Hi all,
I am thinking of setting up a small LTSP network consisting of 10-15
workstations for a local charity. I am coming from the windows terminal
services / Citrix world and i am very familiar with that side of things
and my Linux experience is average at best.
So far I have installed these flavours of an LTSP implementation: The
debianedu based Skolelinux - www.slx.no and Edubuntu 12.04 in a VMWare
virtual server and i have been mighty impressed with the ease of install
of Edubuntu in particular and i think i will go with it. I have been
able to boot up a couple of thin clients simultaneously for testing
purposes and all seemed to run fine in my small lan at home. I loved
some of the built in tools such as Epostes for ease of management.
In terms of hardware, i think we are going for donated/cheap used fat
clients and have the local apps option for LibreOffice, Firefox etc to
ease the load on the server. I am also thinking of having an NFS share
for the /home partition on a separate grey box(if that further helps
ease the load of the server and makes it run better).
As for the server, there are good deals going on where i am for small
office servers such as the HP Proliant ML110 G7 with Intel Xeon E3-1220
/ 3.1 GHz(quad core) and 8 GB of DDR3 1333 mhz RAM(upgradable to 16) and
7200 rpm HD disc with dual Gigabit NICs. Would something like this be
suitable for powering the 10-15 workstations or will that be pushing it?
The charity do not have tech savvy staff and i would like a centralized
user account setup with openldap. But ideally, have a web gui front end
for user account creations and password resets. I am looking into tools
such as Gosa2 - https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/ and Easy LDAP
management found here: http://www.ldap-account-manager.org/ . I have not
been successful so far in setting up these tools, but i am still working
on it. I may ask someone in my local LUG for help with this part if i
struggle. Does anyone know similar tools?
Apologies for asking too many questions as i am still researching and
don't have a clear plan yet. Would appreciate you advice and guidance to
any tool or resource that would help me get answers.
Regards
Faisal
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