Hi David,
Thank you for your response and thank you for pointing out Webmin. No I
don't have any LDAP setup currently. Perhaps i can achieve what i want
(an easy web interface for user account administration for the
non-technical staff) using Webmin??? If so, then there is no need for
any LDAP. It is not possible to estimate the number of users right now,
but i suspect the lab will be there to use for a good number of this
organizations users, they run afternoon classes for children and i am
guessing there may be tens of potential users each requiring a user account.
I have been promised used desktop computers being donated by a school
and i don't have their full specs right now. But i am told they would at
least be P4 or better. Sorry about the mixup of the terminology, by fat
client i was referring to regular desktop computers with a local hard
drive. But whether they would host the entire OS image locally or
partially i am not sure about. Which is best and gives best performance?
Regards,
Faisal
On 12/06/12 04:29, David Groos wrote:
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
<mailto: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
<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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