Hello & how should I set this up?

[Jesse Griffin]

Hello Kym,

You have a few options, but I would recommend that you take a look at using
OpenLDAP (http://www.openldap.org/) in conjunction with NFS, which I assume
you are already using on your fileserver.  You can set it up so that a
student logs in and their home directory is automatically mounted via NFS to
the fileserver.  That way there are no files stored on the local machines
and every student has their own account through the ldap directory.

I'll say that this is not extremely simple to do, but the extra work up
front will make it a solid long term solution.


Jesse
tummy.com Linux Consulting

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Kym Z <kym at riverland.net.au> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I've just joined this group, I am the bursar at a tiny Christian primary
> school in country South Australia.
> We have made the move to using Edubuntu on the student computers over the
> last 2 years.  We are running Ubuntu server 9.10 on a file server and
> Edubuntu 10.04LTS on the student machines.   Also Clear OS for Proxy
> Server...
> Unfortunately, at the moment, the student computers are set to start
> automatically with a local, generic account.  I would rather if the students
> had to "log-in" to their own account, with details stored on the server, in
> order to start the computer (so that all their files and settings will be
> available on any computer).  However, I don't know how to set this up - is
> there any documentation available about how to do this?  I don't think I
> want to set them up as LTSP since the server probably can't handle that, and
> some of the computers can also boot XP as an option...
> Can anyone point me in the right direction please?
>
> Thanks,
> Kym.
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