Fwd: Edubuntu Feisty

[David Trask]

Sure!  It's easy!  You need to set up a Samba/LDAP server!  Matt Oquist
and I (mostly Matt) have made it easy with the smbldap-installer.  The
installer makes it a piece of cake to get a server up and running that can
be your central point of authentication for Windows and Linux.  The linux
server becomes the PDC (you can also set up BDC's as well) and the ldap
side of things takes care of the Linux and OS X network.  I've been using
it for a few years now.  I used to have to do it by hand (the
configuration and installation), but Matt took my "how-to" and turned it
into a really awesome script that just asks a few questions and sets it up
for you!  You can find more info here:

http://www.vcsvikings.org/docuwiki/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/

A version of this (with a pretty GUI) will soon be part of Edubuntu...but
this will get you going for now.

Let us know if you have questions along the way!  :-)

One more note....as the the Gnome/KDE thing....if you install both, the
kids can choose the one they want....although...I will say that in a
teaching situation....the teacher will want them all on the same one so
they have a common frame of reference....so at the beginning of
class....it needs to be stated...."Load up Gnome.....or choose the KDE
session"


"Andrew Bell" <buionjo at gmail.com> writes:
>David, it sounds like you have a good setup there. I am planning to do
>something similar in my school next year. I would like to have an equal
>numbers of KDE, Gnome, Windows and OSX computers in the lab, then focus
>on teaching concepts and principles, it would then be up to the students
>to work out how to apply it to whatever system they are sitting in front
>of that particular day. One of the problems I need to consider is how to
>store all their settings and files so they are accessible from any
>system. How have you set up the roaming profiles to work between
>different systems, without one system changing the others settings? 




David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Director
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100