Re: LTSP installation

[Chris Tooley <ctooley amoa org>]

What I was actually curious about was the network syncing functionality
like what is described here:

http://members.1012surfnet.at/ralf.schlatterbeck/netsync.html

Can gnome-pilot answer these network requests?

Chris Tooley

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 10:39, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 10:07:45AM -0500, Chris Tooley wrote:
> > I need to get syncing working for Palm users in an LTSP environment. 
> > Does network syncing to gnome-pilot work and if so how would I go about
> > starting.  I'm trying to get started by just visualizing in my head what
> > parts I would need and where.
> 
> This is so unusual it almost rates as off-topic... except this is probably
> one of the best places to ask :-)
> 
> The LTSP _usualy_ runs all aplications on the server, with the "Linux
> Terminal" running as a simple X terminal. Things like gnome-pilot would
> probably assume that the conduit is a local serial or USB port. This means
> that gnome-pilot etc would work fine... provided you plugged your cradle
> into the server, because that is where they would be actualy running. The
> only problem in this scenario would be contention issues with heaps of
> clients all trying to run gnome-pilot on the same cradle.
> 
> If you want cradles at the "linux terminals", then you will either need to
> run gnome-pilot on the local terminal instead of on the server, or you might
> be able to do a remote-device-hack similar to the existing LTSP floppy
> access using the network block device stuff.
> 
> Running gnome-pilot on the local terminal instead of the server should be
> possible, as the LTSP already has some support for running things like the
> WM locally. It's been a while since I looked at it so I'm not sure of the
> status of this... I think the contributed LDAP stuff was a good step
> forwards for this. One thing to look out for is I'm not sure how happy the
> GNOME desktop would be if bit's of it were running on different
> machines...ie, running the gnome-pilot applet on the terminal, and the
> pannel on the server. I _think_ GNOME's ORB based design should make this
> OK, but I bet hardly anyone has tried it even if it is. You might find that
> once you start running gnome-pilot on the terminal, you end up running most
> of the gnome desktop on there as well.
> 
> Using a remote-device-hack could be easier, provided all the bits are
> already there. This involves creating some sort of virtual device for the
> gnome-pilot conduit on the server, and have this pipe data to/from the real
> serial or USB port on the terminal. If gnome-pilot is fairly device-agnostic
> and can happily communicate down any file-like object, you might be able to
> find or rig up some sort of client/server to pipe the data to/from the
> terminal. If gnome-pilot does some jiggery that is device specific, then you
> either need to hack gnome-pilot to be less fussy, or find/get a virtual
> device driver to do the data forwarding for you. I know things like this
> exist for forwarding ports to terminal servers, but I dunno if any of them
> are free and/or flexible enough to be used for this. Perhaps the Network
> Block Device could be used/hacked for the purpose?
> 
> 
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