Starting off with Edubuntu LTS

[Dave Wilson]

Hi,

I have a project underway which refers to a room of 30 machines, having about 160 users over a weekly period.

I have downoaded 11.10 and used it in live mode successfully and then installed it on the hard disk. It works well, but I am considering the real deployment of this system.

I intend to go for a system based on the use of two LAN cards, but I am not too worried about the hardware but more of the practical details of managing a network of this type and what is needed. I would be grateful for comments and recommendations under the following headings.

(1) I wish to give the users access to both a home folder and access possibly to other Read Only folders I designate. I believe this is controlled by NFS. Is this correct ? Is this already involved ?  Asuming that this is the case what mechanism do the clients use at their desktops to access home folders etc ?

(2) I understand that the Thin Client Manager is used for general client control and calls upon Pessulus to lockdown clients. Is all this provided already or is it necessary to download the manager?

(3) There would appear to be a lot of things going on here that have affects in various places and for example I can see that the creation of a new user would need to have an effect on nfs in terms of designating a new home folder etc. Is there a webmin type of piece of software that handles the integration of these functions so that the addition of a new user automatically causes the changes required?

I would be very grateful for any comments that can point me in the right direction.

Regards


Dave



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