Adding a client manually
This procedure explains how to add manually(i.e. without using the GUI) a client to your Plume installation. This procedure currently only applies to strictly identical clients.
- add or check that the hostname is already in /etc/hosts on the server
- start the station and write down his MAC Address (usually shown on the screen early in the boot process)
- add configuration with MAC Address in /etc/dhcpd.conf (see pre-existing entries)
- restart DHCP with /etc/init.d/dhcp restart
- copy /usr/share/plume/rootfs-i386/etc/plume/ws001 (where ws001 is the name of the client) as the new hostname in the same directory
- copy /usr/share/plume/rootfs-i386/etc/X11/XF86Configs/ws001 as the new hostname in the same directory
- reboot the station
- enjoy!
Note: When the station has already been booted previously using the same DHCP server, chances are that there are contradictory configurations stored between dynamically-assigned addresses and the statical ones you just added now.
You have to remove the previous, dynamic ones.
To do so:- stop the DHCP server: /etc/init.d/dhcp stop
- «empty» the files /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases and /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases (they are text files, so you can use your favorite editor: VI)
- start the DHCP server: /etc/init.d/dhcp start
- restart the clients which did not work
All that can be done while the other machines already started run, without any problem.