problems with 9.04 that seems to disapper with 8.04 and am I able to run applications on thin client locally on 8.04

[tlang80 at gmail.com]

Hello everyone,

I hope this is the right list for this.  I'm an 8th grade teacher and have
been trying to get an Ubuntu server with thin clients set up in my classroom
for the last 2 to 3 weeks.  It's to the point that technical goofs and
problems are driving me crazy :)

First, I think this might be a huge issue.  On 9.04 with the default
installation with 2 ethernet cards, everyone works fine EXCEPT that when
thin clients in firefox begin to watch something in flash the sound works
for about the first minute and then cuts off. The sound usually goes back to
the server.  I have updated the latest flash according the the Wiki, along
with updating the pulse audio package, and countless other things.  No
matter what I do, (even playing a movie in another player not based in
flash) the sound will just stop from the thin client after 1 to 3 minutes of
playing.  I've tried everything!!!  I even tried running firefox locally.
The only thing that worked was installing Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and the sound
works flawlessly.

BUT with that, it looks like I'm not able to run applications locally on the
8.04 version, and I will have 6 or 7 students watching tutorial flash videos
all with sound.  This is a big strain on the server and was really hoping to
be able to run applications locally.  Am I able to run applications locally
on the thin client with version 8.04?

Also, with 9.04 on laptops the thin client image would be backwards (all the
letter would be reversed) but with 8.04 I don't have that problems.  It
certainly seems like 8.04 has all the bugs out of it, but it's lacking being
able to run applications locally on the thin client?

I've looked all over google and just can't believe that no one else is
having the problem with the sound or the reverse image on laptops as thin
clients with 9.04.  Is 9.10 fixing these problems?

Also, now that I have all my student user date in the Users and Groups, is
there anyway I can backup this (user name and password info) so that if I
need to reinstall my system I don't have to retype all the username and
password info again?

Thanks so much,

Tim
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