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List:       ltsp-developer
Subject:    Re: [Ltsp-developer] USB drives, hotplugging
From:       Jim McQuillan <jam () McQuil ! com>
Date:       2005-03-16 2:24:20
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0503152123420.3038 () BigDog ! mcquil ! com
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:

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> > Does anyone know of a way where the usb key can be attached to and removed
> > from a running station and have everything show up correctly--much like
> > using any other kind of removeable media?  Anyone working on this?
>
> basic idea: run the automounter locally and use a locally running gui
> (MToolsFM is very leight weight) to show up device and home dir. that works
> almost like hotplug, no need to restart the terminal. drawback is, that you
> don't have drag 'n drop. (it's even possible to get xnc up and running with
> this feature, but that's much harder to achieve.)
> drawback, too, is that you have to do ugly copy jobs to get things running
> cause LTSP's libs require special old binaries to get along and you spoil
> somehow your LTSP dir.

LTSP-3 required old binaries, but LTSP-4.1 is built on fairly new stuff.

Jim McQuillan
jam@Ltsp.org



> i have it running at school since a year, no complaining any more that they
> can't use their usb thingies as wanted.
>
> wolfgang
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