Thanks Ashish for your response. On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Instead of putting up an SMB server, why not use an SFTP server and an NFS > server ? > > NFS server for anonymous mounts. And SFTP for authenticated mounts. > We need to be able to access the server from windows clients too in the other lab, hence we decided for samba. We ran into either problems or complications while trying to deploy setups like nfs and ldap. And after a lot of testing with this setup we have not observed any problems. Our only problem seems to be with resetting the machines. > > #!/bin/bash > >> echo 'Enter your username: ' > >> read un > >> nautilus smb://192.168.5.82/$un/ > >> > > And instead of having this script, why not initialize the ~guest with a > .desktop file which points to location like: sftp://192.168.5.82/ It is indeed a .desktop file while just runs this script. This is for accessing the private shares of a particular user which is not same as the 'user' account they use to login to the client. Clarification: "user" is the name of account which is common for all machines and is used to login to them and they are supplied a private share on the server if they need. Otherwise, very conveniently, they can just use their pen drives for saving their private files without needing a user name in the lab. > > What we need though is a method by which we can "reset" the 'user' > account's > > home directory at each log in, deleting any traces of the previous user's > > activity and recreates these two icons. I had created the script to > generate > > the icons, it can just be integrated to the solution of this problem. > > What you need is a kiosk setup. There are lots of links about that on the > Internet, including one by jwz[1]. Or a modern (and of course recommended) > way, using pam_namespace[2]. Fedora used this in Fedora Kiosk spin[3], > IIRC. > > References: > [1] http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/kiosk/#auto-reset > [2] > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/sag-pam_namespace.html > [3] http://spins.fedoraproject.org/kiosk/ Thanks for the links. Trying to figure out if I find something for our need. -- Kartik Singhal BTech CSE Student, NIT Calicut http://www.techglider.com _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
