Re: no home-directory on diskless workstations
"Dr. Georg Damm" <Georg.Damm@web.de> wrote:
>Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012, 23:49:21 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen:
>> [Georg Damm]
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > i installed a tjener+thinclientserver+workstation profile on a
>machine,
>> > changed the ip adress range to 10.0.0.0/16 and followed the network
>> > clients howto:
>> >
>> > "If clients on the 192.168.x.x interface of a thin client server
>should
>> > boot as diskless workstations instead of thin clients, edit
>> > /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default
>> > and add a '3' (no quotes) to the end of the line. There is no need
>to
>> > add
>> > these workstations in GOsa², saving you some work."
>> >
>> > Everything works well (dhcp, tftp, DNS, user auth). Unfortunately
>the
>> > home directories /skole/tjener/home0/... are not mounted. How can I
>> > fix/debug this?
>> The howto is no longer up-to-date. To get access to mount the home
>> directory, the clients should be added to GOsa² and the
>> workstation-hosts netgroup. What is the URL to this howto? We
>should
>> fix it.
>
>The URL is
>http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/HowTo/NetworkClients#Changing_the_PXE_menu_on_an_LTSP_server
>
>> See for example
>> <URL:
>>
>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Setting_up_a_new_school_with_Debian_
>> Edu_Squeeze.html > for an idea how to add machines efficiently if you
>have
>> many machines.
>
>Ok, i'll try Mikes and your solution. Thanks for your responses an the
>good
>work.
>
>Georg
sitesummary2ldap -a doesnt add anything. After adding the machine in gosa /skole is mounted and contains a directory tjener, but nothing else. I think /skole/tjener/home0 has to be mounted too. How does the diskless ws mount the nfs shares? /etc/fstab is almost empty.
Regards
Georg
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