[K12OSN] Dell Client boot trouble - NEWBIE

[Jim McQuillan]

Kevin,

If your home directories are on your LTSP server, there is NOTHING that 
you need to do, to configure that.  That's the default case.

Also, the thin clients don't mount the /home directory.

When you log into a thin client, you are actually logging into the server.

Your session is running ON the server, NOT on the thin client.  The 
client is merely providing your connection to the server.  It's an 
extension of the server.  Giving you a keyboard, mouse and display that 
are interacting with the server.  Dunno how many other ways I can say that.

So, when you log into the server, via a thin client, your home directory 
is right where it needs to be.

As for the problems you were having with booting the thin client, that's 
a whole different issue, having nothing to do with adding or removing 
/home from /etc/exports.

For us to help figure out why the client was stopping, we'd need more 
information, like details about the error you were getting.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org




Kevin Haugh wrote:
> I've got a couple of newbie questions that I'm hoping some of you folks
> can help me answer...
>
> Preface: 
> This is meant to be a quick test installation with a single server
> functioning as both the LTSP server AND the home folder file server.  I
> want to use older Dell as the thin client.
>
> 1)  Installed K12LTSP 4.4.1 on a server without issue.  Both NICs are
> configured correctly with eth1 getting an IP address from our
> campus-wide dhcp server and eth0 plugged into a hub;
>
> 2) Set the bios in the Dell client to boot first from the NIC and
> plugged it into the hub;
>
> 3) Client begins the PXE boot process and DOES receive an IP address
> from the LTSP server. I confirmed what I saw on the screen by using the
> "tail" command suggested in the docs.
>
> 4) Boot sequence stops indicating that there was trouble mounting the
> NFS share;
>
> 5) Went back to the web documentation and did the following...
> 	a) Added "/home   192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw)" (without the quotes of
> course) to /etc/export
>
> 	b) Made sure that /home is an empty directory on the LTSP server.
> 	c)Added the following line to /etc/fstab:
> server:/home/     /home     nfs     defaults,rsize=8192,wsize=8192   0 0
>
> 	d)Checked to make sure that there was entry in /etc/hosts indicating
> that 192.168.0.0 was called "server."
>
> 6) Rebooted the client and received the same error.
> 7) Pulled up the NFS service to make sure it was running.  And it seems
> to running correctly.
>
> Clearly I'm missing something or have done something incorrectly.  Do I
> need to configure anything differently because I want the LTSP server to
> also be the home folder file server?  Is there something more that I
> need to do with the client?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!!
>
> -Kevin
> Redlands High School
> Redlands, CA
>
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