> I was hoping to use the netbooks as thin clients so we could boot them off > the network and everyone logged into their own home directory and all > files would be stored on the server. This would allow the teacher to use > iTalc. In doing a little reading I see that is not going to be possible, > you cannot pxe boot over a wireless connection. > I have a standard debian lenny KDE install on our netbooks. Then I made some changes to integrate them with the ldap [1]. Now kids can log in as themselves, accessing their normal thin client desktop and home. This is with our skolelinux network, so you might have to adjust for your edubuntu ldap. Maybe someone else can hack it for you.
I'm really happy that I discovered this, because its much better than my previous solution, which was to write a little script prompting for username and password and then mounting the home folder via sshfs. It wasn't good because it was hard to fully lock down the netbooks (running UNR), and if a kid saved a file in the network mount folder without remembering to first mount the share, then the subsequent sshfs mount would fail. [1]I followed the section Tjener-Anbindung of this howto: http://wiki.skolelinux.de/PhilippHuebner/customTerminalserverLenny good luck nigel -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
