Re: [PLUG] Configuring Ubuntu Desktop for public users?

2018-06-11 Thread Ben Koenig
I did some searching online, and you may run into issues with a Guest user on vanilla Mint. If MDM ( the display manager used in Mint), then you can easily replace it with LightDM. I know for a fact LightDM has a Guest feature and it works reasonably well. After that, all you need to do is

Re: [PLUG] : Re: Configuring Ubuntu Desktop for public users?

2018-06-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 11 Jun 2018, Mike C. wrote: After I set it up, I turned it over to someone who was able to administer it. There's no one currently here to administer such a configuration and there's only 2 desktops that will mostly be used for email and some web browsing. Fairly light usage as most

[PLUG] : Re: Configuring Ubuntu Desktop for public users?

2018-06-11 Thread Mike C.
"If the linuxK-12 project is still alive it would be a good resource for you. At the Riverdale HS the network used diskless workstation clients and a central server. How that was configured could be a guide for you." I'm familiar with Linux Terminal Server Project. About 10 years ago I setup a

Re: [PLUG] Configuring Ubuntu Desktop for public users?

2018-06-11 Thread Ben Koenig
Free Geek uses various temp users internally for their workstations. It has been a while since I worked there, but they also had an OEM user, which is temporary for use when building the computers. I'm pretty sure that MDM, the display manager in Mint has a Guest mode, you may want to look into

Re: [PLUG] Configuring Ubuntu Desktop for public users?

2018-06-11 Thread Carl Karsten
I looked into this for my local library, about 7 years ago. I would start with Rich's suggestion because a) he is much more current than me b) he is likely to be of help when you need it That said, there are lots of projects that do this kind of thing. I am sure there was one that was meant for

Re: [PLUG] Configuring Ubuntu Desktop for public users?

2018-06-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 11 Jun 2018, Mike C. wrote: Does anyone have any experience with configuring Ubuntu desktop for a school, library or non-profit for many public users? Mike, If the linuxK-12 project is still alive it would be a good resource for you. At the Riverdale HS the network used diskless

[PLUG] Configuring Ubuntu Desktop for public users?

2018-06-11 Thread Mike C.
Does anyone have any experience with configuring Ubuntu desktop for a school, library or non-profit for many public users? I've very limited experience and knowledge with user administration. Ideally, I'd like to not have to create 100 individual accounts and I'd prefer to create 1 account that

Re: [PLUG] How do I talk to it

2018-06-11 Thread Larry Brigman
from a wine/dos prompt -> dir g:? On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 9:28 PM Chuck Hast wrote: > Yes that is what g: is aimed at. But for some reason the program does not > see > it. > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:20 PM, Larry Brigman > wrote: > > > More likely to sdb. > > > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at

[PLUG] Simple & Inexpensive Proxy Server

2018-06-11 Thread Mike C.
> > Just using your current setup you can get some content filtering using DNS. Opendns provides a free service to do that. https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/ I don't know if that will help with the piracy usage though. I forgot about OpenDNS until after I sent the email. I