Fwd: [Pkg-ltsp-devel] About Fat Clients

[Marc Fargas]

Er.. I answered privatelly to Petter forgetting to answer to the
list... sorry :)
Original follows:

Thanks Peter but maybe I missed something, the setup described on the
wiki is almost what I have now, but LTSP runs "ldm" by default which
runs apps on the server, what I'm looking for is to run the KDE or
GNOME session locally or remotelly depending on the box.

i.e. on my computer LTSP would show me kdm or whatever is better and
start the KDE session on my computer locally while the computer next
to me would run LDM and then KDE on the server 'cause it's not so
powerfull.

So how could I make this "remote/local KDE" switch work ?

Cheers,
Marc.

On 11/7/06, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
> [Marc Fargas]
> > I'm now planning to deploy Debian on about 40-50 machines but while
> > some of them are really old and would benefit on running things on a
> > server some of them can handle all processing power by themselves,
> > therefore; Is there any Fat Client support? so they use LTSP to get
> > the rootfs and so but run apps locally, not on the server. While still
> > being able to have some other boxes to use LTSP normally.
>
> Debian Edu/Skolelinux have a script to enable diskless workstation
> support in LTSP.  We already have LDAP authentication enabled, so this
> is mostly a question of installing application locally and making sure
> the machine still boot with a read-only file system.
>
> Check out <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/LtspDisklessWorkstation>
> for info on how to enable it.
>
> Friendly,
> --
> Petter Reinholdtsen
>