[Ltsp-discuss] very lean and clean ltsp

[Johan Kragsterman]

Hi!


I have had this idea for a while now, and I would like to bring it up to this discussion list.

I would like to have an LTSP server that ONLY serves fat clients, and ONLY provides the tftp and chroot services. No dhcp service, no user service, I would like to add users from LDAP(only a root user in chroot), and I would like these users to get their home dirs from nfs. Swap perhaps also on nfs, or perhaps on a small local ssd. No routing pass-through the server, but strait to the gateway that provides the dhcp services.


What kind of difficulties would I encounter here...? Someone like to elaborate or continue...?



Why would I like it like this? In my opinion the fat client environment have many problems. One is the problem that there is no user, and another one is that the user is on the server. There are other problems like sound as well. LTSP is also very complex, too complex...IMHO.
I run my LTSP server environment as a KVM virtual machine(right now edubuntu) on Illumos/ZFS, and I already got a lot of services in there on Illumos/OmniOS, as nfs, dhcp, dns, ldap, etc. I don't need and want duplications in the LTSP environment as well. I just want LTSP to be able to provide a chroot environment served by tftp, and beeing able to build and update the images. Lean and clean virtual machine(heh-he, rhyme)...


Best regards from/Med vänliga hälsningar från

Johan Kragsterman

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Just install a template client and then run ltsp-pnp on it:
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Post by Johan Kragsterman
Hi!
I have had this idea for a while now, and I would like to bring it up to this discussion list.
I would like to have an LTSP server that ONLY serves fat clients, and ONLY provides the tftp and chroot services. No dhcp service, no user service, I would like to add users from LDAP(only a root user in chroot), and I would like these users to get their home dirs from nfs. Swap perhaps also on nfs, or perhaps on a small local ssd. No routing pass-through the server, but strait to the gateway that provides the dhcp services.
What kind of difficulties would I encounter here...? Someone like to elaborate or continue...?
Why would I like it like this? In my opinion the fat client environment have many problems. One is the problem that there is no user, and another one is that the user is on the server. There are other problems like sound as well. LTSP is also very complex, too complex...IMHO.
I run my LTSP server environment as a KVM virtual machine(right now edubuntu) on Illumos/ZFS, and I already got a lot of services in there on Illumos/OmniOS, as nfs, dhcp, dns, ldap, etc. I don't need and want duplications in the LTSP environment as well. I just want LTSP to be able to provide a chroot environment served by tftp, and beeing able to build and update the images. Lean and clean virtual machine(heh-he, rhyme)...
Best regards from/Med vänliga hälsningar från
Johan Kragsterman
Capvert