Not necessarily stuck on the thin client idea I'm not sure my next assignment will have top of the line equipment immediately available. Please explain fat clients? Would this be a combo of XP and programs served by edbuntu? Or edbuntu on a workstation supplemented by server ran programs?
On 2012-05-20, at 8:49 PM, David Groos <djgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Jeremy, you sold on thin clients or are you considering localapps and > fatclients too? > David G > > On May 20, 2012 8:55 PM, "Jeremy Schubert" <jschub...@shaw.ca> wrote: > Thanks for the info Mike, I will create a virtual machine edubuntu server to > test this all out. But here are a few more initial questions fro you and > everyone else. And I'd appreciate any documentation links. > > 1. Specs for the server? Assume it was hosting 30 thin clients. > 2. I assume that when a client logs in from a machine, their profile (home?) > is loaded onto the server so they can move from server to server. What is > the best way of locking down settings per groups? (For example, what > programs they can access, what happens when they surf the net, how much > access they have to modifying desktops and backgrounds and if thos > modifications remain after logging out...) > 3. Can I run batch scripts (or equivelants) to map home folders and other > folders/directories for users to access? > > Thanks, > Jeremy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Biancaniello" <mikebi...@aol.com> > To: jschub...@shaw.ca, edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 5:55:27 PM > Subject: RE: Creating a school computer lab with edbuntu and ltsp > > You really don't need all of the partitions. You can certainly create them in > the install, though. > Personally, I prefer to keep the stuff for which I need RAID to be off on its > own server that just handles that and then use NFS to mount the shares (SMB > if I must share to windows). > > Edubuntu can install the LTSP during the initial install. > The standard install is to have 2 NICs on the server. One on the main > ethernet (access to internet or other stuff like printers, shares, etc) and > one to a private ethernet that hosts only the server and the ltsp clients. > > You can install the server with only a single NIC, but remember that it will > answer DHCP requests for anything on that network, so if you have another > dhcp server, you would have to edit the edubuntu dhcp config to only answer > for the MAC addresses of the client PCs and ignore all others. > > The PXE clients don't need any operating system (mine don't even have hard > drives), but you might need to edit the bios to ensure that the NIC is > configured to boot "w/pxe." > > > All of the clients will use the credentials on the edubuntu server to log in. > You can, however, configure the server to use existing domain creds. I can't > give you any info on setting that up, as I use kerberos in my house. > > I know that's kind of rambled, but hopefully it will help. I can always > answer more pointed questions or clarify if requested. > > > > > From : Jeremy Schubert <jschub...@shaw.ca> > To : edubuntu-users <edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> > Sent : Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 8:04 pm > Subject : Creating a school computer lab with edbuntu and ltsp > > > Hello there, > I'm used stetting up school computer labs in the following fashion: > 1. A group of client computers running windows xp or 7 > 2. A widows 2003 server with > - 2 NICs > - lots of ram > - a system partition > - a hidden partition for log files > - a data partition for users > - a partition for ISO files and programs that have to eunn from the server. > 3. Workstations joined ro the domain forcing users ro login with domain > credentials. > 4. Roaming or > mandatory profiles. > 5. Group polocies to enforce certain settings > > I'd like to try the same thing with edbuntu and ltsp. So , basically, can I > 1. Instal edbuntu on a box with lots of ram and partitions (raid5?) > 2. Then install LTSI > 3. Then star the work stations on PXE mode to connect to the server? > > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
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