[Bug 238010] Re: lts.conf doesn't get transferred to the clients

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

The KVM TFTP server also complains about "unsupported mode" when doing
text transfers, so I've switched to binary mode in
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ltsp-
trunk/revision/2774.

It might be a bug in other packages, but it's impossible for LTSP
developers to send patches to all TFTP servers that don't support text
transfers. I'm not even sure if it's mandated from the TFTP protocol or
not.

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Title:
  lts.conf doesn't get transferred to the clients

Status in ltsp package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Ubuntu Hardy 8.04, ltsp-server 5.0.40~bzr20080212-0ubuntu7

  It's actually 2 bugs = 2 lines that need to be changed in usr/share
  /initramfs-tools/scripts/ltsp_nbd

  First, in line 
  tftpath=$(echo ${filename%/*}|tr -d '"')
  if filename=ltsp3.pxe with no path,
  tftpath becomes ltsp3.pxe instead of / or ./

  Second, in the next line,
  (echo "get ${tftpath}/lts.conf"|tftp ${ROOTSERVER} >/dev/null 2>&1)
  I suggest it would be changed to something like
  (echo -e "binary\nget ${tftpath}/lts.conf"|tftp ${ROOTSERVER} >/dev/null 2>&1)
  because at least 2 tftp servers do not support netascii transfer mode
  (dnsmasq < 2.42 and the virtualbox 1.6.2 embedded tftp server when using NAT networking)

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