Hmm wonderful, so I'm assuming skolelinux/debian-edu do this with smbldap. If we have LDAP working for authentication already, this would work right? Kind Regards, David Van Assche <div> On 10/30/07, Oliver Grawert <<a href="mailto:ogra@ubuntu.com">ogra@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> hi, Am Dienstag, den 30.10.2007, 23:11 +0900 schrieb nigel barker: > David Van Assche wrote: > > > > Anyway I would love to know a better way to make workstation thin > > clients using LTSP instead... any ideas? > > This is possible in Debian-edu/Skolelinux. They call it "diskless > workstations" and I've been using it for over  a year with great > success. right, there is a document (debian specific though) /usr/share/doc/ltsp-server/workstation that explains how to set up a locally running kiosk with a complete desktop to .... for ubuntu you would have to change chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 tasksel install desktop to chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get install ubuntu-desktop (note that the copy_dirs and rw_dirs variables are not used anymore in gutsy) then you need to make sure the home dir gets mounted from the server and you need have some kind of network auth mechanism the client can attach to. since we're still missing the network auth mechanism (the server team is working hard to get something standardized going for hardy which we will use in edubuntu then) we dont have fat clients implemented yet... so your mileage may vary if you build such a setup yourself but its surely possible to get going. ciao         oli -- edubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div>