Re: skype on diskless machine



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.

I thought about this, but the users are never logged into the diskless machine. (They do not even have a home directory there. The diskless machine has a special rc script that executes "X -query <address_of_appserver>" in an infinite loop, so users are not able to access anything on the diskless machine.)

You are right, it would be possible to do this with NFS, but first I must write a new service for the diskless clients. That service could be asked by the appserver to mount the ~/.Skype directory of the given user into the home directory of the user who happens to run the X server on the diskless machine, and then start skype.

This new service must be called from /etc/Xclients or ~/.xinitrc on the appserver. At that time the username and the address of the diskless machine will be known.
I imagine this /etc/Xclients:

<snip>
# Allow the diskless machine to display skype on our screen
xhost + <address_of_the_actual_diskless_machine_used>
# Ask the diskless machine to mount our .Skype directory and launch sykpe_bin
send_skype_start_request <address_of_the_actual_diskless_machine_used> <username>
# Start the wm
exec gnome-session
</snip>

Well, this is the theory. But I would not like to write a new service program if possible. But yes, this would work. Is this the only way?

Best,

Laszlo

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