Re: PXE vs DVD installation - the package difference

2010-08-11 Thread Nigel Barker
On 10 August 2010 15:12, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Petter Reinholdtsen] >> As the DVD is already full, we would have to drop some packages from >> our tasks or stop making dual-architecture DVDs (i386/amd64) to fit >> all these on one DVD. Hi Petter, Seems like an endless struggle. What about

shutdown-at-night

2010-08-24 Thread Nigel Barker
Hello everyone, New school year started today - here we go again! Where is shutdown-at-night configured, or where is the documentation for it? thanks nigel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: shutdown-at-night

2010-08-24 Thread nigel barker
On 24 August 2010 17:18, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Nigel Barker] >> Where is shutdown-at-night configured, or where is the documentation for it? > > > The file /usr/share/doc/shutdown-at-night/README contain some > documentation. I read this, and the link from H

Re: shutdown-at-night

2010-08-24 Thread Nigel Barker
On 24 August 2010 22:00, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Nigel Barker] >> I read this, and the link from Holger, but where do I configure the >> time I want them to shutdown? > > It is specified in the cron job of the package, which is a conffile > that can be changed on

Re: shutdown-at-night

2010-08-24 Thread Nigel Barker
On 24 August 2010 23:36, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > The package will try to turn of the machine every hour on the hour > from 16:00 in the afternoon, if I remember correctly, and not turn it > off if the machine seem to have users.  It will try to tell the bios > to turn on the machine around

Re: A new major update of The Linux Signpost

2010-08-25 Thread Nigel Barker
On 25 August 2010 23:32, RalfGesellensetter wrote: > > P.S.: Who else is following the www-int list? Recently there were new > schools assigning, I corrected their coordinates, but didn't respond > to their comments. Anybody volunteering? I don't mind - what do I say? Something like thanks and w

Re: change Computernames from static to ....

2010-08-26 Thread Nigel Barker
On 27 August 2010 04:11, Philipp Huebner wrote: > Hi, > > On 26/08/10 20:58, Martin Schulte wrote: >> while adding computers using lwat, it suggest me computernames like >> staticxx . Can i change this computernames to any other name. e.g. to >> notebookxx? Or will there occur some problems? > > i

Re: change Computernames from static to ....

2010-08-27 Thread Nigel Barker
On 27 August 2010 20:46, Philipp Huebner wrote: > On 27/08/10 01:42, Nigel Barker wrote: >> when you add a machine in lwat, eg. "static00", then the IP field is >> automtically populated with 10.0.2.50 (iirc). If you enter "spiderman" >> it isn'

Re: Advanced group management

2010-08-29 Thread nigel barker
On 29 August 2010 16:13, Martin Schulte wrote: > Hello, > after reading the section 'Advanced group management' i add a section > >   [Abi2013] >   ou = "ou=People,%base%" >   objectClass = top posixAccount shadowAccount imapUser sambaSamAccount >   homeDirectory = /skole/tjener/home0/Abi2013/%use

kstartupconfig won't let me in

2010-09-12 Thread Nigel Barker
Dear All, Anyone have an idea what to do if login fails with Could not start kstartupconfig . Check your installation. but other users can log in on that workstation, and the failing user can log in on other machines without difficulty? This is skolelinux lenny, recently updated. (The failing

Re: kstartupconfig won't let me in

2010-09-12 Thread Nigel Barker
On 13 September 2010 10:38, Nigel Barker wrote: > Dear All, > > Anyone have an idea what to do if login fails with > > Could not start kstartupconfig . Check your installation. > > but other users can log in on that workstation, and the failing user > can log in o

stopmotion export

2010-10-05 Thread Nigel Barker
Dear All, Can someone help me with video export from stopmotion? I have a bunch of jpgs displaying nicely, but when I try to export a movie I get errors. The closest seems to be the ffmpeg option, but it fails with: FFmpeg version SVN-r13582, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al. con

Re: stopmotion export

2010-10-06 Thread Nigel Barker
On 6 October 2010 23:52, Louis-Maurice De Sousa wrote: >> [image2 @ 0xb770a640]Could not find codec parameters (Video: mjpeg) >> /skole/tjener/home0/staff/nigelb/.stopmotion/packer/v1/images/*.jpg: >> could not find codec parameters > > Perhaps is this package missing : >  http://packages.debian.

Re: stopmotion export

2010-10-07 Thread nigel barker
On 7 October 2010 14:44, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >> > Hi, do you give a valid extension to the output file ? In my experience > export fails if the output file isn't given a valid one, like "output.avi". Tried avi , mpg, mv4 and mp4 to no avail. Thanks for the suggestion nigel -- To

Re: stopmotion export

2010-10-07 Thread Nigel Barker
On 7 October 2010 15:14, Louis-Maurice De Sousa wrote: > > But the export line seems wrong. The video file is first and jpg sources > second. > >  http://ffmpeg.org/faq.html#TOC15 no, its source first, output second http://ffmpeg.org/faq.html#SEC14 thanks nigel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

share a mount point

2010-10-31 Thread Nigel Barker
Dear All, If static00 has its local harddrive mounted on /mnt/localdrive, how do I go about sharing that mount point on the network? thanks nigel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: share a mount point

2010-11-01 Thread Nigel Barker
Thanks for the reply Petter On 1 November 2010 15:40, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I would suggest changing the mount point to > /skole/static00/localdrive/ (or replace "localdrive" with a better On tjener, I created /skole/printer18/yearbook(ok I admit I am using printer names for worksta

Re: dvd space issues

2010-11-04 Thread Nigel Barker
On 4 November 2010 00:29, Jürgen Leibner wrote: > > I'm not a teacher and I don't know really what package fits better than > the other. If I had to choose, I can take time and take a look at he > packages 'in action', ask others, investigate in the www or throw a > coin to decide. > I just spen

Re: dvd space issues

2010-11-07 Thread Nigel Barker
On 7 November 2010 17:53, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Nigel Barker] >> Obviously I can contribute this list into a wiki if that seems to be >> a useful thing to do. We are a pre-K-12 school by the way, which >> means ages 3 to 18. > > At least I find such measure po

Re: Diskless workstation on DebianEdu Lenny

2010-11-07 Thread Nigel Barker
On 8 November 2010 06:55, Giacomo Trovato wrote: > Hi All, > > I have tryed to boot machines as diskless workstation but I have always this > message: "Could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation". > I have tryed both network 10.. and 192 (adding "3" on "default" file). > make sure th

Re: dvd space issues

2010-11-09 Thread Nigel Barker
On 7 November 2010 17:53, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > At least I find such measure points very useful, and would love to > hear from more schools what kind of applications they are using.  I > suggest you add your report to wiki.debian.org and would love it if > you could take responsibility for

change everyone's iceweasel prefs

2010-11-09 Thread Nigel Barker
Dear All, Of course there is a perpetual struggle with Hotmail and Iceweasel, but now Google spreadsheets is also refusing to play. While the ideal is to get these people to stop restricting access to only the browsers they know, I have to take a more pragmatic approach. So I would like to change

Re: change everyone's iceweasel prefs

2010-11-11 Thread nigel barker
On 10 November 2010 22:20, Holger Levsen wrote: >> >> general.useragent.extra.firefox >> >> to be Firefox/3.0.6 instead of Iceweasel/3.0.6 >> > > it's probably easiest if you copy it to /etc/iceweasel/pref/nigel.js (or > whatever other filename which doesnt exist) instead. > > And then you can e

Re: Which video editor should we install by default?

2010-12-15 Thread Nigel Barker
On 15 December 2010 15:40, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > But which ones should we drop?  We do not need nor have space on the > DVD for 5 video editors (kino, kdenlive, openmovieeditor, pitivi and > openshots). > > You won't be happy to hear that we use avidemux here, then :) We use it with prim

Re: workstation boots but can't find kstartupconfig and OpenDNS setup?

2010-12-27 Thread Nigel Barker
Hi David, I'll hazard a few suggestions in the absence of a more qualified reply. On 27 December 2010 05:39, David Goldstrom wrote: > > server. I've added a single HP T5735 client machine at 10.0.2.50 on "intern" > and > can get it to boot PXE. I can login and get a KDE desktop as a thinclient.

Re: mounting folders on startup; using kde/startup?

2011-01-02 Thread Nigel Barker
On 1 January 2011 05:32, David Goldstrom wrote: > I've tried putting a file in root/desktop/kde/startup called "mount" with > mount --bind /medialv /skole/ltsp/i386/testuser/desktop/Media > to bind /medialv with a folder I created on their root. Hi David, Can you confirm what you want to do - wh

Re: mounting folders on startup; using kde/startup?

2011-01-03 Thread Nigel Barker
On 3 January 2011 13:15, David Goldstrom wrote: > Hi David, I'm not sure where the volume is that you want to share. Try this thread to see a failed attempt of mine to share a workstation drive. If that's what you want, you might be more succesful than me. http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/201

Re: LINBO and "self-healing" workstations

2011-01-08 Thread Nigel Barker
On 8 January 2011 17:40, Andreas B. Mundt wrote: > > However, I would have hoped that we can do better. Is it really on a > regular basis that machines are attacked and spoiled in the evil > school environment? How often does that happen? Where are the flaws > that allow compromising the machines

Re: Make LibreOffice part of Debian Edu

2011-02-15 Thread Nigel Barker
On 15 February 2011 17:55, RalfGesellensetter wrote: > > And, wow! - it's been a long time ago that a new version > took my breath away like LibreOffice 3.3! There is so much > improvement (e.g. with printing!), proving that forking was > the right step. Hi Ralf, When I was printing the semester

Re: diskless workstations / setup

2011-03-30 Thread Nigel Barker
On 30 March 2011 14:16, RalfGesellensetter wrote: > Dear Oded, > > thanks for your mediating approach ;) > > Am Mittwoch, 30. März 2011 schrieb Oded Naveh: >> I don't understand why would there be an dhcpd on an LTSP? > > There used to be dhcpd on eth1 (192.168.0.254) to serve thin > clients on a

Re: diskless workstations / setup

2011-03-30 Thread Nigel Barker
On 31 March 2011 03:32, RalfGesellensetter wrote: > Hi Nigel, > > nice to hear from you in Japan, so I guess you are alright... everything normal here. We don't even have power cuts - no national grid in Japan, can you believe? > > Well, what kind of workstation do you use, or what services apar

Re: Debian Edu for Schools

2011-04-06 Thread nigel barker
Hi Chikondi, On 7 April 2011 03:21, Chikondi Lifa wrote: > Edu across my network.  However before I can go ahead, I would like to know > if there are any IB, MYP, PYP schools using the software and how they are > using it.  I wish to know what applications they are running to teach the > studen

browser races

2011-06-21 Thread Nigel Barker
Dear All, Thanks for all the hard work you are putting in lately. I have some concerns about browsers that might affect other schools, A few days ago hotmail stopped working with iceweasel (skolelinux lenny - 3.0.6 I think it is) again. This time it can't be fixed by user-agent-string tweaks. A

Re: Grub and bootslpash

2011-07-04 Thread Nigel Barker
On 5 July 2011 00:36, Jean-Charles Skolelinux wrote: > Hello, > > How can I disable the bootsplash on Tjener or on a workstation ? Hi Jean-Charles, /boot/grub/menu.lst add "nosplash" to the end of the line that begins with "kernel". Its down near the end of the file. It may already say "splash",

hd space question

2011-08-14 Thread Nigel Barker
Hi All, I am using debian-edu-fsautoresize on tjener (Lenny). As time goes by, I seem to be losing space. See this line from df -h /dev/mapper/vg_system-skole+tjener+home0 132G 96G 29G 77% /skole/tjener/home0 As you can see there are about 7G missing (132 - 96 =36), a

Re: hd space question

2011-08-15 Thread Nigel Barker
On 15 August 2011 14:05, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > tune2fs -m 0 /dev/mapper/vg_system-skole+tjener+home0 Great! thanks a lot nigel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/

Re: browser races

2011-08-20 Thread Nigel Barker
On 22 June 2011 15:53, Andreas B. Mundt wrote: > > Are you aware of: > >    http://mozilla.debian.net/> > > Perhaps it's possible to use that archive in your case. Let us know it > it is a good (or at least working) solution. > No I wasn't, and it is really useful for squeeze (not lenny though).

squid and flash

2011-09-13 Thread Nigel Barker
Dear All, Is it possible that squid (lenny tjener) drops some flash content? I thought it might be our firewall, so I disabled it for testing and nothing changed. For example on this site most of the games don't make it through (though some of them do - just not the ones the teacher wants!) http:

Re: squid and flash

2011-09-19 Thread Nigel Barker
On 19 September 2011 16:00, Alf Tonny Bätz wrote: > Hm this sounds abit like a problem I have experienced with the gnash > installed. We solved that problem with remove gnash and installed the > flashplugin-nonfree version > Thanks for this suggestion Alf, and to you too Ralf. I am already using

scratch?

2011-10-25 Thread Nigel Barker
Hello Everyone, Is anyone using Scratch on Lenny? I have it working fine (no sound, but I don't care) on i386 workstations, but when I do the force-architecture recommended* for amd64, it doesn't work in three out of four cases. Unfortunately the one that works is my workstation, and the three tha

Re: scratch?

2011-10-27 Thread Nigel Barker
On 27 October 2011 20:26, Wolfgang Schweer wrote: > Packages ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk have to be installed on amd64 arch. > But you'll probably get a somehow crippled program, cause some packages > on lenny will be too old to satisfy the dependencies for scratch. Hi Wolfgang, Yes, I should h

Re: scratch?

2011-10-28 Thread Nigel Barker
Hi All, After all ia32-libs wins! The machine I was testing wasn't a clean lenny, because it had some packages from squeeze. Now I just tried again on another server and I can use scratch on a thin client. thanks a lot nigel 2011/10/27 José Luis Redrejo : > 2011/10/27 Nigel Barker :

Re: debian install

2012-02-02 Thread Nigel Barker
On 2 February 2012 18:26, Giorgio Pioda wrote: > Try > > cat youriso.iso > /dev/sdX (Raw device, not partition!) Vaughn, you have to find out the X in sdX. So when you plug your usb drive in, go to a terminal and type dmesg. Then look at the last few messages to see what letter X is. It might sa

why does iceweasel run on login?

2012-02-24 Thread Nigel Barker
Hello All, Thanks for all the hard work you have been putting in. I have done a little testing, not much I'm afraid. I have done a few attempts at standalone install on a p4 with 512M and on a dell mini9 with 1G, using the CD image on a usb stick. Normal install, if I say NO to automatic partitio

Re: why does iceweasel run on login?

2012-02-24 Thread Nigel Barker
On 24 February 2012 22:06, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The CD or the DVD ISO?  Your experience make me suspect you actually > used the DVD. > I used a 1G stick, so it must have been CD? > I hope you test the roaming workstation profile with a local main > server as well.  It is the new and nic

Re: why does iceweasel run on login?

2012-02-24 Thread Nigel Barker
I'll post back if I get anything useful nigel On 24 February 2012 22:47, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Nigel Barker] >> I used a 1G stick, so it must have been CD? > > Yes.  In that case, I guess d-i believe 486 is the best kernel for > your machine.  I have no idea how

Re: why does iceweasel run on login?

2012-02-25 Thread nigel barker
On 25 February 2012 17:18, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > So a standalone need the size of 98edustandalone, which is around 13 > GiB. thanks for this - now I don't have to guess which ones will fail after 20mins. > >> I notice that the local user created during install disappears by the >> end o

fixed www welcome page

2012-02-28 Thread Nigel Barker
I fixed the English of the www welcome page. I did it using the pot file used for translations. I hope that was the right thing to do. I'm attaching it here. I used poedit, which complained about headers when I saved. I didn't know what it was talking about. I asked my friend to translate it into

Re: fixed www welcome page

2012-02-28 Thread Nigel Barker
On 29 February 2012 09:55, Nigel Barker wrote: > I fixed the English of the www welcome page. I did it using the pot I want to change the welcome line to: Welcome to «www»: Debian Edu administration information sorry nigel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: fixed www welcome page

2012-02-28 Thread Nigel Barker
On 29 February 2012 14:29, David Prévot wrote: > Not really: tho PO files are always generated from the source files > (index.html.en here). > sorry! > > Please note that, even if I can't judge of the quality of your > proposals, I would prefer *not* to commit them as is. I have no problem wit

Re: why does iceweasel run on login?

2012-02-29 Thread Nigel Barker
On 25 February 2012 17:18, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Btw, do you know anyone capable of translating the web page and debconf > questions to Japanese?  Would be nice to have Japanese as an option. :) I believe debconf has been done by kenji Web page is attached. It was done by my non-techni

Re: why does iceweasel run on login?

2012-02-29 Thread Nigel Barker
On 29 February 2012 19:58, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Japanese, for use in the links at the top of the page.  Can you > provide the UTF-8 string, and I'll handle the rest? 日本語 thanks nigel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: scratch?

2012-03-05 Thread Nigel Barker
On 8 December 2011 02:59, Mike Gabriel wrote: > > We have ported scratch so that it installs smoothly on Debian Edu squeeze. > Thanks for this Mike. Very useful nigel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: userfiles on laptops

2012-03-09 Thread Nigel Barker
On 10 March 2012 06:05, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Sebastian Holl] > > Yes.  You might have to adjust the network setup in > /etc/network/interfaces to make sure the wifi network is configured at > boot time and not when the user log in (which is not going to work > with a workstation, as the n

Re: Which hardware are you using with Skolelinux / Debian Edu?

2012-03-12 Thread Nigel Barker
On 11 March 2012 05:30, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > If you have a Debian Edu server operational, can you run > /usr/lib/sitesummary/hardware-model-summary and share the result?  This > is the result from my test setup: We have a lot of old and/or generic hardware, so I don't think its worth th

Re: Gnash != useless

2012-05-20 Thread Nigel Barker
On 21 May 2012 03:59, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > If we want Flash to keep working, we need to switch to Chrome, or fund > more free flash (Gnash/Lightspark) work. > Flash is essential here. So many primary school activities include it. Many activities (eg. on BBC kids) need flash>10, and don'

Re: Thin clients or Diskless WS?

2012-05-29 Thread Nigel Barker
I would say it depends on how many. Here I have about 60 Skolelinux computers to manage. A few years ago they were almost all thin clients. Today they are almost all normal workstations (not diskless). I don't have the budget for good servers or fast network gear, so I avoid performance bottleneck

Re: Install scratch by default on Debian Edu Desktops in Wheezy?

2013-04-21 Thread nigel barker
On 21 April 2013 17:56, Wolfgang Schweer wrote: >> visual programming. The scratch package is available in Debian >> Wheezy, but not installed by default in Debian Edu. Should we install >> it as part of the desktop profile? > > I believe that this wood be appreciated. > Dear All, In case you

Re: Install scratch by default on Debian Edu Desktops in Wheezy?

2013-04-22 Thread nigel barker
On 23 April 2013 01:23, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > bluefish teaching html and css in middle and high school > chromium a)sometimes iceweasel doesn't work, esp on interactive sites like codecademy b) little kids don't know how to fix "iceweasel already running" > drpython teaching python

Re: More new packages for Debian Edu (Was: Install scratch by default on Debian Edu Desktops in Wheezy?)

2013-04-25 Thread nigel barker
On 25 April 2013 16:54, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I see the advantages, but worry that Konqueror, Iceweasel and Chromium > are too many browsers to include. I don't have konqueror, because I'm using lxde. Will lxde be an option in debian edu wheezy? > >> > ibus-anthy >> type Japanese > > W

Re: More new packages for Debian Edu

2013-04-25 Thread nigel barker
On 25 April 2013 18:09, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Right. Please have a look at > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/branches/wheezy/debian-edu/tasks/lang-ja-desktop?view=markup > > > and let us know if other plackages should be replaced too. All of the scim packages can go. Thi

groups and homes

2008-08-13 Thread nigel barker
Dear All, If I want home directories corresponding to the year group, eg. home09 (for the class of 2009), and group 2009, then I supposed that i should use lwat to create an automount share home09 and a group 2009. But then what do I do? I want to be able to add users to that group, and have their

NAS?

2008-08-16 Thread nigel barker
Has anyone tried a consumer NAS on skolelinux network? I can get a 1TB box with raid5 for about the price of a pc. But would it work? nigel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

increase /tmp

2008-08-24 Thread nigel barker
dear list how do I increase the size of /tmp on a skolelinux workstation? I need it to install smart board software. sorry for the beginners question. nigel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Viable Alternative

2008-09-08 Thread nigel barker
Hi Dan, We use debian-edu from age 4 to 18. There are plenty of activities for younger children already included, which we supplement with Internet sites such as BBC schools. There is a lack of a simple and friendly word-processor to match the nice painting programs. Such a thing doesn't see

Re: Wich category of Distrowatch?

2008-09-16 Thread nigel barker
> 2008/9/15 RalfGesellensetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I found http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=skolelinux as >> well - no category. So if you would just be kind enough to add us to >> categories such as >> >>Distribution category >> Beginners >> Desktop >> Education >>

stop aptitude removing packages

2008-09-18 Thread nigel barker
Dear All, You may remember helping me to remove OOo2.0 so that I could install 2.4 debs from OO.org. The problem is that now each time I upgrade, aptitude removes open office, and I have to reinstall it: -- The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: openoffice.org-base

Re: stop aptitude removing packages

2008-10-02 Thread nigel barker
Ji ZhengYu wrote: If there are no conflicts among packages or potential dependencies, you can solve this problem like this: 1. run `aptitude' as root 2. find those packages, usually you will find them in `locally install' catalogue 3. move the cursor to title of package, press `=' and

msi wind

2008-10-05 Thread nigel barker
Dear All, I have an msi wind and an acer aspire one that I'm testing. So far I've installed Lenny on the wind and everything works except the wireless. I've struggled with some online howtos, and also attempted to alien some rpms from msi, but no joy. Jose, I believe you have succeeded with this,

Re: msi wind

2008-10-05 Thread nigel barker
update: fixed the wireless after discovering this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/246141/comments/47 thanks! > Dear All, > > I have an msi wind and an acer aspire one that I'm testing. So far I've > installed Lenny on the wind and everything works except the wireless.

Re: Problem starting diskless workstation

2008-10-08 Thread nigel barker
> No suggestions? not a good one, I'm afraid, but I had this problem many years ago before I used skolelinux. It was caused by the tftp root being wrong. nigel > > 2008/10/7 Valerio Pachera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi all, I'm trying to start a diskless workstation (DW). >> >> It find the server

how to restore?

2008-10-16 Thread nigel barker
Already 2 months into the school year, and now the first student who can't find his work. However, I can't figure out how to restore. I go to https://tjener then I choose backup, sign in, select the client to restore (tjener), browse to find the directory I want to restore, and then what? I d

Re: Grups and LWAT

2008-10-20 Thread nigel barker
Valerio Pachera wrote: Can a user belong at the same time to more roles? If I try to ad a second role to a user, lwat goes back to the login screen. Why I need that? I have a programa that has to be run only fron the teachers so I assign ti to the teacher group. One of these teacher is also jrad

flash n java

2008-11-13 Thread nigel barker
Dear All, Yesterday I installed another etch ltspserver from the etch DVD. Its x86_64 and refuses to take flash plugin from Adobe, even though that is what I installed on my amd64 ltspservers and workstations without any problems. flashplugin-nonfree gives no candidate version. Then today I

hotmail

2008-11-13 Thread nigel barker
If like me you have students who use Hotmail (in other words they have learned nothing), then you may know that it is currently broken on Iceweasel. A workaround is to do about:config and change the word Iceweasel to Firefox in the user agent string. May save some negative comments going home.

[Fwd: Re: flash n java]

2008-11-13 Thread nigel barker
sorry, replied to Bjarne instead of list. Bjarne Nielsen wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:56:28 +0100, nigel barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't think I'm doing anything different from all the other installs over the past year or more (I admit most on i686, but for su

Re: hotmail

2008-11-16 Thread nigel barker
RalfGesellensetter wrote: do you use Squid? You might block hotmail anyway - or you just install Hi Ralf, no I don't want to block any webmail. Kids need it for work. We ask all kids over grade 5 to have their own webmail address. That's why I needed this fix. Opera. Does MS block "Iceweasel

access samba from another linux

2008-12-05 Thread nigel barker
Dear All, I have been observing some irregular samba behaviour that I hope you can advise me on. When Tjener is accessed from Windows, it seems everything works as expected. However, from non-debianedu linux it isn't. I have two laptops running plain lenny. One can access tjener well via network b

Re: access samba from another linux

2008-12-06 Thread nigel barker
Thanks for the reply Jurgen, > So it would be nice to have the following informations: > > From the server the file /etc/samba/smb.conf not now - I am at home now. It is modified to have a shared folder in home0 rw by anyone, and to have another in home0/staff/ rw to members of the teachers group,

open office?

2009-01-05 Thread nigel barker
Happy New Year everyone! How unreasonable/impossible is it to ask for open office 3 to be in the Lenny debian-edu? nigel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

how to mount home0 on other Linux?

2009-01-11 Thread nigel barker
Hello All, I'm still struggling with my "other" laptops, which are either dell minis bought with ubuntu, or other netbooks running plain lenny. They have generic auto-login, so I need a way for users to mount their home from tjener. Unfortunately, Gnome seems not to have any gui tools for mountin

Re: turning this list into a moderated one

2009-02-03 Thread nigel barker
RalfGesellensetter wrote: Am Montag 02 Februar 2009 schrieb Klaus Ade Johnstad: I said I'd volunteer. Me, too. I have to admit to not following this thread. However, if moderation is something a normal person can do, then I would be happy to volunteer, so that project members ca

lenny testing

2009-02-09 Thread nigel barker
Dear All, I installed debian-edu lenny on an dell mini9. Seems ok, but I can't log in as a skolelinux user. I entered the machine in lwat and dhcp, and it is getting the correct ip address. syslog on the laptop shows getpwnam(username) failed I used the i386 dvd1 downloaded yesterday. thanks

Re: how to mount home0 on other Linux?

2009-02-10 Thread nigel barker
Ralf wrote: > > How about using sshfs? > > As root do: > # apititude install sshfs > # adduser yourusername fuse > > Possibly you need to restart some services like pam - or at least > re-enter your session as "yourusername". > > No create a mount point like: > $ mkdir ~/myTjener > > ...and: > $ ss

Re: [Bug 1336] Impossible to edit user

2009-02-26 Thread nigel barker
Today a child in grade 2 couldn't remember his password. I fired up my new lwat, which I updated last week, and couldn't fix his password until I had dragged up this message out of my trash, followed it to the bug report, and finally found out which file to edit to restore normal behaviour. T

ltspserver specs?

2009-03-12 Thread nigel barker
what specs are people using for 15 or 20 thin clients nowadays? I am very unhappy with my most recent dual core servers which perform much worse than the really old p4 and athlon boxes that I still have running. I need to replace those old machines before they die and I don't want to keep getting w

[Fwd: RE: ltspserver specs?]

2009-03-12 Thread nigel barker
Sorry, sent to Oded instead of list Original Message Subject: RE: ltspserver specs? From:"nigel barker" Date:Thu, March 12, 2009 11:02 pm To: &

RE: ltspserver specs?

2009-03-13 Thread nigel barker
> Could you list the missing packages? > It may be important information for server specification. > I believe (not sure) that performance could gain from using amd64, > 64 arch is required for big RAM over 4GB. I don't really remember. Perhaps Java was one? I posted here about it a while ago, an

not connecting ldap

2009-03-16 Thread nigel barker
Hi folks Today I installed a Lenny ltspserver from a DVD rsynced on 15 March. Then I updated. Unable to login as a ldap user (Etch Tjener). Machine is in ldap and getting its hostname/ip correctly. cheers nigel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: SkoleLinux and Live disks

2009-04-03 Thread nigel barker
> > Hello. > > We were looking for a live Edubuntu CD iso image, to download and write, > and > demonstrate to a relative who is a deputy principal (and, it would be a > good > opportunity, in another state of Australia, where the state government is > reported to be going to spend 25 million AUD t

Re: Please test Japanese debian-edu installation

2009-04-07 Thread nigel barker
Hi Petter I did a netinst standalone. Everything is in Japanese, and scim input is working. Thanks! nigel Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Hi, Nigel. Please test a Japanese installation of the daily built Debian Edu/Lenny version. I recommend Standalone installation now unless you already got a

Re: Edubuntu's focus, and future.

2009-05-25 Thread nigel barker
> > First of all, you are 100% correct, edubuntu has fallen wayside, but in > the > last week or so we have been working hard, making plans to "bring it to > life" a little more. We had a meeting on friday. Someone posted the > minutes to the mailing list, so check the archive if you're interest

Re: re - SkoleLinux for K-12

2009-06-15 Thread nigel barker
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [brian mullan] [snip] ec 2007 seems like a long stretch... how active is the Skolelinux community in supporting the software? Thanks for any URLs or reply info. Hi. Passing your message on to the developers list at debian-...@. The drift@ mailing list is

Re: Debian Edu Etch Installer with newer kernel

2009-08-04 Thread nigel barker
> [Philipp Huebner] >>> That said, Kenshi Muto has build d-i images which newer kernels. >> Cool, thanks for the hint! >> But I've only found regular d-i images, none for debian edu, is that >> correct? > > Debian Edu since Etch uses normal d-i images. The installation > overrides are done using u

Re: pushing lenny

2009-08-06 Thread nigel barker
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:42:19PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: >> http://tinyurl.com/edulenny-releaseview lists the bugs affecting our >> lenny. >> >> IMO we should release, once we have all priority 2 bugs fixed, at the >> moment >> these are: >> >> 1329blo P1 last steps before releasing

Re: Bug#1354 (was: Re: pushing lenny)

2009-08-07 Thread nigel barker
> On Friday 07 August 2009 13:45:39 Holger Levsen wrote: > >> On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Oded Naveh wrote: > >> > > > 1354nor P2 Installation of ltspserver-profile stops. >> > >> > DVD Only. >> >> So what? IMO we still need to fix it... > So it suggests (if read in context) that the pro

Re: Bug#1354 (was: Re: pushing lenny)

2009-08-08 Thread nigel barker
> On Saturday 08 August 2009 04:04:29 nigel barker wrote: >> > On Friday 07 August 2009 13:45:39 Holger Levsen wrote: >> >> On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Oded Naveh wrote: >> >> > > > 1354nor P2 Installation of ltspserver-profile stops. >&

sound on thin clients

2009-08-08 Thread nigel barker
KDE system sounds are coming out of my thin client, but no other sounds are - most apps complain that they can't find a sound device. mplayer (/ plugin) just stops (doesn't play) with streaming audio. Is there something I need to set? I have been through the list of sound systems in KDE control ce

ltsp hardware again

2009-08-11 Thread nigel barker
Dear All, I have a hardware question. (Remember I have been having bad luck with performance of ltsp servers, and Jose suggested the NIC is the bottleneck) I need an LTSPserver for a room of 20 thin clients. I can get a dual core xeon for the same price as a core 2 quad/phenomII x4 (same RAM, pci

Re: Debian Edu Etch Installer with newer kernel

2009-08-12 Thread nigel barker
> > Hi Nigel, > > how are you? Maybe you can sync that page with Philip's howto at http://wiki.skolelinux.de/PhilippHuebner/customTerminalserverLenny > > (translate from German to English using any online tool) > > Regards > Ralf > Philipp, thanks for writing that, and Ralf for connecting me. I fo

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