From: Ted Roche Subject: CentraLUG Meeting, March 6, Steve Amsden, Linux Terminal Services Date: Friday, March 03, 2006 10:01:24 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! _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce