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

[Steve Amsden]

Thanks, Ted, for the great lead in, and belaying  my other anxieties!
See you there.


 gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org on Friday, March 3, 2006 at 10:00 AM 
wrote:


>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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Steve Amsden
Network Administrator
Merrimack Valley School District
639-1502p

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