Thinstation. I have the old Error, no valid session type!

[mirojr]

Hello

 

I have the old Error, no valid session type!

 

I am just about giving up with this for now, but i wondered if there was a live CD that booted to give me options for RDP etc

 

I had an image but it just booted into ICEWM with nothin much but an option to burn to HD

 

Anyone know a direct link to a Thinstation liveCD that will give me a session with RDP etc

 

Thanks

[CyberNerd]

you need to define a session type in the thinstation.conf.network

(or thinstation.conf.buildtime or thinstation.conf.user-) depending how you are running it.

[mirojr]

Well I saw the part about:

# IMPORTANT: Make sure you minimum have a SESSION_0. Otherwise you will get an error

# on boot. You may have additional sessions: SESSION_1, SESSION_2 ...

SESSION_0 is on ctrl-alt-F3

 

So i uncommented/enabled this as above.

 

I am just wondering where this file should reside. Currently I have it in the Thinstation folder under /boot/x86/

[CyberNerd]

I am just wondering where this file should reside. Currently I have it in the Thinstation folder under /boot/x86/

 

It depends how your running it.

We boot from a PXE server so the file lives in the ftfp root directory.

I've not run from hard disk or CD so I'm not soo sure where it looks.

[CyberNerd]

my Session0 (for citrix) is:

 

ICA_USE_SERVER_KEYBOARD=Off

ICA_BROWSER_PROTOCOL=HTTPonTCP

ICA_SERVER=172.16.90.1

ICA_ENCRYPTION=Basic

ICA_COMPRESS=On

ICA_AUDIO=On

ICA_SMARTCARD=Off

ICA_AUDIO_QUALITY=high

ICA_PRINTER=Off

ICA_SEAMLESS_WINDOW=Off

ICA_WFCLIENT_CDMALLOWED=On

ICA_WFCLIENT_DRIVEPATHU=/mnt/usbdevice

ICA_WFCLIENT_DRIVEENABLEDU=Yes

ICA_WFCLIENT_DRIVEREADACCESSU=0

ICA_WFCLIENT_DRIVEWRITEACCESSU=0

 

 

 

SESSION_0_TYPE=ica

SESSION_0_ICA_APPLICATION_SET="Desktop"

SESSION_0_TITLE=Citrix

[mirojr]

Running from WDS server, so folders structure:

 

\\ourserver\REMINST\Boot\x86\Thinstation

 

Should it be a .network file in this case?

[CyberNerd]

yes thinstation.conf.network

It resides in the same directory as the pxelinux.0 etc.

[mirojr]

THanks.

 

Must still be missing something.

 

I changed the session section like so:

# IMPORTANT: Make sure you minimum have a SESSION_0. Otherwise you will get an error

# on boot. You may have additional sessions: SESSION_1, SESSION_2 ...

SESSION_0 is on ctrl-alt-F3

#SESSION_1 is on ctrl-alt-F4

# ... etc.

 

 

SESSION_0_TYPE=icewm

 

 

# The -a option here specifies the color depth

# Note certain servers support certain color depths, wrong settings with this

# May cause your connection to fail.

SESSION_0_TITLE="Big Bad Server Donald"

SESSION_0_TYPE=rdesktop

SESSION_0_SCREEN=1

SESSION_0_SCREEN_POSITION=2

SESSION_0_RDESKTOP_SERVER=x.x.x.x

SESSION_0_RDESKTOP_OPTIONS="-u user -p password -a 16"

SESSION_0_AUTOSTART=Off

[CyberNerd]

SESSION_0_TYPE=icewm

 

 

# The -a option here specifies the color depth

# Note certain servers support certain color depths, wrong settings with this

# May cause your connection to fail.

SESSION_0_TITLE="Big Bad Server Donald"

SESSION_0_TYPE=rdesktop

 

Its one or the other, you can't have icewm and rdesktop as Session0. Make Icewm session1

[mirojr]

Thanks, noticed that.

 

Changed it to:

# Individual Session Settings, override defaults

#

# IMPORTANT: Make sure you minimum have a SESSION_0. Otherwise you will get an error

# on boot. You may have additional sessions: SESSION_1, SESSION_2 ...

# SESSION_0 is on ctrl-alt-F3

#SESSION_1 is on ctrl-alt-F4

# ... etc.

 

 

#SESSION_0_TYPE=icewm

 

 

# The -a option here specifies the color depth

# Note certain servers support certain color depths, wrong settings with this

# May cause your connection to fail.

SESSION_0_TITLE="Big Bad Server Donald"

SESSION_0_TYPE=rdesktop

SESSION_0_SCREEN=1

SESSION_0_SCREEN_POSITION=2

SESSION_0_RDESKTOP_SERVER=x.x.x.x

SESSION_0_RDESKTOP_OPTIONS="-u user -p password -a 16"

SESSION_0_AUTOSTART=Off

 

 

with:

 

 

NET_USE_DHCP=On

#NET_IP_ADDRESS=192.168.0.1

#NET_MASK=255.255.255.0

#NET_GATEWAY=192.168.0.254

#NET_DHCP_DELAY=30

NET_FILE_ENABLED=On

NET_FILE_METHOD=tftp

#NET_FILE_USER=needed_for_scp_only

#NET_FILE_ALTERNATE=192.168.0.4

#NET_DNS1=192.168.0.2

#NET_DNS2=192.168.0.3

#NET_DNS_SEARCH=cartoons.org.nz

 

Same issue, but the boot aborted message now has 'menu - ' appended on it

[mirojr]

Am still not managing to get past this error 'No valid session type'