[K12OSN] K12LTSP 5 EL: no Web access for non-terminal clients

[Rob Owens]

Sorry about that!  On my system it's /etc/dhcpd.conf.  I'm not sure if I
changed it to that, or if it's a result of me installing this system
when it was still in beta.

-Rob

Peter Scheie wrote:
> Yes, the dhcpd config file you want to make any modifications to is
> dhcpd-k12ltsp.conf, not /etc/dhcpd.conf.  Likewise, I recall a few years
> ago someone on the list observing that if one is going to use Webmin,
> one should only use Webmin, as switching back and forth between that and
> manually editing files caused problems.
> 
> Peter
> 
> David D. Nelson wrote:
>> Sorry Rob. The first reply only went to you not the list. Here is
>> another try.
>>
>> Ok, I checked /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward and it has a 1 in it. I
>> looked at /etc/dhcpd.conf and all it has in it is:
>>
>> #
>> # DHCP Server Configuration file.
>> #   see /usr/share/doc/dhcp*/dhcpd.conf.sample #
>>
>> When I added the option routers x.x.x.x line in it and I did a service
>> dhcpd restart, dhcpd failed to start. I reverted to the original
>> dhcpd.conf file and tried again and still got a failure on start. I
>> see that there is a dhcpd-k12ltsp.conf file. Is this the one that is
>> actually used? It seems like I remember older versions of K12LTSP had
>> a line in dhcpd.conf pointing to dhcpd-k12ltsp.conf. Is this what is
>> supposed to happen?
>>
>> Maybe my looking around with Webmin messed things up. I didn't see any
>> error messages in /var/log/messages so I'm at a loss here. I'd rather
>> not have to start over again.
>>
>>
>> David D. Nelson
>> nelsda at yahoo.com
>>
>> http://www.evalbum.com/1328
>>
>>
>> --- On Fri, 9/19/08, Rob Owens <rob.owens at biochemfluidics.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Rob Owens <rob.owens at biochemfluidics.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] K12LTSP 5 EL: no Web access for non-terminal
>>> clients
>>> To: nelsda at yahoo.com, "Support list for open source software in
>>> schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
>>> Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 5:00 AM
>>> Your DHCP server (which I assume is your K12LTSP server)
>>> needs to tell
>>> clients where the gateway is.  dhcpd.conf should have a
>>> line like:
>>>
>>> option routers 10.112.0.123;  (obviously, don't use my
>>> example address)
>>>
>>> Your thin clients have web access because they're
>>> nat'ing to the K12LTSP
>>> server, and the K12LTSP server apparently knows where its
>>> gateway
>>> (router) is.  The other clients, though, need to be told
>>> where their
>>> gateway (router) is.
>>>
>>> -Rob
>>>
>>> David D. Nelson wrote:
>>>> My server died and I had to do a new install so I did
>>> a standard install K12LTSP 5 EL. After applying updates
>>> terminals would boot and work fine but I can't seem to
>>> get any access from other workstations on the network. I
>>> have eth0 on the local net and eth1 to the internet. I tried
>>> the following:
>>>>     chkconfig nat on
>>>>     service nat restart
>>>>
>>>>     chkconfig iptables-k12ltsp on
>>>>     service iptables-k12ltsp restart
>>>>
>>>>     chkconfig transparent-proxying on
>>>>     service transparent-proxying restart
>>>>
>>>> but I still don't have internet access from the
>>> workstations. I'm able to ping by domain name so I
>>> assume that DNS is set up correctly but I get an invalid
>>> request error from squid or a time out if squid isn't
>>> running.
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>>
>>>> David D. Nelson
>>>> nelsda at yahoo.com
>>>>
>>>> http://www.evalbum.com/1328
>>>>
>>>>
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