Re: How to map network drive ??

2008-01-21 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then i tried to use smbfsfirst, i made /media/x and put this line to fstab : //citserver/shared smbfs rw 0 0 That wouldn't work actually, so I suspect you did: //citserver/shared /media/x smbfs rw 0 0 I would suggest you use cifs

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox, OpenOffice pixmap crash issue update?

2008-01-21 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:22:51 +, Gavin McCullagh wrote I've filed a bug against OpenOffice. Please feel free to contribute extra info that seems pertinent. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=85321 CMC has written at least a partial fix to this issue in a patch to

RE: offlines installation of packages

2008-01-21 Thread Ismael Farfán Estrada
tanks, I'll look there « La adolescencia es el periodo de tu vida en el que piensas que la masturbación es algo transitorio. »~ Hombre resigando. Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:56:36 +0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: offlines

Re: locking down the desktop

2008-01-21 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Ismael Farfán Estrada wrote: Hi, I'm thinking on doing the same, I plan to change the owner of the desktop folder to root and put it to read only chown root /home/*/Desktop chmod 111 /home/*/Desktop (111 readonly?) 111 is execute only. 444 is read-only. You'll

Re: locking down the desktop

2008-01-21 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:58:57AM -0500, Barb Tabor wrote: I am having trouble finding out to prevent students from saving to the desktop (using Gutsy). Any suggestions? If you don't want a desktop maybe run a window manager that doesn't support a desktop. I use IceWM often for a simple

dist-upgrade of chroot

2008-01-21 Thread Bill Moseley
This is on Edubuntu Gutsy. I wanted to enable vnc[1], but my chroot only had a cdrom for sources.list. So I copied the sources.list file from the server to the chroot, and then ran a dist-upgrade. Then I got a few errors: Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) In

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox, OpenOffice pixmap crash issue update?

2008-01-21 Thread Jim Kronebusch
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:57:07 +, Gavin McCullagh wrote Hi, On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:22:51 +, Gavin McCullagh wrote I've filed a bug against OpenOffice. Please feel free to contribute extra info that seems pertinent. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=85321

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox, OpenOffice pixmap crash issue update?

2008-01-21 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Jim Kronebusch wrote: Awesome news Gavin. I ran into the problem mostly when printing large graphics, hopefully this might fix that as well. Well, it's not clear yet how much this fix will help, but some is probably better than none. We'll have to see if the patch

Re: locking down the desktop

2008-01-21 Thread Richard Doyle
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 08:01 -0800, btabor wrote: All students log in the same (see the same desktop). Then they can navigate to their network folders. Why did you set things up this way? You wouldn't have overly cluttered desktops if you'd used the default configuration, with separate desktops

RE: locking down the desktop

2008-01-21 Thread Ismael Farfán Estrada
« La adolescencia es el periodo de tu vida en el que piensas que la masturbación es algo transitorio. »~ Hombre resigando. If ~user/Desktop is owned by root and ~user is owned by user, user can delete the Desktop folder and recreate it with their own ownership. This is because user has

Re: locking down the desktop

2008-01-21 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Ismael Farfán Estrada wrote: Whell, my windows users hardly know what owner means, so it may work for me If it is no possible to lock the desktop... It isn't strictly, but as you say, just revoking write permissions on the Desktop/ folder and setting firefox not to

RE: locking down the desktop

2008-01-21 Thread Ismael Farfán Estrada
« La adolescencia es el periodo de tu vida en el que piensas que la masturbación es algo transitorio. »~ Hombre resigando. They're not not doing it to annoy you, they're doing it because that's the firefox default. It's probably sufficient to just change firefox's default saving location

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Firefox, OpenOffice pixmap crash issue update?

2008-01-21 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Gavin McCullagh wrote: Well, it's not clear yet how much this fix will help, but some is probably better than none. We'll have to see if the patch will backport. The patch is a single line addition and it's easy to see how to apply it. I'm trying to rebuild the