Lockdown

I'm a new user of Edubuntu (7.04) setting up a classroom network for student use. The Lockdown editor is accessible to all users without requiring a superuser password, which seems odd. Can one lockdown the lockdown editor? -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modif

Re: Lockdown

On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 13:23 -0700, Richard Doyle wrote: > I'm a new user of Edubuntu (7.04) setting up a classroom network for > student use. The Lockdown editor is accessible to all users without > requiring a superuser password, which seems odd. > > Can one lockdown

Re: Lockdown

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 11:48 -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: > john wrote: > > I'll just add my two cents here and say, in addition to locking down > > the desktop, I'd love to have a template that gave our student users > > less options. I really only want them to use Open Office and web > > browser

Re: Lockdown

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 13:46 -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: > Alfred Nutile wrote: > > I think Sabayon is still rather broke for Feisty. Please let me know if I > > am > > wrong since I really need it to work. > > I've looked at the shell script that applies the sabayon profile, it's > /etc/X11/X

USB drive unmount

Local USB drives mount nicely on Edubuntu 7.04 thin clients. Plug it in, it shows up on the desktop, you can read and write files. All good, but I can't find any way to for a local, ordinary, user to unmount the device. Right-clicking the new icon on the desktop doesn't offer an unmount option. Th

Re: USB drive unmount

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 09:28 -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:47:46AM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > > Perhaps this is too difficult, I'm unsure how the thin client magic device > > stuff works. > > Because LTSP mounts aren't HAL aware yet, there's no real way to make

Re: Thin-client manager not working - ideas?

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 11:22 -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote: > On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:14:19 -0400, David Trask wrote > > Ok, > > > > Last issue and I'm going home (it's 3 a.m.) I've just finished getting 2 > > Edubuntu servers up and runningthey are in dhcp-load balance/failover > > mode (working

Re: Edubuntu 7.04 still not working: thumb drives/local dev

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 12:16 -0700, john wrote: > Hi all, > > I am still unable to get thumb drives to work under edubuntu 7.04 > I am using the linux-image-server kernel 2.6.20-16-server since I have > 8 gigs of memory. > > I have added a local user to the fuse group and lsmod shows > > fuse

Re: Sabayon and Ebuntu don't play well together was Re: cant login

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 13:48 -0700, john wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wanted to toss my .02 in on this old discussion. Today I > installed Sabayon because I wanted to set some user defaults under > gnome and after the install no users could log in via LDM. Did you assign Sabayon profiles to these us

Re: Ubuntu 7.04 and LTSP

On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 18:40 -0400, Tom Misilo wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to setup a LTSP server with 7.04 using this tutorial > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThinClientHowto and > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientHowtoNAT > > I have two network cards, > > The internet is on eth0: 192.168.

Re: Does someone know how to install Pidgin on Ubuntu?

Please don't hijack threads. On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 20:20 -0700, Charlie Dorff wrote: > Hi... > I am having trouble downloading and installing Pidgin Messenger for > Ubuntu. I keep getting a message saying "could not open Pidgin, > archive not supported". Does someone know the best website to downl

Re: Unable to boot thin clients

Google thinks you are trying to load a module compiled for a different architecture. More details on your setup might help. On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 10:00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed Edubuntu 7.10 and now when my thin clients try to > boot they stop at the message: > [25.14452

Re: Package gnome-watchdog - cleans up gnome user session

On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 22:26 +0100, Philipp Hanselmann wrote: > Hi, > > Like we have only P4 server which supporting up to 20 thin clients > > I did a lot of tricks to get Edubuntu working including sound! > > So I had the issues that a user gnome session doesn't get cleaned up > after a user l

Re: I am having difficulty lisening to the radio online

On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 12:31 -0800, Charlie Dorff wrote: > Hi... > I am having difficulty listening to the radio online. I click on > listen. A dialog box pops up and asks me what I want to do with this > file. Open with Rhythmbox media player (defalt) is checked I click on > ok. Then Rhythmbox Med

Upgrade?

We're happily running Edubuntu 7.04, but are interested in upgrading to Gutsy (Edubuntu 7.10) over the winter holidays. Is the upgrade worthwhile? Faster start-up of client sessions under Gutsy is attractive, but what are the negatives? I'm concerned about reports of problems with local devices (U

RE: Edubuntu 7.10 - A Released Debacle and a Practice in Failure -Response

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 10:08 -0800, Mike White wrote: > > A sensible > > school (in my opinion) should do once a year upgrades during the > yearly > > transition > > (summer break for us). > > > > My 2 cents, > > Jim > > > > Not sure how unique our situation is, but as we use 7.04 to serve 28 >

Local devices vs. Gutsy

We upgraded our lab from Feisty to Gutsy over the last couple of weeks. All was working well until I noticed that no more than one client could use local usb drives, as described in bug 160240 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ltsp/+bug/160420) . The discussion of the bug in that thread p

Re: Local devices vs. Gutsy

No replies, so I'll simplify my question: Has anyone gotten local devices to work on more than one client under 7.10? On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 10:33 -0800, Richard Doyle wrote: > We upgraded our lab from Feisty to Gutsy over the last couple of weeks. > All was working well until I noti

Re: Local devices vs. Gutsy

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 14:27 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > On Di, 2008-01-08 at 10:33 -0800, Richard Doyle wrote: > > We upgraded our lab from Feisty to Gutsy over the last couple of weeks. > > All was working well until I noticed that no more than one client could > &

Re: Local devices vs. Gutsy

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:02 +, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 09 Jan 2008, Richard Doyle wrote: > > > Everything, including usb drives, is working well now, > > As someone who hasn't yet put gutsy into production, this is most > reassuring.

Delayed-mounter

Since, according to ogra, delayed-mounter is only used for floppies or devices that exist before login, would there be any negative consequences of removing S10-delayed-mounter altogether, other than having no access to floppies and pre-existing devices? Our thin clients lack floppy or CD drives,

Re: locking down the desktop

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 08:01 -0800, btabor wrote: > All students log in the same (see the same desktop). > Then they can navigate to their network folders. Why did you set things up this way? You wouldn't have overly cluttered desktops if you'd used the default configuration, with separate desktops

Re: locking down the desktop

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 08:09 -0800, Patrick Lyons wrote: > is there a way to lock down the panels as well? my kids have been > dragging and dropping the panels to different edges of the screen and > dragging objects onto the panel. its easy enough to fix, but i would > like to prevent it so i don't

Re: How to mass create users

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:01 -0700, Jim Hutchinson wrote: > On Jan 23, 2008 11:33 AM, Joseph Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been reading a lot of recommendations for giving each student their own > > account on the terminal server but I am loathe to go through the user > > creation pro

Re: FreeNX connect to Edubuntu

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 16:02 -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote: > Does anyone have a good tutorial or link to instructions to getting FreeNX > working with > Edubuntu? This isn't exactly what you are asking for, but Nomachine NX is free as in beer (apparently the libraries and some components are GPL 2,

Re: request for some help with performance and sound

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:42 -0500, Patrick McKnight wrote: > Greetings, > > I am new to Edubuntu but not new to linux (using exclusively since > 1996). Recently, I installed Edubuntu in my research lab. Which version? > The install was a replacement for an Ubuntu (Dapper) setup with LTSP > tha

RE: request for some help with performance and sound

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 14:50 -0500, Patrick McKnight wrote: > Richard, > > Thanks for the quick reply and sorry about excluding relevant > information. Were you using the default Via driver (the xorg version) in both instances? > > I am using 7.10 (Gutsy) now. The install is the AMD64 version on

Re: request for some help with performance and sound

at least I ran out of time to find a way to make any of them work. > > Thanks for the questions. They are leading me at least in a direction > to figure out the source of my problem. > > On Feb 5, 2008 3:11 PM, Richard Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >

Firefox 3 memory usage

Firefox 3 promises to reduce memory usage: http://blog.pavlov.net/2008/03/11/firefox-3-memory-usage/ -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users

Re: Sabayon not working in Hardy

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 03:58 +1300, Krsnendu dasa wrote: > I have installed Hardy and Sabayon. > The xnest window opens up and I make changes. I click save changes. > The window closes. The changes are not saved. > > It seems Sabayon has been broken for a long time. Is it being > maintained? There

Re: local device (USB-stick) and users groups problem

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 17:10 +0300, Ismail ISLEYEN wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed Edubuntu 7.10 on Dell Poweredge 2800 server (Xeon 3.6 > Ghz x 2, 12 GB Ram, 146 x 4 Hdd) in computer room. There are 40 HP T5000 > (T5525) clients to connect to the server. I have an urgent problem to be > solved a

OpenSSL vulnerability

There is a potentially serious vulnerability in OpenSSL which affects Edubuntu and other Debian-based distributions: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-1

Re: Core 2 Quad

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 05:04 +1200, Krsnendu dasa wrote: > Has anyone had any problems or good experience with Intel Core 2 Quads > running edubuntu? > I am having weird problems and wondered if it could be the quad core > processor? Works fine for me. -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-us

Re: OpenSSL vulnerability

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 21:12 -0700, Richard Doyle wrote: > There is a potentially serious vulnerability in OpenSSL which affects > Edubuntu and other Debian-based distributions: > http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/

Re: Towards a simpler desktop environment: What is the current state of the art?

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 10:52 -0700, john wrote: > Hello all, > > I am getting complaints from teachers that students are customizing > their desktops to the point that they are distracting students from > productive work. I'd like to make the edubuntu desktop MUCH simpler, > just an applications me

Re: how do you kill a user's old processes when they try to log back on

On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 12:34 +0200, Dean Mumby wrote: > I must say that the move from 7.04 to 8.04 has been very disappointing. > I have 8 HP t5125 which are 400MHz 128MB ram machines. They ran > perfectly under 7.04 avoiding heavy websites. Under 8.04 they are > useless if the user starts multit

Re: Is it just me, or is LTSP a mess?

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 20:10 +0200, kjetil knudsen wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Asmo Koskinen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kjetil knudsen kirjoitti: > > > We have also the exact same experience. We are a big school > with over > >

Re: Ubuntu-ltsp is not a mess! [ but needs some polish :) ]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 09:37 -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 02:07:23PM +0200, Pierre Yann Baco wrote: > > > First sites used woody+LTSP4.2. Last june, the local education > > department required all schools to be updated to Ubuntu Hardy + LTSP5. > > I've done so (inc. add

Re: How to share a folder among Edubuntu users ?

On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 13:55 -0700, Sergio Dicandia wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problema on a 8.04 running in my school. > Each thin client logs on using a username (pc01, pc02, ..., pc10) and > have its own home dir. > Since kids can log onto a different client each time, I need to show > them their

Re: How to copy menus and application settings between users ?

On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 05:21 -0700, Sergio Dicandia wrote: > I'm preparing a new server for our classrom with 20 thin clients. I > need to customize menus and change some application settings, but I > cannot find a way to replicate the same settings on new users. It > seems I need to do the same thi

Re: What user management software do you use?

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 06:57 -0600, David Groos wrote: > Hi All, > > Last night LaserJock told me that Sabayon isn't being developed Actually, Federico posted a minor change to upstream Sabayon just a couple of days ago, so the project isn't completely dead. Sabayon is buggy, but I found it coul

Re: 8.04 ltsp +sound

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 10:17 -0500, Ken Campbell wrote: > Hi to all, > > I have been monitoring this list since 4/08 and after many searches on the > posts, cannot find info re: sound. > I have a few teachers who wish to utilize adobe flash as well as other web > sites that use audio. The thin clie

RE: 8.04 ltsp +sound

; > -Original Message- > From: edubuntu-users-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com > [mailto:edubuntu-users-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Richard Doyle > Sent: 2009-01-30 11:52 > To: edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: 8.04 ltsp +sound > > On Fri, 2009-01-30

Re: Help! Would you recommend running ltsp on Ubuntu 8.04 or 8.10?

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:17 -0800, john wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been trying to migrate from 7.04 to 8.04 since last fall. I can > only do it during downtime at our school. I have this week while kids > are on break to try and get the new system in. My problem is that I > can't seem to scale th

Re: Way to auto-login gnome on startup?

On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 17:28 -0600, David Groos wrote: > Hi All, > > Another issue to solve :) > > I don´t have access to the room that will house the server for my > thin-client classroom network. The computer has iLO so I can remotely > restart and even start a computer that is shut down. Howe

Re: Wiki Cleanup

On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 20:39 -0400, Ace Suares wrote: > Hi, > > I started mastering the wiki. The beast is now whimpering at my feet but > can not hold back an occasional growl, exposing its flickering teeth. > > First off, I'd like to draw your attention to the following page: > > https://wiki.

Re: Best way(s) to speed up lab?

On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 07:58 -0400, Harry Sweet wrote: > Hi all; > > Going into the year, I hope to be able to solve workstation lagging problems > once and for all. I'm not sure where > the bottleneck is as no swapping happens, and network thruput looks ok. But > I often get lagging when a ful

HP st5747

Has anybody used/considered using an HP st5747 "streaming client" in an LTSP environment? These are cheaper than other HP thin clients with an Atom processor, and come with 2 GB of RAM. Although clearly not designed for an LTSP environment, I'm wondering whether they might be (ab)used here. I can'

Re: Google Chrome as Local App?

On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 08:52 -0400, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > Hi Nick > > On 07/09/2010 00:25, Nick Fenger wrote: > > I'm wondering if anyone has google chrome working as a local app? If so, > > what configuration worked? NFS instead of NBD? Chrome works much better > > with google doc

Re: Wiping donated computers for recycling question

A hammer is my favorite method, but Darik's Boot And Nuke (www.dban.org) works quite well. On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 12:02 -0500, dbclinton wrote: > This might amuse you: I was told (by an insider) that every Canadian > overseas embassy has one government issue hammer for properly removing > data fro

Re: How to set libreoffice to save as .doc by default?

On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 09:29 -0700, john wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to set .doc to be the default file format for all > libreoffice users on Ubuntu LTSP 10.04 > Under openoffice I used to be able to do this by editing: > > /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/Se

Pessulus

Pessulus, a lockdown tool, is getting some attention: http://tranzistors.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/being-accepted-in-gsoc-and-revamp-of-pessulus/ -Richard -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Creating a school computer lab with edbuntu and ltsp

On 05/21/2012 09:00 AM, Quynh Vu Do wrote: > Hi, > > 2012/5/21 Giacomo Trovato > > > Hi All, > > I'm running Edubuntu 10.01 with 10 thin clients in a school. > I started with 3 GB on the server, but when thin clients surf the > web with Firefox

Re: Need help with monitor resolution Dell Optiplex GX620

On 08/11/2012 05:26 PM, David Trask wrote: > Ok folks...another one... > > I have a bunch of Dell Optiplex GX620's that I want to use in my lab. > They have one video output with a DVI-VGA dongle. I am using a DVI to > VGA adapter to connect to my VGA only ACER G185H monitor which has a > native