Creating a school computer lab with edbuntu and ltsp

[David Groos]

Here's an outline of how I finally got AD working on my set up:
http://groosd.blogspot.com/2011/09/making-lucid-authenticate-via-district.htmlIt's
hard to read some of the font since I 'upgraded' to this newer style
blogspot layout.

Good luck,
David

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Jeremy Schubert <jschubert at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Thank you all for your advice.
>
> I'm thinking in terms of running this as a computer lab for the whole
> school, not just per classroom.  So I might have five to ten groups running
> though the lab all in one day.
>
> I was thinking of 30 clients, 15 pointing to one lstp server and 15
> pointing to another (to improve performance).  And I'd like to redirect the
> users home drives to another file server on the system to make it easier to
> swap out ltsp servers if necessary.  I'd also like to be able to control
> user profiles so that when  they're client boots up they only have the
> option of logging in with Gnome 3 (for example) and any changes they make
> to the desktops and profiles (other than saving data to their home
> directories which would be redirected on another file server) would be
> reset on logging out.  And although they wouldn't be allowed to make
> permanent changes, I'd like the ability to make changes on they fly.  And
> I'd like the ability to effect changes at a granular level, May the grade 5
> class could could have access to these programs and icons while the grade 7
> class has access to a different subset. and I'd like to be able to carry
> out all of administration/tasks centrally.
>
> Reviewing what I said, I guess that I asking for a linux/edbuntu solution
> comparable to a Windows Server 2003 domain set up using Active Directory
> and Group Policies.  So maybe I'm in the wrong listserve here?  Can anyone
> please suggest and alternative resources?
>
> Thanks, Jeremy Schubert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Giacomo Trovato" <giacomo.trovato at gmail.com>
> To: "Richard Doyle" <rdoyle at islandnetworks.com>
> Cc: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 10:45:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Creating a school computer lab with edbuntu and ltsp
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have not configured locall applications since my thin clients are
> very poor: Geode 500 Mhz, 256 Mb RAM without disk.
> They are Alix3d3 (http://pcengines.ch/alix3d3.htm).
>
> 2012/5/21 Richard Doyle <rdoyle at islandnetworks.com>:
> > On 05/21/2012 09:00 AM, Quynh Vu Do wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> 2012/5/21 Giacomo Trovato <giacomo.trovato at gmail.com
> >> <mailto:giacomo.trovato at gmail.com>>
> >>
> >>     Hi All,
> >>
> >>     I'm running Edubuntu 10.01 with 10 thin clients in a school.
> >>     I started with 3 GB on the server, but when thin clients surf the
> >>     web with Firefox (and Flash) they sometimes hanged.
> >>
> >>
> >> I had the same problem. It was solved by setting Firefox to run as
> >> localapps on the thin client instaed of on the LTSP server :
> >>
> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTSPLocalAppSetup
> >>
> >> It makes a night and day difference with the same amount of RAM on the
> >> LTSP server : no more slowdowns and freezes when not running localapps.
> >> My config is 4 GB RAM, with a Quad-Core, running a network of 12-14 thin
> >> clients (512 Mb RAM).
> >
> > And video is much smoother in web browsers run as local apps.
> >
> > Our classroom has a quadcore server with 4 GB RAM, 18 thin clients with
> > 2GB apiece, running google chrome as a local app.
> >
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