Here's an outline of how I finally got AD working on my set up: http://groosd.blogspot.com/2011/09/making-lucid-authenticate-via-district.htmlIt's hard to read some of the font since I 'upgraded' to this newer style blogspot layout.
Good luck, David On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Jeremy Schubert <jschub...@shaw.ca> wrote: > Thank you all for your advice. > > I'm thinking in terms of running this as a computer lab for the whole > school, not just per classroom. So I might have five to ten groups running > though the lab all in one day. > > I was thinking of 30 clients, 15 pointing to one lstp server and 15 > pointing to another (to improve performance). And I'd like to redirect the > users home drives to another file server on the system to make it easier to > swap out ltsp servers if necessary. I'd also like to be able to control > user profiles so that when they're client boots up they only have the > option of logging in with Gnome 3 (for example) and any changes they make > to the desktops and profiles (other than saving data to their home > directories which would be redirected on another file server) would be > reset on logging out. And although they wouldn't be allowed to make > permanent changes, I'd like the ability to make changes on they fly. And > I'd like the ability to effect changes at a granular level, May the grade 5 > class could could have access to these programs and icons while the grade 7 > class has access to a different subset. and I'd like to be able to carry > out all of administration/tasks centrally. > > Reviewing what I said, I guess that I asking for a linux/edbuntu solution > comparable to a Windows Server 2003 domain set up using Active Directory > and Group Policies. So maybe I'm in the wrong listserve here? Can anyone > please suggest and alternative resources? > > Thanks, Jeremy Schubert > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Giacomo Trovato" <giacomo.trov...@gmail.com> > To: "Richard Doyle" <rdo...@islandnetworks.com> > Cc: edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 10:45:17 AM > Subject: Re: Creating a school computer lab with edbuntu and ltsp > > Hi All, > > I have not configured locall applications since my thin clients are > very poor: Geode 500 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM without disk. > They are Alix3d3 (http://pcengines.ch/alix3d3.htm). > > 2012/5/21 Richard Doyle <rdo...@islandnetworks.com>: > > On 05/21/2012 09:00 AM, Quynh Vu Do wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> 2012/5/21 Giacomo Trovato <giacomo.trov...@gmail.com > >> <mailto:giacomo.trov...@gmail.com>> > >> > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I'm running Edubuntu 10.01 with 10 thin clients in a school. > >> I started with 3 GB on the server, but when thin clients surf the > >> web with Firefox (and Flash) they sometimes hanged. > >> > >> > >> I had the same problem. It was solved by setting Firefox to run as > >> localapps on the thin client instaed of on the LTSP server : > >> > >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTSPLocalAppSetup > >> > >> It makes a night and day difference with the same amount of RAM on the > >> LTSP server : no more slowdowns and freezes when not running localapps. > >> My config is 4 GB RAM, with a Quad-Core, running a network of 12-14 thin > >> clients (512 Mb RAM). > > > > And video is much smoother in web browsers run as local apps. > > > > Our classroom has a quadcore server with 4 GB RAM, 18 thin clients with > > 2GB apiece, running google chrome as a local app. > > > > -- > > edubuntu-users mailing list > > edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > -- > 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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