[K12OSN] usb/pen/thunbdrives& floppy access>this works!

[ddaniels at magic.fr]

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Barry R Cisna wrote:

>Hello List,,
>    Thought this cut & paste may be of some use to some souls trying to get
>both floppy & usb drives/pendrives to work. This setup does ,actually work.
>I have it working on four servers ,running K12LTSP v 4.2.0. You just need to
>add& adjust a few of the existing conf files ,on your k12ltsp servers for
>the clients to get access to both floppy & usb /pen drives.I could always
>get either floppy OR usb drives to work but not both ,till I found this
>setup!
>    This MAY keep staff happy and make K12LTSP a better "selling
>point"..with this scenario.
>Have a good one.
>
>    Barry---
>
>    3.5.1. Accessing local drives with Linux sessions
>We said earlier that using a Linux session on a workstation means receiving
>display from the LTSP server and all what you see runs on the LTSP server.
>Thus, accessing drives on the workstation returns to a remote access from
>the LTSP server to the local drives on the workstation
>
>3.5.1.1. Using floppyd
>Floppyd is used as a server to grant access to the floppy drive to clients
>running on a remote machine, just as an X server grants access to the
>display to remote clients. floppyd is always associated with an X server. It
>runs on the same machine as its X server, and listens on port 5703 and
>above.
>
>mtools is a collection of tools to allow Unix systems to manipulate MS-DOS
>files: read, write, and move around files on an MS-DOS filesystem (typically
>a floppy disk) without mounting/unmounting it. MtoolsFM is a little file
>manager that uses mtools and has a nice GUI.
>
>     Note
>      When you connect using a Linux session, you will see an icon on the
>desktop named "Floppy access" which launches MtoolsFM.
>
>
>  a.. To use floppyd on the workstation to grant access to the floppy drive
>
>    a.. Add the following line in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf at the end of
>the workstation's section
>
>[workstation_name]
>	...
>
>	# start floppyd to access the floppy drive (listen on port 5703)
>	RCFILE_01 = floppyd
>b.. Reboot the workstation
>
>  b.. To access the floppy drive from a Linux session
>
>    a.. Make sure that /etc/mtools.conf contains only the following lines
>
># Assign drive "a:" to floppy
>drive a: file="$DISPLAY" mtools_skip_check=1 remote
>b.. Create a file named /etc/mtoolsfm.conf and put the following lines in it
>
># MToolsFM config file. comments start with a hash sign.
>#
># This variable sets the allowed driveletters (all lowercase). Example:
># DRIVES="ab"
>DRIVES="a"
>#
># This variable sets the driveletter upon startup in the left window.
># An empty string or space is for the hardisk. Example:
># LEFTDRIVE="a"
>LEFTDRIVE=""
>#
># This variable sets the driveletter upon startup in the right window.
># An empty string or space is for the hardisk. Example:
># RIGHTDRIVE="a"
>RIGHTDRIVE=""
>c.. Use the mtools commands or the MtoolsFM GUI
>
>Many USB keys are preformatted with a MS-DOS filesytem. This means that it
>is possible to access the USB keys with floppyd. The procedure is outlined
>below (for more details, see USB Storage in the K12LTSP wiki)
>
>  a.. To use floppyd on the workstation to grant access to the USB key
>
>    a.. Create a directory called dev-files containing the device file sda1.
>This is because USB keys are generally assigned /dev/sda1 under a Linux
>system
>
># mkdir /opt/ltsp/i386/dev-files
># MAKEDEV -d /opt/ltsp/i386/dev-files -x sda1
>b.. Create the file /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.d/usbkey containing the following
>and make it executable
>
>#!/bin/bash
>#
># First, since floppyd runs as nobody, make /tmp world accessible.
>#
>chmod 777 /tmp
>#
>#copy the previously created device node
>#
>mkdir /tmp/dev
>cp -a /dev-files/sda1 /tmp/dev/sda1
>#
># and make it world accessible
>#
>chmod 666 /tmp/dev/sda1
>#
># Finally, start floppyd.
>#
># In order to have access to both floppy and USB keys, we tell floppyd
># to listen on port 5704.
>floppyd -l -s 5704 -d /tmp/dev/sda1
># chmod 755 /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.d/usbkey
>c.. Add the following line in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf at the end of the
>workstation's section
>
>[workstation_name]
>	...
>
>	# Load USB Mass Storage driver
>	MODULE_01 = usb-storage
>	#MODULE_02 = ehci-hcd
>
>	# start floppyd to access the USB key (listen on port 5704)
>	RCFILE_02 = usbkey
>d.. Reboot the workstation
>
>  b.. To access the floppy drive from a Linux session
>
>    a.. Modify /etc/mtools.conf so that is looks like this
>
># Assign drive "a:" to floppy
>drive a: file="$DISPLAY" mtools_skip_check=1 remote
>
># Assign drive "u:" to USB key
>drive u: file="$DISPLAY/5704" mtools_skip_check=1 remote
>b.. Modify /etc/mtoolsfm.conf so that is looks like this
>
># MToolsFM config file. comments start with a hash sign.
>#
># This variable sets the allowed driveletters (all lowercase). Example:
># DRIVES="ab"
>DRIVES="au"
>#
># This variable sets the driveletter upon startup in the left window.
># An empty string or space is for the hardisk. Example:
># LEFTDRIVE="a"
>LEFTDRIVE=""
>#
># This variable sets the driveletter upon startup in the right window.
># An empty string or space is for the hardisk. Example:
># RIGHTDRIVE="a"
>RIGHTDRIVE=""
>c.. Use the mtools commands or the MtoolsFM GUI
>
>       Tip
>        If you don't see any of the drives in MtoolsFM, then quit MtoolsFM,
>delete ${HOME}/.mtoolsfm and start MtoolsFM. You can also use "Configure
>MtoolsFM..." in the "Options" menu of MtoolsFM.
>
>
>       Warning
>          1.. You can plug/unplug a same USB key as many time as you want
>but if you plug another USB key it will not be accessed because the system
>assigned to it another device (likely /dev/sdb1).
>
>
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