+++ vivek khurana [2007-05-25 01:36:02]:
>
> --- Arup Raychaudhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Sir,
> > I am a novice linux user. In our library, users
> > download many files
> > over the Internet. Clients are in a LAN and running
> > on linux. I am
> > interested to know how to save all downloaded files
> > to a particular
> > PC, whitout allowing saving of files at each local
> > Client.
>
> Yes, do the following
>
> 1) Identify a directory on one machine which wll save
> al the data.
> 2) Share that directory from samba (with guest
> writable permissions)
> 3) On all local clients, mount that samba partition on
> boot (with read write access)
Why Samba when it's a pure linux network? it's easier to use NFS.
> 4) Edit your browser settings to download all the
> files on the mounted folder i.e the mount point of
> shared directory.
Even better would to run the terminals in kiosk mode with read only
local partition. So you don't have to worry about admin tasks on any of them
Kingsly
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