[Lias] LTSP Questions

[Craig Ringer]

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 20:39, Simon Bryan wrote:

> I am in the middle of setting up an LTSP4 network running on Fedora Core
> 1.

Cool. I use LTSP here with great results - lots of our users have only
basic needs, and they're quite fine with XFCE4 running with LTSP. A
couple of the journalists now use it as well, but with KDE 3.2.

> 1. Two boot fine, until they reach the end of the character screen boot
> and the X-server should start up, the monitors just shutdown, no picture
> at all. I have seen distorted pictures before but never this behaviour.
> The same CPU and similar (but not exactly the same) monitor is working
> fine.

Have you tried a working monitor on a non-working machine and vice-versa
to see what happens?

> 2. Two boot all the way to the X-server then fail, forgot the actual
> words, but it is an X-Server fail. The reasonbeing 'you need to define a
> keyboard in XF86.conf. Trouble is there does seem to be a keyboard already
> defined.

Odd.

> 3. Have setup printers, directly attached to workstations and shared to
> the network. These work fine, but how do I get one of them to be the
> default printer for a user, rather than the 'Generic Printer'

Which application? Are you using CUPS or something older? Does
everything show up as expected in CUPS (http://localhost:631/)?

There's no consistency in Linux printing yet, sadly, so it all varies by
app.

Mozilla needs some environment variables set:

export MOZILLA_POSTSCRIPT_PRINTER_LIST="xerox typeset accounts"

for example. In OpenOffice, run spadmin and configure things there.

KDE and GNOME offer "consistent" print interfaces, but only within apps
targeted for that environment. I don't know much about configuring them.

Craig Ringer