Using nubae fatclient [was Re: which release to use?]

[Sameer Verma]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
> From what I can see, u are very close. The problem u have is that you
> have not created the nfs based home dirs to be able to share
> /home/username/.
>
> U should be doing this (taken from my site):
>
> sudo apt-get install portmap nfs-kernel-server nfs-common
> echo "/home 192.168.0.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,async)" | sudo tee -a
> /etc/exports /dev/null
> sudo exportfs -a
>

I've done this. I tried it a second time, but got duplicate entries. I
fixed those manually. When I sudo exportfs -a I get

exportfs: /etc/exports [1]: Neither 'subtree_check' or
'no_subtree_check' specified for export "192.168.0.0/24:/home".
  Assuming default behaviour ('no_subtree_check').
  NOTE: this default has changed since nfs-utils version 1.0.x


> Also, as u correctly guessed, eth1 is normally the internal IP... so
> switch those 2 around either in the script, or in the server....

I switched these in the script. I'm rebuilding the client. Let's see
what happens...

Another thing to note is that it takes forever to re-download packages
and build images, so I installed apt-cacher and that thing is an
absolute boon! Now rebuilding images from scratch are a cinch!

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/BuildLTSPWithAptCacher

Sameer
>
> kind Regards,
> David
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:47 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah asking on the list is fine... or private to me otherwise... but
>> this way others can benefit from the messages too. First... can u tell
>> me your infrastructure (server, release, TC details.) I'll take a look
>> at the errors u are getting now and post on that soon.
>>
>> David (nubae)
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:33 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Well, considering fatclient is not 'officially' supported, bug reports
>>>> are a bit irrelevant, though I would welcome any help with getting the
>>>> script working under Hardy.  To be honest I haven't looked at the
>>>> fatclient script in a while, but I'll set up a test environment with
>>>> hardy and go from there. I'll let you know where I get stuck, and if
>>>> you can help, that would be much appreciated. Last time I checked, one
>>>> couldn't even get to the ldm screen if I remember correctly.
>>>>
>>>> kind Regards,
>>>> David Van Assche
>>>> www.nubae.com
>>>
>>> Since the fatclient script from nubae is not officially supported, I'm
>>> not sure where I should post questions. I'm going to post them here
>>> and hope I can get some answers. I'm trying out the fatclient script
>>> from http://www.nubae.com/ltsp-linux-terminal-server-project-netbooted-fat-client-for-ubuntu-hardy-and-intrepid
>>> (David's site) and get a bunch of errors. I took a few photos of the
>>> thin client when it boots up (I couldn't capture the log on the thin
>>> client because the system becomes unusable quickly). Photos are at
>>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/files/ltsp-fatclient-errors.zip
>>>
>>> My questions:
>>>
>>> 1) When running the script as indicated on the site, I get to a point
>>> where it asks for main user with root privileges. I am assuming this
>>> is the user on the server who has root privileges via sudo?
>>>
>>> 2) What went wrong? (see photos at
>>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/files/ltsp-fatclient-errors.zip)
>>>
>>> Any help would be great. The default thin client works fine, but the
>>> server gets overloaded when using multimedia apps, which is what we'll
>>> be doing this semester (begins next week). If nothing works, I'll fall
>>> back to the default thin client.
>>>
>>> Sameer
>>> --
>>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>>> Associate Professor of Information Systems
>>> San Francisco State University
>>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
>>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
>>>