[FreeNX-kNX] Re: floppy, cdrom access for roaming users

[Fabian Franz]

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Am Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2005 10:09 schrieb Chris Fanning:
> Happy to see you're back.
>
> Thanks for the tip, comfirming my need to learn more bash.

Hi Chris,

first of all: please reply to messages on-list. (I also sometimes just use the 
web-interface to search for new messages)

>
> I've edited nxnode adding  ...
> export NXUSERIP=$userip

I think this is a good idea. I'll add an configurable entry, so that 
administrators can disable it, if they don't want their users to know their 
own IP.	

> ..to node_startsession()

I think we still have a problem with reconnection, as I'm taking the stored IP 
from the stored sessionfile, which might be wrong. 

Can you confirm this bug?

I think I should rather update the IP in it ...

I'll add a fix to CVS.

>
> the file icon_setup is now like this.
> #! /bin/bash
>
> desktop_icon=$HOME/Desktop/floppy.desktop
> sed "s/nxclient/$NXUSERIP/g"
> /usr/share/terminal/floppy.desktop.template > $desktop_icon

Btw. there is a great syntax in the desktop files, which at least KDE does 
support (I don't know about Gnome):

Exec[$e]=smb://$(echo $NXUSERIP)/fd

This would allow to use the same login from several machines.

However this would have problems with reconnection:

Working could be:

in nxnode:

export NXSESSIONID=$sessionid

in your startup-script:

echo "$NXUSERIP" > /home/.nx/C-$NXSESSIONID/userip

Exec[$e]=smb://$(cat /home/.nx/C-$NXSESSIONID/userip)/fd

As the sessionid does not change over several sessions this would allow the 
desktop file to be always correct - once that reconnection ip-bug (see above) 
is fixed.

>
> I thought that better not to call it from within nxnode because not
> all sessions want this. eg. Running a nxclient from windows.

Yeah, thats a good idea.

cu

Fabian
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