[K12OSN] skolelinux

[Dennis Daniels]

With K12ltsp 4.1 you've not been able to get NFS to authenticate home 
directories?
<snip>
  It also NFS mounts
the users homedirs. I tried K12LTSP 4.1, but could not make the ldap
authentication work. Has FC2 introduced something new there? </>

We've been trying to get NFS to play nice with xdmcp... and mounted home 
dirs. via NFS but only marginal success with kdm and absolute failure 
with gdm and xdm... Can someone else confirm that fc2 is working well 
with nfs/xdmcp?

thanks!
Dennis

Trond Mæhlum wrote:
> tor, 11.11.2004 kl. 04.15 skrev 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.
> 
> 
> I suspect that Ragnar is talking about my setup. I like using Skolelinux
> as a fileserver for the ldap/samba thing. It also has some other nice
> services which "work out of the box", like dns, backup, proxy with
> squidguard and other things.
> 
> The thing I dislike about Skolelinux is that it's based on Debian Woody
> = old software like KDE 2.2.2... It's also a timeconsuming job to
> integrate it into a network which isn't the default 192.168.0. net. It
> also comes without Xvnc configured as opposed to K12LTSP.
> 
> Enter K12LTSP. I use K12LTSP 4.0.1 for all my LTSP servers, The all use
> LDAP authentication against the Skolelinux server. It also NFS mounts
> the users homedirs. I tried K12LTSP 4.1, but could not make the ldap
> authentication work. Has FC2 introduced something new there? 
> 
> In fact Ragnar Wisloff did most of the job configuring our Skolelinux
> servers, so he should know that our setup works well.
> 
> I have a Skolelinux server with all the services and 5 LTSP servers
> based on K12LTSP using Skolelinux as ldap/samba/home/dns/proxy/backup...
> 
> Regards
> 
> Trond Mæhlum
> 
> 
> 
>>David N. Trask
>>Technology Teacher/Coordinator
>>Vassalboro Community School
>>dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
>>(207)923-3100
>>
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