<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PostalCode"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/>  <style>  </style> </DEFANGED_STYLE> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> <div DEFANGED_STYLE="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"> <div> Hi Everybody,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’ve just setup a server with K12LTSP 4.4.1 and had everything working fine until I imported users and rsync’d the home folders ~ now none of the terminals will boot – they hang with the messages below. Free beer and a round of golf at our course if you can help!<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> New server setup was as follows:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> From Last year’s FC3 sever (same machine as this year):<o:p></o:p> Export Users to our FC4 (4.4.1) proxy server via Webmin<o:p></o:p> Export home folders to proxy server with rsync –essh –av . 192.168.0.12:/home<o:p></o:p> Ignore message about possible “man in the middle attack”<o:p></o:p> Clean, default, install of LTSP 4.4.1 on old server (now new server).<o:p></o:p> Setup DNS on new server <o:p></o:p> All terminals boot without problems (by either PXE or Universal Floppy)<o:p></o:p> Install Webmin on new server.<o:p></o:p> Import users from proxy server to new server via Webmin<o:p></o:p> Export home folders from proxy server to new server with rsync –essh –av . 192.168.0.254:/home<o:p></o:p> Ignore message about possible “man in the middle attack”<o:p></o:p> Home folders moved without incident.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Terminals now hang with the following message:<o:p></o:p> (by PXE)<o:p></o:p> Client Mac Addr: 00 13 90 00 f7 a7<o:p></o:p> Client IP: 192.168.0.192 Mask 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 192.168.0.254<o:p></o:p> Gateway IP: 192.168.0.254<o:p></o:p> PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout<o:p></o:p> TFTP…<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> -or, by universal floppy<o:p></o:p> Me: 192.168.0.188 Server: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.0.254<o:p></o:p> Loading 192.168.0.254:/lts/vmlinuz.ltsp…..<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Eventually they both declare boot failure and request a reset.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> We have a wide variety of terminals and all show this message (with changing local IP’s)<o:p></o:p> The server appears to be working fine, handing out addresses to both Win and Linux machines, as well as network devices<o:p></o:p> Internet through K12LTSP server is fine<o:p></o:p> Samba from Proxy is also fine.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Yum updating all now and hoping that a reboot will fix it, but I doubt it as I’ve already repeated everything above, just to see if I screwed something up the first time…<o:p></o:p> I have very limited knowledge of how Linux works, so any help to get our campus going would be really appreciated…<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks<o:p></o:p> ~Alex<o:p></o:p> <div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'> <o:p> </o:p> </div> Alexander Hicks<o:p></o:p> Technology Coordinator<o:p></o:p> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Shaker</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Road</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p> <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">131 Shaker Road</st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Concord</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">NH</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">03301</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><o:p></o:p> (603) 224-0161 ~ Voice<o:p></o:p> (603) 226-0257 ~ Fax<o:p></o:p> <a href="mailto:a_hicks@shakerroad.pvt.k12.nh.us">a_hicks@shakerroad.pvt.k12.nh.us</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>