Hi Vu, We use win2k3 for authentication as well via winbind. We used to host student files on a windows server and I believe we used the pam_mount module to mount the shares on a per user basis http://pam-mount.sourceforge.net/
Last year we moved the student files over to Linux and we are happy with the results. Since we're in a mixed environment we can share files with WindowsXP users via samba, with our LTSP clients via NFS and even allow remote access via sftp. I DO wish that /etc/profile would still work as it used to. I am sure there are good reasons for moving to an image based approach (if that's the right way to describe it) but I don't like the fact that it breaks the way *nix has worked for 20 years or so. John On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Vu Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi John and everyone, > Thanks for this post, I am also looking for the solution too. > I am deploying a lab with Edubuntu LTSP in a school, we have W2K3 domain > setup already, I have tried likewise on normal ubuntu, it joins the domain > and everything is ok, but it seems that I don't have luck with Edubuntu > LTSP, I am working on this and next step will be "how to map their home > drive when they log on to the lab?". > Thanks for your help. > Ta. > > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:21 AM, john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I am two days away from the start of school and the problem I >> described before still applies to me. If I can't figure this out I'll >> have to put off my upgrade to 8.04 (or 8.10 perhaps) until December. >> I'd really appreciate any help. >> >> This issue is I want to run some scripts that up until now have been >> called by /etc/profile. This has worked for me up through Edubuntu >> 7.04 The scripts use the system variables $HOME and $USER to map NFS >> shares to users desktops. I understand from oli and others that the >> image generated by 8.04 doesn't reference /etc/profile when users log >> in. >> >> When I tried calling these scripts from >> /etc/X11/Xsession.d per Ollies suggestion the scripts didn't seem to >> run, and in fact after accepting my credentials X just sent me back to >> the login screen, perhaps my syntax was incorrect. But I couldn't >> find any debug information in the logs to trouble shoot the issue. >> Where do I find more debug info? >> >> francois suggestion about putting the lines in >> /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/profile and then updating the image didn't work >> either. >> >> Below is the what I placed in my file called >> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/85-SetupHome: >> >> >> #!/bin/sh >> # >> # SetupHome.sh >> # Clean up from previous session >> # >> # Sweep all files from $HOME and $HOME/Desktop to $HOME/Desktop/ZDrive >> # (ignores directories). >> # Makes Desktop and ZDrive dir entries if needed. >> # >> >> # Name of desktop itself >> dt=$HOME/Desktop >> if [ ! -e $dt ] >> then >> mkdir $dt >> fi >> >> # Name of ZDrive on Desktop >> zd=$dt/ZDrive >> >> # Storage server, and pre-built index of students on the server >> server=/mnt/ALLSTUDENTS >> index=$server/index.students >> >> # Make sure username is all lower case >> user=`echo $USER | tr A-Z a-z` >> >> # Zdrive does not exist, go figure it out >> if [ ! -e $zd ] >> then >> >> # Search file server for this user's directory >> if grep "/$user"'$' $index > /tmp/us$$ >> then >> store=$server/`cat /tmp/us$$` >> else >> # N.B., must fix for y3k compatibility >> store=$server/2*/$user >> fi >> rm -f /tmp/us$$ >> >> # Teachers, for instance, won't have storage on student fileserver >> if [ -e $store ] >> then >> ln -s $store $zd >> else >> # No ZDrive available for this user, just quietly leave >> exit 0 >> fi >> fi >> >> # If the user created files in the home directory, move them down >> # to the Desktop >> for src in "$HOME" "$dt" >> do >> # Walk entries in this dir >> cd $src >> for x in * >> do >> # Only process *files* in this dir >> if [ -f "$x" ] >> then >> # Calculate default destination >> dest="$zd/$x" >> >> # Oops, already there, concatenate an index number >> if [ -e "$dest" ] >> then >> # Start with <foo>_0, and count up until an opening is >> found >> count=0 >> dest2="$zd/$count""_$x" >> while [ -e "$dest2" ] >> do >> count=`expr $count + 1` >> dest2="$zd/$count""_$x" >> done >> cp "$x" "$dest2" && rm -f "$x" >> else >> cp "$x" "$dest" && rm -f "$x" >> fi >> fi >> done >> done >> >> >> exit 0 >> >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Oliver Grawert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > hi, >> > On Do, 2008-08-28 at 08:03 -0700, john wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I was wondering where I can put scripts that I want to run when a user >> >> logs on to a thin client. I used to put them in /etc/profile but that >> >> doesn't seem to work under Hardy. It seems like LDM is somehow >> >> by-passing the stuff I put there. Can someone help me out? >> > ldm is executing /etc/X11/Xsession by default ... (like gdm or kdm do) >> > one option would be to put stuff into /etc/X11/Xsession.d, another is to >> > use the xdg autostart mechanism in /etc/xdg/autostart >> > >> > ciao >> > oli >> > >> > -- >> > edubuntu-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >> > >> > >> >> -- >> edubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
