On 12/06/12 12:18, Matt Johnson wrote:
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From: Faisal<xashi...@gmail.com>
To: edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Tuesday, 12 June 2012, 3:51
Subject: A small LTSP network setup
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.
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?
I think you'll find that server hardware handles your demands well. It all
becomes particularly scalable when you introduce local apps as you plan. We use
a similarly spec'd server to server a suite of 32 machines (actually, the
server serves 64 machines to 250 users, but seldom are more than 40
workstations on at once).
I really don't think you'll need or want ldap. Desktop user management tools
that come with the setup really will be easy to use and scale without a problem.
We're just experimenting with fat clients with 12.04. So far, so good.
Welcome aboard.
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Matt
Hi Matt,
Thank you very much for your feedback and advice. I will drop LDAP as
you all suggested and stick with the built in tools. I have briefly used
Webmin before for basic mysql database config and stuff like that, but
will re-visit it once again to learn more about it.
It is encouraging to read your comments regarding your HW setup and how
many workstations you can power from that one server alone. Impressive
to say the least and it is a testimony to the efficiency linux has offer.
Cheers,
Faisal
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