There is plenty of information on the internet including here, but I could not find a specific discussion on it. Any comment is appreciated. Sorry if it is a very rookie question.
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 and the LTSP server. I also use Virtual Box to emulate a diskless thin/fat client to test it.
For now, I understand that the LTSP creates chroot environment at /opt/ltsp/i386/ (or amd64) of the server(host). Until now, I found that:
For thin client (common build option, no desktop installed), after my logging into LDM using server username and password, the root folder will be the actual root of the server.
However, if press alt+ctrl+F1 into terminal with admin accound logged in, the root folder is the chroot, which is reasonable.
For fat client (FAT_CLIENT_DESKTOPS="ubuntu-desktop" in /etc/ltsp/ltsp-build-client.conf) as described in this tutorial , the root folder will be the chroot environment (/opt/ltsp/i386/ as mentioned above)
Of course, the interface is different, where thin client will be the gnome-core version as I installed on my ubuntu server, and fat client uses unity, although I guess it is the default settings.
So, my question is how fat client got into graphic interface with chroot environment? but thin version is straight server root? Or, can I change the root such as, make the fat client visit actual server root and chroot for thin client?
I asking because I saw some tutorial saying you can install desktop by apt-get in a thin client, so that should be a conversion to fat client? BUT I can not see how this would change the root folder mounting.
Thanks a lot!
