CentraLUG Meeting, March 6, Steve Amsden, Linux Terminal Services

Ted Roche tedroche at tedroche.com
Fri Mar 3 10:01:02 EST 2006


Presentation March 6, 2006
Monday, 7pm at NHTI

The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central New Hampshire  
chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group, occurs on the  
first Monday of each month on the New Hampshire Institute Campus  
starting at 7 PM. This month, we'll be meeting in Room 146 of the  
Library/Learning Center/Bookstore, http://www.nhti.net/nhtimap.pdf ,  
marked as "I" on that map. Directions and maps are available on the  
NHTI site at http://www.nhti.edu. Open to the public. Free admission.  
Tell your friends.

This month's meeting will feature Steve Amsden, Network Administrator  
for the Merrimack Valley School District, showing off LTSP, http:// 
www.ltsp.org/, the Linux Terminal Server Project. From Steve:

"LTSP is an add-on package for Linux that allows you to connect lots  
of low-powered thin client terminals to a Linux server. Applications  
typically run on the server, and accept input and display their  
output on the thin client display. The power and flexibility of this  
platform have far reaching implications, particularly for K12 school  
districts who have been educated and brave enough to seek other  
solutions than the cost of systems and applications software.  But  
more specifically, being locked into a treadmill of constant  
upgrades, licensing problems, and unsupportable client-server nework  
environments that have been the Achille's heel of technology  
education.  Merrimack Valley School District has five LTSP server  
environments in various states of implementation, and
uses e-Smith Linux server for gateway, DHCP, content filtering,  
firewall, and Windows 2000 emulation using SAMBA.  Exeter School  
District, as well as Salem, are too using combinations of e-Smith and  
LTSP.  Though LTSP has made in-roads into the schools, it will be  
some time before the full impact is realized, and others convinced  
that there is a better way than the Microsoft Way."

1) Opening Remarks/Overview of Presentation
2) Begin LTSP Demo Server Installation
3) Login to LTSP Terminals
4) Overview of User Desktop Options and Applications
5) Eval the Role of dhcpd.conf & lts.conf in Configuring LTSP
6) Test Terminal Access to Demo Server
7) Review LTSP-to-Windows Terminal Server Connectivity
8) Closing Remarks, Q & A, Handouts (CD copies of LTSP 4.2 and e- 
Smith 6.01-1 will be available)

Should be an awesome presentation! Tell your friends! Tell your schools!

(Steve had indicated if this presentation goes well, he'd be open to  
consider a NH-wide Quarterly meeting or similar venue.)

More details at about the group are available at http:// 
www.centralug.org and http://www.gnhlug.org.

Hope to see you there!




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