On 8 February 2010 04:33, Martin Schulte <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, the network in a few month looks like this: 132 PC and laptops mostly > with double boot windowsXP/linux. We will use tjener as mainserver,. On > clients we will use a normal "debian", which will be tie to tjener (because > of many customisations, and a lot of troubles using skolelinux on our > Laptops). I will setup up the clients using clonezilla Server Edition (on a > second server). I tried a lot in the last weeks, and i think it will be work > very well. Our infrastructure is good enough for these. > After this, we will point our attention to the new project, as written > before. A firm offers a leasing bit for netbooks. The sixth formers pay some > money every year (3 years long) and get an netbook. At the time we work on a > good concept to integrate these netbooks into education. On the Netbooks > will run Debian (maybe Ubuntu Netbook Remix?). I can setup them easily using > SystemImager.org . They will use an local account, but they should have an > access to their home-directories on tjener (should be mounted after login, > but i think this will bring some troubles because of the mode > (read/write-rights)). In the first year, we will try out some things using > 50 till 100 netbooks, if everything goes well, we will have nearly 300 > Netbooks up to 2012. At the time, we think about how to resize the WLAN > infrastructure - hardware and software. From the softwareside the questions > will be: Do we need an second DHCP-server , do we need an fileserver and how > to integrate him into the existing network, because he should share the home > directories. And at least, we need an second webserver, because there are > different applications for the intranet. > On clients all pupils should have an root account (or maybe sth. like an > jradmin), because its their own netbook, the they should use it at home and > so on and so on... for a while we had this kind of set-up with Ubuntu netbooks. Following some difficulties with samba, I ended up mounting tjener homes via sshfs. I placed a shortcut on the desktop which ran a script asking for username and pw and doing the mount. Since these were shared laptops, I created a regular user and applied some edubuntu lockdown techniques (pessulus and something else) before cloning. Two problems occurred - 1. kids managed to customise things despite the locking down and 2. if someone saved a file into the tjener mount point directory, but had forgotten to mount, then no-one could mount their home on that laptop anymore. You might get what you want from autofs, ( I couldn't understand it enough, so if you do, please share!) As far as infrastructure scaling goes, I can't help. We are a very small school. cheers nigel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
