Greetings in the name of Jah, I am new to LTSP, i want to set up demo network, i have been reading. I see where alot of the group members have setup very large networks, i would like to set up just a small network of about five pc, with a single server, <ul><li>can anyone tell me where is a good source for terminal machines, are parts to build such terminals.</li><li> Whats the best route to take, build a home brew server or buy a server. </li><li>Are there any good tutorials about building a LTSP server from scratch. </li></ul> Blessings to one all <div>On 5/29/07, john <<a href="mailto:lists.john@gmail.com">lists.john@gmail.com </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all, I hope folks can give me a sanity check before I begin a large scale (35 client) roll out at one of our schools this summer. First the scenario, then the question. I plan to setup a robust server LTSP server, with /homes stored centrally on different "backend" server. This "backend" server will provide authentication for LTSP clients via LDAP, but users will be drawn from Active Directory using SAMBA to integrate with our existing domain. Windows users and LTSP users network share should be accessable either as \home while on LTSP or as a network share when using WindowsXP. Hardware 35 thin clients clients 1 LTSP server (2 duel core opteron 8100, 8 Gigs of ram, Edubuntu 7.04) 1 "backend" file server doing NFS, SAMBA, LDAP and Webdav, 3 Ghz workstation with 4Gb ram (Centos or Ubuntu LTS 6.06) 1 Dedicated Gig E switch Software/networking: 1. The LTSP server will authenticates clients via the LDAP backend server. Users home directories will be stored on the backend server. 2. The LDAP backend server is joined to our Windows AD Domain, via winbind and linux user accounts are automagically created via SAMBA which stores account info in LDAP per <a href="http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/idmapper.html#id369912">http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/idmapper.html#id369912</a> My question are: 1) What am I missing, forgetting etc? 2) Is my authentication scheme nuts? I can't dump Active Directory, but is there a better way to do this? 2) Do I need a "real" server doing RAID 5 or whatever for the LDAP Backend 3) Am I REALLY off base with my proposed setup? Many thanks for any and all ideas! John _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>