[K12OSN] Curious Question

[Eric Harrison]

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 10:12, Matthew Ross wrote:
> Here's a question...
> 
> My boss, as much as he loves our LTSP server so far, would love to have 
> a hot-swap backup server as well. Basically, he's wondering if there is 
> a way to have a fault-tollerant setup for an LTSP server.
> 
> Since the /home directories will be on a diffrent server alltogether, 
> the user's information would still be there even if our LTSP server crashed.
> 
> And I understand that the user's current sessions would fail in the 
> event of a LTSP server failure, but if they rebooted their thin clients, 
> is there a way to have a "backup server" jump in and take over?
> 
> Just a thought...
> 
> --Matt
> 

This is how I setup Riverdale High School. They have four servers,
a user can log into anyone of them. If one fails, they just log back
into one of the other three.

Here is the quick howto I wrote up on this config:

http://www.k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/index.php/Technical%3AXdmChooser


-Eric
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