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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