[Ltsp] Re: [brlug-general] k12 ltsp School installation

[Brad Bendily]

> David,
> 
> Can you provide a few more details about the TFTP
> problem? Specifically, do you mean that the TFTP
> server is not answering, or that TFTP does not get
> started on the client? Also, could you provide some
> details about the client boxes? How do they know where
> the TFTP server is?

The TFTP server usually resides on the same box as the
LTSP. DHCP and the NFS exports are also on the LTSP
server. You tell the client where the TFTP and NFS
home dir is via DHCP from the server. The client
does not have any configuration on it specifically
other than a floppy disk that loads the network
drivers. Once the client boots it gets a DHCP address from
the dhcp server and the dhcp config should tell the
client a few specifics. David can you post a copy
of your dhcpd.conf file? or at least a small
section regarding a specific client.

David, do you have this same problem on all clients?

To check that tftp is running, from the server open
a terminal window and type "lsof -ni" (with no quotes).

You should see a line that looks like this:
xinetd     1527    root    5u  IPv4   3107       UDP *:tftp

(Notice TFTP at the end.)

Also, in my dhcpd.conf file here is what one of my
client configs look like. 

host pc1250.kiosk{
            hardware ethernet 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx;
            fixed-address 147.174.xxx.xxx;
            allow bootp;
            server-name "xxx.xxx.selu.edu";
            next-server 147.174.xxx.xxx;
            filename "lts/vmlinuz-2.4.26-ltsp-1";
            option root-path "147.174.xxx.xxx:/opt/ltsp/i386";
            option domain-name-servers 147.174.xxx.xxx, 147.174.xxx.xxx;
            option host-name "pc1250";
            }

You may or may not need all of that info. I'm not using a 
"traditional" LTSP setup. Traditionally people run DHCP
on their LTSP servers, but I run DHCP on another server
and had to configure my client setup for that case.

Would it be possible for me to take a look at the server?
Either via the internet or in person, I wouldn't mind.
I'm actually going to a dr. appointment Thursday morning
on Bluebonnett in BR. How about then?

> Really want this project to succeed!
> John

Agreed!

Brad B