[K12OSN] local devices - PCMCIA

[Peter Scheie]

Read http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LTSP-42-LocalDev
and follow the link to the doc on ltspfs.

Why do your users want to use the local drives for storage?  The whole 
point of thin clients is that everything is stored on the server so the 
admin (you) only have to worry about one machine, and the users can 
login on any client and have their files be present.  The Windows/Mac 
"everyone has a full computer system" paradigm is a terrible 
architecture in this respect, wasteful, and expensive.  What is it the 
users think using the local disk will do for them?

Peter

Rob Owens wrote:
> Could someone point me to documentation on how the local devices work in
> LTSP 4.2?  I really need to try getting this local PCMCIA reader work.  
> 
> And has anybody used local hard drives for storage?  I think it's kinda
> pointless, but some of my users are asking me if it can be done.
> 
> -Rob
> 
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:28:59PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
>> I have a potential thin client machine (a P3 desktop) that has a PCMCIA
>> card reader in it.  Is it possible for me to get this working as a local
>> device?  It's a Texas Inst. PCI-1225 Cardbus Controller. 
>>
>> I've seen writeups where people got this working ok under Linux, but I
>> didn't find anything related to LTSP or thin clients.  Do I need to
>> specify a module to load?  Do I need to add something special to the
>> local devices system?
>>
>> I'm using K12LTSP 5.0.0EL (LTSP 4.2)
>>
>> -Rob
>>
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