A small LTSP network setup

[Adrie Taniwidjaja]

I think for this small size of instalation using Edubuntu default user
manager is more than enough.
Why make the instalation become more complicating with LDAP stuff ?

On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 03:51 +0100, Faisal wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am thinking of setting up a small LTSP network consisting of 10-15
> workstations for a local charity. I am coming from the windows
> terminal services / Citrix world and i am very familiar with that side
> of things and my Linux experience is average at best.
> 
> So far I have installed these flavours of an LTSP implementation: The
> debianedu based Skolelinux -  www.slx.no and Edubuntu 12.04 in a
> VMWare virtual server and i have been mighty impressed with the ease
> of install of Edubuntu in particular and i think i will go with it. I
> have been able to boot up a couple of thin clients simultaneously for
> testing purposes and all seemed to run fine in my small lan at home. I
> loved some of the built in tools such as Epostes for ease of
> management.
> 
> In terms of hardware, i think we are going for donated/cheap used fat
> clients and have the local apps option for LibreOffice, Firefox etc to
> ease the load on the server. I am also thinking of having an NFS share
> for the /home partition on a separate grey box(if that further helps
> ease the load of the server and makes it run better).
> 
> As for the server, there are good deals going on where i am for small
> office servers such as the HP Proliant ML110 G7 with Intel Xeon
> E3-1220 / 3.1 GHz(quad core) and 8 GB of DDR3 1333 mhz RAM(upgradable
> to 16) and 7200 rpm HD disc with dual Gigabit NICs. Would something
> like this be suitable for powering the 10-15 workstations or will that
> be pushing it?
> 
> The charity do not have tech savvy staff and i would like a
> centralized user account setup with openldap. But ideally, have a web
> gui front end for user account creations and password resets. I am
> looking into tools such as Gosa2 - https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/
> and Easy LDAP management found here:
> http://www.ldap-account-manager.org/ . I have not been successful so
> far in setting up these tools, but i am still working on it. I may ask
> someone in my local LUG for help with this part if i struggle. Does
> anyone know similar tools?
> 
> Apologies for asking too many questions as i am still researching and
> don't have a clear plan yet. Would appreciate you advice and guidance
> to any tool or resource that would help me get answers.
> 
> Regards
> Faisal
> 


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