server). Edit this one and then
> > build:
> >
> > NET_USE_DHCP=Off
> > NET_IP_ADDRESS=192.168.0.1
> > NET_MASK=255.255.255.0
> > NET_GATEWAY=192.168.0.254
> > NET_USE_TFTP=On
> > NET_DNS1=192.168.0.2
> > NET_DNS2=192.168.0.3
> > NET_DNS_SEARCH=your.org
> >
> > (change numbers to match your environment).
> >
> > > I get the error no valid session type.
> >
> > You *must* have a SESSION_0_ defined!!! This will give you "blacbbox":
> >
> > SESSION_0_TYPE=blackbox
> > SESSION_0_SCREEN=1
> >
> > (requires blackbox to be included in build.conf, obviously :-)
> >
> > > Can someone point me out some info on those session and how they are
> > > numbered.  Can you switch between the in X?
> >
> > They are numbered consecutively... You switch with Ctrl-Alt-Fn
> >
> > Mike
> > -- 
> > Thinstation FAQ maintainer
> > http://thinstation.sourceforge.net
> > - a light, full featured linux based thin client OS
> 

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