Re: PXES + Terminal Services 2003

El mié, 31-08-2005 a las 10:10 -0300, Diego Torres Milano escribió:
> Firstly, kindest regards to you, Andres, and all of the friends at
> igalia.

Hi Diego, best regards from Igalia too :-) ! Your work is very nice and
I've just been customizing it and understanding how it works for the
last two weeks.

> You should have no problems using ACPI in PXES with 2.6 kernel. And if
> you test your hardware with ACPI enabled in 2.4 and it works you could
> obtain the same results.

OK

> But I have one question. Why do you want that just after log out the
> computer turns off ? Is this not an unexpected (and perhaps annoying)
> behavior ?

No, this wasn't what I need. This was what Marcelo needed.

I wanted an user friendlier way to shutdown the thin client from the
"Continue..." dialog after a session close. I've modified this message
to a 3 buttons dialog with "Continue" "Reboot" "Shutdown" options.

You know, I don't mean to press the poweroff button in a RAM working PC
but it's annoying for window users so I was asked to change this
behaviour.

Also, I've made customizations to "smb.conf" in order to change the
netbios domain and name per thin client, customize the samba shared
printer name and investigate about the security options in SAMBA. I've
just chosen to put "security = share" instead of "security = user"
because it's easier to a PXES deployment, isn't it?

As well, I'm using a 2.4.x kernel because I wanted to try Linux Progress
Patch with PXES and I don't know this is possible in 2.6.x series.
Actually, I've not much time to try this, so it would be waiting some
weeks, or even months :-(.

I've to say that I've experienced some problems in the NICs and mouses
autodetect mechanism (so far I've not tried many video and sound cards)
so I think this should be put in common with LTSP, KNOPPIX and similar
projects in order to not join efforts.

Finally, I've to ask you for help (sorry :-D). I've noticed some
flickering problems using rdesktop against W2000 running Navision. I
think it's a Navision problem but it only happens with rdesktop nor with
the Win98 terminal client. The problem happens when you browse a data
table, whenever you change the row or cell, all the window seems to be
redrawed showing an annoying flickering effect. I'm going to try
rdesktop with "force bitmap" but I don't know this is going to solve the
problem or make more network traffic and server loading side effects.

I'll be happy having any kind of help, and please, tell me if I can help
you in some way, I'll do my best whenever I have some time.

Greetings.
-- 
Andrés Gómez García
Computer Science Engineer
Telf:  +34 981 91 39 91
Fax:   +34 981 91 39 49
mailto:[email protected]
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IGALIA, S.L. http://www.igalia.com

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