Hi Faisal, I'm not sure I understand completely -- do you already have an LDAP server running and you want to tie into that, or are you wanting to create an LDAP server on the edubuntu server to manage your users? I've done the former, but if you don't already have a centrally managed LDAP system I would simply use the normal user management system. For the first 3.5 years I used this built in system. I also used webmin to manage users and in general was happy with it.
(also, you mentioned you were going to get used, 'fat clients' that you were going to run as local apps--I believe the correct term is you were going to get used 'thick clients' since with LTSP we have the term 'fat clients' used to described a situation where the client runs everything locally, getting the entire image from the server. Please describe the specs of the used hardware you are getting.) If you run 15 clients as local apps you will be quite fine with the server hardware you described, I'd say. If you are able to use fat clients (by having powerful enough HW specs on the clients) seems like the server setup would be overkill. David G On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Faisal <xashi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 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 > > > -- > ------------------------------ > > > Adrie Taniwidjaja - PT. BeLogix Indonesia > Jl. Lengkong Kecil No.73 Bandung > ad...@belogix.com, 022 9199 8360 > > > > -- > 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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