[K12OSN] Usb drives + ltsp + nautilus trouble

[Trond Mæhlum]

This worked perfectly. No need to do the extra install. Thank you!

Trond


> Trond-
> 
> I'm not sure if it made it into K12's packages, but we fixed this in
> LTSP.  The trick is a slightly modified version of smbd running on the
> client and a dfree script used to report a fake available disk space to
> Nautilus.
> 
> Nautilus is the only one of konqueror, command line, etc, that checks
> available disk space prior to copying, and with the current local
> devices approach, the disk space needs to be fudged.
> 
> In short, try this:
> 
> 1.  Add the following line to your /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.localdev, at
> the end of the [global] section:
> 
>          dfree command    = /sbin/dfree
> 
> 2.  Then, create a file:  /opt/ltsp/i386/sbin/dfree
>     that looks like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> TOTAL=524288
> AVAILABLE=$TOTAL
> echo $TOTAL $AVAILABLE 4096
> 
> 3. chmod 755 /opt/ltsp/i386/sbin/dfree
> 4. reboot the terminal.
> 5. log into server
> 6. in a terminal window type:  df -v
> 
> If your drives directory has ~2GB available space, then the above worked
> and so should transfering files to your pen drive.
> 
> If not, then most likely you will need to install the patched version of
> smbd for the terminal by:
> 
> 
> 1.  cd /opt/ltsp
> 2.  wget ftp://symbio-technologies.com/ltsp-samba-1.0-1-i386.tgz
>     **** beware:  15MB file ****
> 3.  tar xvfz <filename>
> 4. reboot terminal
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -Gadi
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 20:17 +0200, Trond Mæhlum wrote:
> 
>>I'm running K12LTSP 4.4 and have integrated the localdevice scripts from 
>>ltsp.org's wiki into it. It's working. I use IceWM and Nautilus. My 
>>trouble is that when I mount a usb pen Nautilus reports free space as 0. 
>>I can make new folders, but no files. If I open Openoffice I can save 
>>directly to the pen with no trouble.
>>
>>If I start Konqueror I do no have this problem. In Konqueror I can drag 
>>files to the pen, copy and paste. And it works. But on our system, 
>>Konqueror is much slower when using IceWM than Nautilus.
>>
>>Anybody else seen this?
>>
>>Regards Trond Maehlum
>>
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