Hello & how should I set this up?

[mlb at imparisystems.com]

I completely agree with Jesse. 

In addition, they've done some great
work with the Ubuntu 11.04 Server to make openLDAP installation and
configuration during installation MUCH easier than it was when I installed
it last under 9.04 or something like that. 

Matt Burkhardt


mlb at imparisystems.com 

http://www.imparisystems.com 

On Fri, 3 Jun 2011
13:17:44 -0600, Jesse Griffin  wrote:  Hello Kym, 
 You have a few options,
but I would recommend that you take a look at using OpenLDAP
(http://www.openldap.org/ [1]) in conjunction with NFS, which I assume you
are already using on your fileserver. Â You can set it up so that a student
logs in and their home directory is automatically mounted via NFS to the
fileserver. Â 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 [2] Linux
Consulting

 On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Kym Z  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. Â 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. Â 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). Â
However, I don't know how to set this up - is there any documentation
available about how to do this? Â 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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