[K12OSN] skolelinux

[David Trask]

"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
Wednesday, November 10, 2004 at 6:56 PM +0000 wrote:
>Someone mentioned it had ldap/samba and a user management GUI tool
>that worked out of the box.  Is that correct, and can you tell if
>it would likely work to run one of these to create the accounts
>and home directories which you would NFS mount from k12ltsp servers
>configured to authenticate against ldap?  Or - would the ldap server
>configuration be easy to port?

According to Ragnar Wisloff of Norway and SkoleLinux.....that's what many
schools in his area do....they use a SkoleLinux server running Samba/LDAP
and then set up the K12LTSP servers behind it and auth to it.  Works great
according to him.  SkoleLinux also uses LTSP.

David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
(207)923-3100