Urgent help request! was Re: how do you get something to run when a user logs on?
Vu Nguyen
linuxnuke at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 02:29:55 BST 2008
Hi guys, it's me again.
Just wonder with LTSP have you used Likewise to integrate with AD?
I can join the LTSP server to the domain but can not login with AD user.
Ta.
Jerry
Here are some references
http://www.likewisesoftware.com/
http://www.zimbio.com/Ubuntu+Linux/articles/96/Join+Ubuntu+8+04+Windows+Domain
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Vu Nguyen <linuxnuke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the info, John.
> It is very helpful for a newbie. It is good when I am not alone with my
> idea.
> Thanks and I'll get back with the results.
> Vu Nguyen
> Powerthink Mebourne
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:59 AM, john <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Vu,
>>
>> We use win2k3 for authentication as well via winbind. We used to host
>> student files on a windows server and I believe we used the pam_mount
>> module to mount the shares on a per user basis
>> http://pam-mount.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> Last year we moved the student files over to Linux and we are happy
>> with the results. Since we're in a mixed environment we can share
>> files with WindowsXP users via samba, with our LTSP clients via NFS
>> and even allow remote access via sftp.
>>
>> I DO wish that /etc/profile would still work as it used to. I am sure
>> there are good reasons for moving to an image based approach (if
>> that's the right way to describe it) but I don't like the fact that it
>> breaks the way *nix has worked for 20 years or so.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Vu Nguyen <linuxnuke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi John and everyone,
>> > Thanks for this post, I am also looking for the solution too.
>> > I am deploying a lab with Edubuntu LTSP in a school, we have W2K3 domain
>> > setup already, I have tried likewise on normal ubuntu, it joins the
>> domain
>> > and everything is ok, but it seems that I don't have luck with Edubuntu
>> > LTSP, I am working on this and next step will be "how to map their home
>> > drive when they log on to the lab?".
>> > Thanks for your help.
>> > Ta.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:21 AM, john <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I am two days away from the start of school and the problem I
>> >> described before still applies to me. If I can't figure this out I'll
>> >> have to put off my upgrade to 8.04 (or 8.10 perhaps) until December.
>> >> I'd really appreciate any help.
>> >>
>> >> This issue is I want to run some scripts that up until now have been
>> >> called by /etc/profile. This has worked for me up through Edubuntu
>> >> 7.04 The scripts use the system variables $HOME and $USER to map NFS
>> >> shares to users desktops. I understand from oli and others that the
>> >> image generated by 8.04 doesn't reference /etc/profile when users log
>> >> in.
>> >>
>> >> When I tried calling these scripts from
>> >> /etc/X11/Xsession.d per Ollies suggestion the scripts didn't seem to
>> >> run, and in fact after accepting my credentials X just sent me back to
>> >> the login screen, perhaps my syntax was incorrect. But I couldn't
>> >> find any debug information in the logs to trouble shoot the issue.
>> >> Where do I find more debug info?
>> >>
>> >> francois suggestion about putting the lines in
>> >> /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/profile and then updating the image didn't work
>> >> either.
>> >>
>> >> Below is the what I placed in my file called
>> >> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/85-SetupHome:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> #!/bin/sh
>> >> #
>> >> # SetupHome.sh
>> >> # Clean up from previous session
>> >> #
>> >> # Sweep all files from $HOME and $HOME/Desktop to $HOME/Desktop/ZDrive
>> >> # (ignores directories).
>> >> # Makes Desktop and ZDrive dir entries if needed.
>> >> #
>> >>
>> >> # Name of desktop itself
>> >> dt=$HOME/Desktop
>> >> if [ ! -e $dt ]
>> >> then
>> >> mkdir $dt
>> >> fi
>> >>
>> >> # Name of ZDrive on Desktop
>> >> zd=$dt/ZDrive
>> >>
>> >> # Storage server, and pre-built index of students on the server
>> >> server=/mnt/ALLSTUDENTS
>> >> index=$server/index.students
>> >>
>> >> # Make sure username is all lower case
>> >> user=`echo $USER | tr A-Z a-z`
>> >>
>> >> # Zdrive does not exist, go figure it out
>> >> if [ ! -e $zd ]
>> >> then
>> >>
>> >> # Search file server for this user's directory
>> >> if grep "/$user"'$' $index > /tmp/us$$
>> >> then
>> >> store=$server/`cat /tmp/us$$`
>> >> else
>> >> # N.B., must fix for y3k compatibility
>> >> store=$server/2*/$user
>> >> fi
>> >> rm -f /tmp/us$$
>> >>
>> >> # Teachers, for instance, won't have storage on student fileserver
>> >> if [ -e $store ]
>> >> then
>> >> ln -s $store $zd
>> >> else
>> >> # No ZDrive available for this user, just quietly leave
>> >> exit 0
>> >> fi
>> >> fi
>> >>
>> >> # If the user created files in the home directory, move them down
>> >> # to the Desktop
>> >> for src in "$HOME" "$dt"
>> >> do
>> >> # Walk entries in this dir
>> >> cd $src
>> >> for x in *
>> >> do
>> >> # Only process *files* in this dir
>> >> if [ -f "$x" ]
>> >> then
>> >> # Calculate default destination
>> >> dest="$zd/$x"
>> >>
>> >> # Oops, already there, concatenate an index number
>> >> if [ -e "$dest" ]
>> >> then
>> >> # Start with <foo>_0, and count up until an opening is
>> >> found
>> >> count=0
>> >> dest2="$zd/$count""_$x"
>> >> while [ -e "$dest2" ]
>> >> do
>> >> count=`expr $count + 1`
>> >> dest2="$zd/$count""_$x"
>> >> done
>> >> cp "$x" "$dest2" && rm -f "$x"
>> >> else
>> >> cp "$x" "$dest" && rm -f "$x"
>> >> fi
>> >> fi
>> >> done
>> >> done
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> exit 0
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> > hi,
>> >> > On Do, 2008-08-28 at 08:03 -0700, john wrote:
>> >> >> Hi all,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I was wondering where I can put scripts that I want to run when a
>> user
>> >> >> logs on to a thin client. I used to put them in /etc/profile but
>> that
>> >> >> doesn't seem to work under Hardy. It seems like LDM is somehow
>> >> >> by-passing the stuff I put there. Can someone help me out?
>> >> > ldm is executing /etc/X11/Xsession by default ... (like gdm or kdm
>> do)
>> >> > one option would be to put stuff into /etc/X11/Xsession.d, another is
>> to
>> >> > use the xdg autostart mechanism in /etc/xdg/autostart
>> >> >
>> >> > ciao
>> >> > oli
>> >> >
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