[K12OSN] problems booting terminal

[Chris Thomas]

Hello,

Ive read somewhere that the 'grey screen with the big
X' probmlem most likely has to do with name
resolution. So check your hosts file and your DNS
server (if you are running one) to see if everything
is configured correctly and that you can resolve the
names of the thin clients you are tying to boot.

Chris
 
--- Joshua Sanders <ism at ywammt.org> wrote:

> I just installed the a clean version of K12LTSP
> (4.0.1) and sent the last
> few days configuring it. I took over this network
> second hand so I spent
> some time and really ripped this server apart to
> understand how it all
> works. It is kinds of a custom network with one
> server acting as NIS, NAS
> (Home Directories, and DNS all on that server and 4
> other terminal servers
> around the campus calling information from them.)
> 
> I got the server working fine with NIS and
> everything... and all looks
> well until I switch a computer that server's group
> in dhcpd.conf - the
> computer loads fine and gets all the way to loading
> a graphical scene of X
> - (a grey screen with an 'X' icon for the mouse) and
> goes no further. I
> cannot figure out what would stop them from loading
> after they were that
> far along in the boot process. I am writing because
> I wondered if there
> was a new 'fix' or 'update' (since I was using
> K12LTSP v3.0) that would
> cause this server to not want to 'play' with all my
> other servers.
> 
> (I have turned off named and mnt'd home from my home
> server... as well as
> varified NIS is Working locally on the Server.)
> 
> Any other thoughts
> (Oh, and though our network may sound impressive, I
> am pretty new at Linux
> so if you think of something stupid that everyone
> would know to do...
> please let me know. ;)
> 
> Joshua
> 
> 
> 
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