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LTSP5 Local Devices

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Introduction

You've inserted a disk or memory stick in your thin client, and nothing happened, what next?


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Check lts.conf

Each user you wish to be able to access their local devices needs LOCALDEV = True in lts.conf, alternatively you may add to the '[default]' section to make this global.

[192.168.1.198]
# Joe Bloggs Desktop
    LOCALDEV             = True


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Check user is in fuse group

# groups userid
userid satff users audio fuse

If they are not in the fuse group then:

# adduser userid fuse


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Check lts.conf settings are reaching client

A simple typo can mean that your carefully crafted lts.conf file is not reaching its target audience. To test, boot up the thin client and ctrl+alt+f1 to get to the console, login as root and type the following:

See LTSP Client Root Password if you are unable to log into the client.

# getltscfg -a

This will give you a list of all the settings that apply to this particular client, including any default settings. You need to check that you can see the above LOCALDEV="True" is visible.


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Check logs on client

# tail -f /var/log/syslog

Then try inserting the device, and you should see the detection - look for errors that might indicate what has gone wrong.


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Check UDEV can see drive

Still on the client:

# udevadm info -q all -n sr0
P: /block/sr0
N: sr0
S: block/11:0
S: scd0
S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:0:0
S: cdrom
S: cdrw
S: dvd
S: dvdrw
E: ID_CDROM=1
E: ID_CDROM_CD_R=1
E: ID_CDROM_CD_RW=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_R=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_RW=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_RAM=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_R=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_RW=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_R_DL=1
E: ID_CDROM_MRW=1
E: ID_CDROM_MRW_W=1
E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:0:0


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Check ltspfs is installed on the server

# dpkg -l ltspfs | grep ^ii
ii  ltspfs                                       0.6-1~bpo50+1                        Fuse based remote filesystem for LTSP thin clients


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Check fuse is running

# lsmod | grep fuse
fuse                   47124  3 

If fuse is not running, then:

# echo fuse >> /etc/modules
# modprobe fuse
# adduser USER fuse


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KDE Desktop Icons


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References

For some additional troubleshooting, try: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebugLocalDev


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