LTSP, mac address

Hi,

I have a ltsp question;

I'm trying to build a situation where every client in the network
gets onother htmlpage on his screen at startup. I need a way to know
wich machine is logging into the network so I know wich html page to
send. I need to know what the macaddress of the nic is thats build in
the clientmachine.


Regards Sjaak

Sjaak schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I have a ltsp question;
>
> I'm trying to build a situation where every client in the network
> gets onother htmlpage on his screen at startup. I need a way to know
> wich machine is logging into the network so I know wich html page to
> send. I need to know what the macaddress of the nic is thats build in
> the clientmachine.
>
>
> Regards Sjaak

how is the html beeing sent? if there's just a browser opening, you
could check the IP via PHP and send a IP-specific page to the client as
far as everybody always gets the same IP.

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In comp.os.linux.networking Bernhard Kastner <(E-Mail Removed)> suggested:
> Sjaak schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a ltsp question;
>>
>> I'm trying to build a situation where every client in the network
>> gets onother htmlpage on his screen at startup. I need a way to know
[..]

> how is the html beeing sent? if there's just a browser opening, you
> could check the IP via PHP and send a IP-specific page to the client as
> far as everybody always gets the same IP.

The only problem, unless you run the browser as local app, you'll
only see the IP of the LTSP server, that's were all apps run.

IIRC $DISPLAY should be set during login already, if you map MAC
to IP via dhcpd.conf, you know the thin client, thus you could do
what you like, like copying some web pages.

First thing to try, checking the contrib area (www.ltsp.org)
perhaps someone has already done it, or alike which could be
easily modified/reused.

Good luck

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