Mobile computer lab

[nigel barker]

> I was hoping to use the netbooks as thin clients so we could boot them off
> the network and everyone logged into their own home directory and all
> files would be stored on the server. This would allow the teacher to use
> iTalc. In doing a little reading I see that is not going to be possible,
> you cannot pxe boot over a wireless connection.
>
I have a standard debian lenny KDE install on our netbooks. Then I made
some changes to integrate them with the ldap [1]. Now kids can log in as
themselves, accessing their normal thin client desktop and home. This is
with our skolelinux network, so you might have to adjust for your edubuntu
ldap. Maybe someone else can hack it for you.

I'm really happy that I discovered this, because its much better than my
previous solution, which was to write a little script prompting for
username and password and then mounting the home folder via sshfs. It
wasn't good because it was hard to fully lock down the netbooks (running
UNR), and if a kid saved a file in the network mount folder without
remembering to first mount the share, then the subsequent sshfs mount
would fail.

[1]I followed the section Tjener-Anbindung of this howto:
http://wiki.skolelinux.de/PhilippHuebner/customTerminalserverLenny

good luck
nigel