terminalserver functions

[Reiner Schmid]

Hello,
next week I will start to use the edubuntu-terminalserver in my 
classroom. I also installed a terminalserver for the classroom of my 
wife. I like the software very much (language support, educational 
software, the newest version of openoffice, the possibility to update 
...), but it is still very diffycult or uncomfortable to install and to 
use the serverfunctions.

I work with two networkcards, the installation for the cards is not very 
clear for a new linux user, but the most teachers have only small 
experiences in linux or not at all.

The ltsp-login-manager is awful and also to small on the most monitors. 
A pupil is not able to recognize the signs which it had typed in. Would 
be there a update in the next time before 6.04? I think this is urgent!

To add users is very uncomfortable. After I have added 7 users at one 
time, I noticed the service crashed. No users or their home folders were 
added, I had to start it again.

Teachers also need cronjobs (example: automatically shut down the server 
at a special time). There must be a simple solution for it, no work in a 
terminal to edit it. (Perhaps webmin?)

Profiles: I installed sabayon to create profiles. But it is not adapted 
to support german language and some functions didn´t work in such way I 
prefer.

The clients-starting-up-process is very slow. Many daemons/services in 
the /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/init.d folder start. Are they all necessary? So I 
removed the ntpd-Daemon to win some seconds.

I hope you think about your idea to press all the software for the 
terminalserver on one cd! Why not two cds or one dvd with all the 
necessary server-funktions?

Thanks for your work,
Reiner Schmid

P.S.: A nice network game for a classroom server is imaze. It is easy to 
install it on edubuntu-pcs.