gvsurenderreddy/ltsp-1

Linux Terminal Server Project

This is install instructions for the RPM version of the ltsp package. Please run all commands as root or using sudo command

On your LTSP server you must have epel-release repo's setup from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Then you can install the LTSP repo using this command: For EL6: rpm --import http://ltsprepo.s3.amazonaws.com/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY-ltsp rpm -Uvh http://ltsprepo.s3.amazonaws.com/rpm/el6/x86_64/ltsp-release-5-9.el6.noarch.rpm

For Fedora 18: rpm --import http://ltsprepo.s3.amazonaws.com/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY-ltsp rpm -Uvh http://ltsprepo.s3.amazonaws.com/rpm/fc18/x86_64/ltsp-release-5-9.fc18.noarch.rpm

To install the server simply run: yum install ltsp-server

FEDORA 18+ NOTE: Fedora now uses systemctl instead of init.d, so to control these services you would use: systemctl stop SERVICENAME ; systemctl disable SERVICENAME

NOTE: Steps 1-5 here can be bypassed by editing /etc/ltsp/ltsp-server.conf changing the LTSP_DEV and LTSP_DEFAULTIP then running: ltsp-server-initialize

There are a few things you must do to prepare for the client to boot

1. Disable selinux by editing /etc/sysconfig/selinux and change SELINUX=permissive
2. Temporarily disable iptables by running: /etc/init.d/iptables stop ; /sbin/chkconfig iptables off NOTE: you may choose to reconfigure iptables later to add services such as nfs, tftp, dhcpd, named and others that we use

For configurations with 2 NIC's with setups such as eth0 - internet & eth1 - internal network (preferred method)

3. Disable NetworkManager /sbin/chkconfig NetworkManager off /sbin/chkconfig network on /sbin/service NetworkManager stop && /sbin/service network restart Make sure the network configuration files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* have "NM_CONTROLLED=no" AND has "ONBOOT=yes".
4. Configure eth1 to an internal IP for the terminals, the default we recommend is 192.168.67.1
5. Reboot or restart services ltsp-dhcpd xinetd nfs

For configurations with 1 NIC and no other dhcpd server on the network

3. Edit /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf and change that to your network settings, then restart dhcpd
4. Change LTSP_DEV in /etc/ltsp/ltsp-server.conf to be your main NIC

BUILDING THE CLIENT

1. Look at /etc/ltsp/ltsp-server.conf
2. ltsp-build-client --extra-help This will give you the options you can pass to the program that builds the chroot for the client
3. If you'd like to go with the recommended defaults simply run: ltsp-build-client
4. To setup services just run: ltsp-server-initialize