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This should save the changes and bring you back to the command line. If you make a mistake then issue :q! instead of :wq to abort your changes.

We need to edit the last two lines and add a few more. The settings you will use depend on your own network environment so you’ll obviously need to use your own values rather than just paste mine! Once done your file should look like something like this. The # character masks a line out so it does not get executed:

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TIP: If you’re going to be following this guide step by step using Putty then you can save yourself some typing by simply highlighting each command below, right-clicking on it and selecting Copy. Then toggle over to your Putty Session and right-click once more. The command you’ve just copied from here will be automatically pasted into your Putty Session.

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Once the host server has rebooted we should now be able to boot our thin client and be presented with the Ubuntu Thin Client logon screen as shown below:

Change the first three sets of numbers of the subnet to match your IP address. The IP address of the machine I’m using currently is 192.168.1.112 so I’d change the subnet value above from 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.1.0

For the range you need to make sure you set these to be outside the DHCP range dished out by your router. My router issues IP addresses from 192.168.1.64 to 192.168.1.253 so I had to firstly change my router to issue address in the range 192.168.1.64 – 192.168.1.199. I then set the range in the dhcpd.conf file to be 192.168.1.202 to 192.168.1.253 (my servers are using .200 & .201)

NOTE: If you’ve previously followed my VNC guide then you’ll be presented with the core gnome desktop rather than a Terminal Session. In which case select Log Out from the System menu before selecting the Preferences option on the Thin Client login screen to Shutdown the thin client.

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NOTE: If you’re jumping into this site here then it’s worth mentioning that this guide has been written for Lucid Lynx 10.04 but it may well work on earlier or later versions of Ubuntu.

There are two ways to do this. The first way is called IP Address Reservation. Address Reservation is where you tell your router to always give your server the same IP address. The second way is what’s commonly called a Static IP Address. This is where you change the settings on your server to tell the server not to obtain an IP address from your router but to instead always use the one you’ve hard coded. It is important that you make sure that this static IP address is outside the range issued by your router otherwise you might find you router giving this address to another device on your network. This would not be helpful!

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If you’re currently viewing this guide using a Windows machine connected to your router and your machine has been assigned an IP address via DHCP then issue the ipconfig /all command in a Command Prompt to see what settings you’re currently using. Alternatively you can obtain the required settings from your router interface.

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If you’ve been following my guides then you’ll already have a static IP address for your server. And if you’ve been following ALL my guides then you’ll also be running KVM which means you’ll be running your NIC as a network bridge so you can omit this step in either case.

Set the option broadcast-address so the first 3 sets of numbers are the same as the subnet setting plus the 255. So, 192.168.1.255

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Set the option domain-name-servers to be the same as the IP address of your router. In my case this is 192.168.1.254. Note, this would be the value of your “DHCP Server” in the output from your ipconfig /all command.

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Now we’re done configuring the basics let’s build the LTSP environment and client image by issuing the following command. This will take some time so be patient. Note, the command will build a 32bit image. If you want to build a 64bit image (which is obviously not recommended if your thin clients don’t support it) then omit the “–arch i386” from the command below:

This should save the changes and bring you back to the command line. If you make a mistake then issue :q! instead of :wq to abort your changes.

This is probably the trickiest part to get right since the settings you use will depend on your own environment. However I’ll explain what settings I changed (shown in red below) so you should be able to adjust this file to suit your network. First off, let’s open the dhcpd.conf file for editing by issuing the following command:

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We should now restart the DHCP server by issuing the following command. With any luck we’ll see an [OK] to say the DHCP server successfully started:

Obviously I can’t document here how to change the settings on your particular router to reserve an address for your server so I’ll just cover the latter, assigning a static IP address to your server.

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This will churn through for quite some time but eventually you should see info: LTSP client installation completed successfully displayed at the bottom of the screen. Now it’s time to reboot the host server:

Once you’ve typed in your username and password you should see a black box (which is actually a Terminal session) appear at the top left corner of the login screen. This is because we’ve not yet installed a GUI on our LTSP server but carrying out this step does at least show that our basic setup is working properly. Type exit in the Terminal session to quit back to the login screen. Then on the login screen click on Preferences in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen and choose Shutdown.

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We now need to configure our LTSP environment to run a GUI and configure stuff to suit our needs which is explained the How to configure LTSP guide.

So, if you’re running a headless server with a single NIC and your router performs the DHCP duties for your network then you might find this guide helpful.

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