Hi Andrie,
Sorry, i should have provided more details regarding the user. The
number of workstations is small but the lab will be open to a large
number of people, potentially tens of users and the staff have never
used linux before.
On 12/06/12 04:04, Adrie Taniwidjaja wrote:
I think for this small size of instalation using Edubuntu default user
manager is more than enough.
Why make the instalation become more complicating with LDAP stuff ?
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 03:51 +0100, Faisal wrote:
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 <http://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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