[K12OSN] USB and Floppy support not working

Wed Feb 28 13:03:46 UTC 2007

Calvin,

Look at the LTSP wiki, there's a page on 'DHCP' and in that page, 
there's information about how to send a hostname to the client.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org

Calvin Park wrote:
> /etc/hosts looks like it's supposed to,
>
> 192.168.3.x       wsXXX.ltsp      wsXXX
>
> All entries appear to be there. Thanks for the help on this.
>
> -Calvin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Petre Scheie [mailto:petre at maltzen.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 3:03 PM
> To: Support list for open source software in schools.
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] USB and Floppy support not working
>
> What is in your /etc/hosts file?  The hostname command should return 
> something like ws001 or similar, which should be found in /etc/hosts.
>
> Petre
>
> Calvin Park wrote:
>   
>> Petre,
>>
>> Thanks for the link. I've gone through the twelve steps and it looks like step 4 (Does your workstation know its name) is the issue. When I enter hostname I receive "(none)" as the response. I checked the various /etc/dhcpd.* files, and all seems to be as it should. :-/ 
>>
>> Anyone have any further ideas?
>>
>> -Calvin
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Petre Scheie [mailto:petre at maltzen.net] 
>> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:26 AM
>> To: Support list for open source software in schools.
>> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] USB and Floppy support not working
>>
>> Noting that my previous message was not much help since you're using LDAP, you might see 
>> the LDA troubleshooting checklist:
>> http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LTSP-42-LocalDev#Troubleshooting
>>
>> Petre
>>
>> Petre Scheie wrote:
>>     
>>> I had a similar experience recently: Months ago, Local Device Access 
>>> (LDA) was working fine for me.  A few months elapsed in which LDA was 
>>> not used by anyone.  Then I went to use it to access some CDROMs and got 
>>> the same behavior you describe: the icons appear, but when clicked on, 
>>> they're empty.  I 'fixed' the problem by putting all the user IDs into 
>>> the fuse group.  This is a small installation, so it's not a problem.  
>>> Eric made some changes to the LDA code such that putting users into the 
>>> fuse group isn't necessary (at the expense of a slightly lower security 
>>> threshold).  I keep this box updated, so my guess is that something 
>>> along the way broke that modification.  I didn't have time to delve into 
>>> what actually broke.  Try putting a user into the fuse group and see if 
>>> it makes a difference.
>>>
>>> Petre
>>>
>>> Calvin Park wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Sorry, this is actually the second time I sent this. I realized before 
>>>> that I sent it from an address that wasn't a member of the list, so 
>>>> it's probably waiting for moderation. So I thought I'd go ahead and 
>>>> send this on through.
>>>> -------
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>  
>>>> Weâ€™ve been having a bit of a problem with out K12LTSP setup here. 
>>>> Back in late January local device support justâ€¦stopped working. I 
>>>> vaguely remember that this was after a bunch of updates, but Iâ€™m not 
>>>> 100% sure. I know, thatâ€™s not really helpful. Anyway, when you 
>>>> insert a USB stick the folder icon appears on the userâ€™s desktop but 
>>>> no files are listed when the user double clicks the folder. In going 
>>>> through some of the archives I was thinking this had to do with 
>>>> ltspfs-insecure. Iâ€™ve started/restarted it multiple times with no 
>>>> luck. I also read a bit about the fuse group. I was prepared to add 
>>>> all users to that group, but we authenticate against an ADS and Iâ€™m 
>>>> not really clear on how to map windows groups to unix groups. I 
>>>> thought I had figured it out after diving into the samba documentation 
>>>> but to no avail. So, my questionâ€¦
>>>>  
>>>> Should I try to reinstall the ltspfs package, could it be possible 
>>>> that ltspfs-insecure is broken on our system?
>>>> OR
>>>> Should I just bit the bullet and try to figure out how to map a 
>>>> windows group to the unix group fuse in order to get things working 
>>>> again (and if so, could someone point me in the right direction)?
>>>> OR
>>>> Am I headed in the opposite direction of what I should be looking 
>>>> into, in other words â€“ does it have nothing to do with permissions 
>>>> and whatnot and some small setting in a conf file somewhere just needs 
>>>> changed?
>>>>  
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>> -Calvin
>>>>
>>>>
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