Life after LTSP

[Odin Nøsen]

> Odin - tell me. How did you build system of DRBL and LTSP in same 
> network? Some guidelines?

Oh... it's not really that difficult - but it is a bit "hacky".

We have a central 389DS that authenticates all users (LDAP) and a central DHCP-server
that controls whether clients are LTSP or DRBL.

The LTSP-setup is rather default for system with several TS's and central file servers.

The DRBL-setup is more hackish... I've defines one nic for each subnet (we have 7) and a
nic for the "wan"-network. (OK the wan-nic is real, and I have a second nic that is all
the other 7 subnets (eth1:1 / eth1:2...) I give the wan-nic IP 192.168.1.21 and the
seven lan-nics IPs like 192.168.10.21 / 192.168.11.21 / 192.168.12.21 /192.168.13.21...
you'll get the picture. I then use the normal DRBL-setup, but turn off DHCP in the
DRBL-server and make some important changes in some of the drbl-scrips to get
LDAP-working instead of NIS (follow the DRBL-link later in this email).

You could use this link to get a general description of what we've done:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=no&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=no&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnuskole.no&act=url

This link is for the DRBL-setup:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=no&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=no&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnuskole.no&act=url

This works quite well... :-)

We've also setup FreeNX, so that Win/OSX (and Linux) clients that teachers and students
bring along also get access to the system.


Odin