[21:12] <TheProf> Good day! We have a student in our school who needs to use a webcam to interact with other students at another location.  We are running Edubuntu 12.04 very successfully.  I have purchased a webcam that is fully compatible with Ubuntu.  My question is: can I use the webcam with the thin client as is or must be be converted to a thick-client or some other client?
[21:20] <stgraber> you can either use the machine as a fat client or run the software needing webcam access as a localapp (assuming you're talking about LTSP)
[21:21] <TheProf> stgraber: Hello. Yes sorry I wasn't clear.  I am running LTSP.  I've run LTSP from back in the k12ltsp days always as thin clients only.  I was weary of using it as a fat client or another configuration because it required me to modify the server to act as an Internet proxy.
[21:22] <TheProf> This caused teachers and others to just bypass everything by unplugging the thin clients and plugging their laptops right into the jack and getting online etc.
[21:22] <stgraber> yeah, that's indeed a problem and not something you can easily workaround if you need access to the webcam
[21:22] <TheProf> The student will be using Skype to communicate so perhaps the solution of running Skype as a local app would work?
[21:23] <stgraber> yeah, skype as a localapp worked last I tried
[21:23] <stgraber> though you'll indeed need your server to forward the network trafic, at least for that client (you can probably filter on the source IP to avoid other people using the ltsp network to get to the internet with their own machines)
[21:24] <TheProf> stgraber: Thank you. It's either that option or I set up a standalone machine with edubuntu (without LTSP) and then have the webcam on it and it's own login.