A small LTSP network setup

[Faisal]

Hi Andrie,

Sorry, i should have provided more details regarding the user. The 
number of workstations is small but the lab will be open to a large 
number of people, potentially tens of users and the staff have never 
used linux before.

On 12/06/12 04:04, Adrie Taniwidjaja wrote:
>
> 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 <http://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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