Doug, I am speechless, but will attempt to overcome that. Thank you for doing this. Merry Christmas. I will open this bad boy up and see if I can make heads or tails. Thank you again. Very nice of you indeed.
Mike On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 7:55:37 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > I would like to create a web app / interface to manipulate and maintain my > server's dhcpd.conf file. > *Background in Short:* > I was asked a few years back to build a wifi network for approximately 500 > users with unlimited devices. With no money (barely any money). Done. > The only requirement/restriction is we use MAC address filtering. So I > have a server, serving dhcp leases. I have to manually input each MAC > address with a hostname and group. This is a terrible pain. Especially for > the amount of users I have with unlimited devices. Christmas time is > horrible because they all come in wanting new devices registered. > I do have, at least, a web form through google which updates an excel > sheet in google docs, which I then access, copy the MAC address, then using > my server gui, add the new MAC to the dhcpd.conf file and restart the > server. > *What I've done & What my hope is:* > I have started the Django tutorial. I have dabbled with python. I am an > enthusiast in training. I have very little to no experience. I can learn. > Fast. I am just running into branches of "things to learn" and it's > starting to be a little overwhelming. > I hope to do the lion's share of creating a web app that will do the > following: > > 1. Register a user using sqlite3 database I have already created for all > users. > 2. Authenticate a user > 3. Provide a display of registered devices for user to either delete or > not delete > 4. Provide a form to register a new device(s) > 5. submit request, append to dhcpd.conf & restart dhcp server > > There is minutia I am not including in this *cry for help*. > > This app would help me gain some distance from this monumental task. > > Am I in the right place? Is there some special soul out there who wants to > help a fella out? > > Many thanks to all who have read this. > > Mike Roberts > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/491ef36b-b061-4a1c-943f-f3d129cfb4ad%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

