[ubuntu-uk] RE- Changing default settings for all users

[Duncan Collins]

Rob,

I am usually a silent member of this list.
However this is very close to what I am trying to do,
to set up a work client for an otherwise Windows network.
I have had some success in using Sabayon to do some of what you mention

Install Sabayon
System Administration - User profile editor
Add a profile
Create Icons, change settings etc
Set profile for all users.
I'm not sure this includes proxy server settings ( I could also do with
knowing how to do this for all users )
Unfortunately I did some of this and it worked, I then went back in and it
kept crashing when saving changes.

Also with the other issue I'm struggling with I managed to corrupt my
sudoers file on my test virtual machine, so have had to go back to a backup
and am still redoing things

The other issue is I want to map windows network drives when a user logs in,
probably by putting a script in /etc/profile.d

Drives are for example \\server\users\username
or \\server\data
so I need to run comands like

sudo mount -t cifs -o user=collind,domain=windowsdomain,password=password
//server/data gdrive.

The problem is the sudo, as the windows domain user will not be a sudoer
Hence my unsuccesful attemps so far at enabling /bin/mount for all users in
the sudoers file.

Been trying with
user ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/mount, /bin/umount

I am using 8.04.1 and Likewise

I see you posted this a while back, so hopefully you have had some success
now, I'de be interested in hearing your findings
and other words of wisdom anybody else has.

Regards

Duncan

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Hi folks,

I'm in the process of trying to roll out Ubuntu across one of our
offices as a replacement to Windows XP.  At the moment on Windows XP we
have a standard desktop which includes desktop background, Internet
Explorer proxy settings and other tweaks.

Now rather than have the hassle of setting up each individual users
desktop when they first login I was hoping it would be possible to set a
default desktop configuration for each new user.

I just wondered if it was possible?

What I was looking at doing was setting up Ubuntu to authenticate
against the Windows 2003 Server (so I don't have to create a bunch of
individual accounts too) and have their home directories mount to their
user directory on the server.

I vaguely remember reading something about default settings in /etc/skel
but after looking in that directory I see there are just some default
files for bash.  Is it possible to put a set of default files in to
/etc/skel and is there any specific configuration files I need?

Ta,

Rob
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