running applications off a server

[Florian Diesch]

"Phyo W. Soe" <ps at michelangelotech.com> wrote:

> I have some questions regarding running applications off a server. The 
> setup is like this. There is a server in a classroom environment. In 
> that classroom, there are PCs for students and each PC has Ubuntu 
> installed. Student PCs are not powerful ones. We would like to run some 
> educational applications off the server rather than installing those 
> applications on each student PC. For some other applications like 
> listening to music and surfing the web, a student PC processes them 
> locally. I want to know if that is possible. I have worked with XDMCP 
> and LTSP but those are not what I want. Both of them rely entirely on a 
> server for processing and storage.

On the student's PCs use
  ssh -X $server $application
to run $application on $server. To avoid needing to enter the password
use key authentication with an empty pass phrase.


> Another question is if we run some applications off a server, we would 
> like to have storage space on the server for each student where they can 
> store their personal files, assignments to be marked, etc., For example, 
> under /home of server, each student will have a folder with their 
> student number and a quota of 1GB. For this, is SAMBA the solution?

If all PC are running Linux NFS is the better solution.


   Florian
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