Fat clients or standalone for DVD watching?

[David Van Assche]

The Fat client setup is more than enough for running multimedia apps on, in
fact it was thought out with that in mind. I've tested it with KDE, XFCE and
Gnome and all work quite well. I would advise that you first install the
environment with the plugin, then enter the chroot and install LDAP and NFS,
as well as all the multimedia apps you're gonna need.

It would be nice if someone could figure out how to mount via sshfs instead
of nfs (the latter seems a bit jerky sometimes, plus there is the security
issue.) I've been unable to tunnel the /home through ssh... too complicated
for me... but there are people on this list who could do it in seconds ;-)

When setting up the LDAP server on the ubuntu box, there are some things
that don't work quite as they should when going through some of the wikis.
For example, when installing smbldap-tools, it should copy a bunch of
scripts that allow you to migrate the unix users to LDAP, but nothing
happens. So you manually have to copy the scripts from here:
/usr/share/doc/smbldap-tools/examples/migrationscripts as well as the
smb.conf, smbldap.conf and smbldap_bind.conf found in the examples directory
to /etc/smbldap-tools. Then edit the smb*.conf files so that you have the
right LDAP server settings in there.

As Gavin said, it seems silly to install the environment in a local
harddrive... it would be better from an administration point to make it a
chroot so you only have to update one location, as opposed to every fat
client... so diskless would be the way to go.

Kind Regards,
David Van Assche

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 18 May 2008, Tom Atkins wrote:
>
> > We are buying a couple of new PCs  for 'multimedia' in the same lab - in
> > particular watching of DVD's and burning CD's.  What is the best way to
> set
> > these up? Should I just install Ubuntu locally on each of the new PCs and
> > then use NFS and LDAP for authentication and file sharing to the server?
> Or
> > would the LTSP Fat client setup work for DVD watching?
>
> From a maintenance point of view (applying patches, adding packages, disk
> failures, keeping the installs consistent), the LTSP stuff would be handy.
> Local desktops might have some advantages too though.
>
> > Fat client setup as described here:
>
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients
> >
> > If the Fat Client setup would work, would the Fat Clients be diskless or
> > would I need to buy hard drives?
>
> The general idea is that they would be diskless though they could I guess
> have local storage if you wanted it.  It seems to miss the point if you
> need to do that though.
>
> Gavin
>
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