Hello there.
I am currently looking at a solution for a school, and ideally, it would be using a small image distributed via PXE, wich contains x2go. This client would then connect to a cloud server. The wiki says that the TCE is not meant to be used for internet connections, yet it also states that the pxe server and x2go server should be kept separate. Would this work, or do i need another approach? My plan was to build the PXE image on a testing server, and put it on a Cisco ASA for distributing.
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On Do 16 Jun 2011 12:38:36 CEST Christoffer Krakou wrote:
Hello there.
I am currently looking at a solution for a school, and ideally, it
would be using a small image distributed via PXE, wich contains x2go. This client would then connect to a cloud server.
That sounds fully compliant with the capability of the x2gothinclient
package. However, PXE is a LAN boot protocol...
The wiki says that the TCE is not meant to be used for internet
connections, yet it also states that the pxe server and x2go server
should be kept separate.
Morty has criticized me for giving the urgent recommendation of
separating X2go Server and PXE server. I still favorize such a
solution but I will change that part in the wiki as it might repell
people from trying the X2go TCE. I simply haven't had the time for it,
yet.
My ideal setup for X2go TCE is: >=1 X2go Server, 1 PXE Server, n X2go
Thin Clients --- all of them in the same LAN.
Would this work, or do i need another approach? My plan was to build
the PXE image on a testing server, and put it on a Cisco ASA for
distributing.
I am not sure what you mean by this... If you explained this a bit
more in detail I might give some comments on your question. (but:
subscribe to the list first and use the subscription mail address for
posting afterwards...).
Greets, Mike
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Would this work, or do i need another approach? My plan was to
build the PXE image on a testing server, and put it on a Cisco ASA
for distributing.I am not sure what you mean by this... If you explained this a bit
more in detail I might give some comments on your question. (but:
subscribe to the list first and use the subscription mail address
for posting afterwards...). --- snip ---
Hello again Mike. Posting on this list was actually an accident due to
a misclick. I was going to post it on X2go-users instead.
Regarding the Cisco ASA, it's basically a firewall that also supports
the TFTP protocol, and that can function as a pxe server. This would
make enrolling the solution as easy as plugging a USB stick into the
firewall and configuring it.
The big question, i think, is wether or not an image could be built on
one X2go TCE server, and transferred to the ASA for delivery.
Hi Christoffer,
On So 19 Jun 2011 20:26:16 CEST wrote:
Regarding the Cisco ASA, it's basically a firewall that also
supports the TFTP protocol, and that can function as a pxe server.
This would make enrolling the solution as easy as plugging a USB
stick into the firewall and configuring it.The big question, i think, is wether or not an image could be built
on one X2go TCE server, and transferred to the ASA for delivery.
That should be possible, if the ASA also supports NFSv3 or NFSv4
exports for the thin client chroot environment.
The thin client boots like this:
o DHCP request by thin client, waiting for TFTP server and filename o the TFTP boot env is provided by syslinux, this basically loads the linux kernel (and initrd) o then the kernel will mount the root filesystem via NFSv3 (read-only) o now the system continues booting from the NFSv3 root filesystem
Greets, Mike
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