Re: skype on diskless machine

Hi Laszlo,

On Thursday 30 November 2006 13:15, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
Hello,

I have an appserver (6.1-RELEASE-p10) and many diskless clients
connected to it. I'm using the diskless clients as X terminals (gdm is
running on the appserver). Any user is able to use any terminal, because
they run all applications on the appserver. Here is the basic problem:
users need to use skype. I have two options:

#1 Run skype on the diskless machine. Then it can handle audio I/O
correctly, but the users cannot save their login names and passwords.
(This option is also good because the diskless machine can "kldload
linux" while the appserver does not need to, e.g. the appserver will be
able to run application in native mode only).
#2 Run skype on the appserver. Then users can save their skype login
information but they are not able to make calls. Well, I could forward
the audio output to the client using a sound daemon (e.g. "esd
-promiscuous -tcp -pubic -port 1500" on the diskless and "esddsp -v -s
diskless101:1500 skype_bin") but I could not find out how to forward
digital input. I see no way to forward digital input through a sound
daemon, so using a microphone would be impossible.

The question is, how can I solve this problem? Should I use #1 and tell
my users that they must not save their skype login names and passwords?
Or should I use #2 in combination with a special sound daemon that is
able to forward digital input as well? (How?)

Why not just run skype on the diskless PC and have the user's home directory
mountend over NFS?
That way you can have both things you want.

--
Daan
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