[nflug] edubuntu

[eric]

great thank you.


oh, there's a new product out...
http://www.bootz.us/fixall.html
 :) happy friday


David J. Andruczyk wrote:

>--- eric <eric at bootz.us> wrote:
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>>Hi just installed edubuntu 10, nice install, and am just trying to
>>integrate them into my network.
>>What I would like to do:
>>1. is have the computers on all the time turning off and on at
>>certain
>>times of the week.
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>Turning off can be done via cron, turning on requires bios support
>(most bios's can do this)
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>>2. if the computer gets turned off completely (power failure) anyone
>>can
>>turn the computer on and it will go directly to the desktop a sort of
>>password less logon.
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>It's possible to do autologon,  though highly not recommended to have
>that. (how would a teacher logon in that case?).  Better to just a
>passwordless minimalistic account (with limited ability to write to his
>own files in his homedir to prevent users from changing default
>settings).
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>>3. if all of the above works out then I also want samba shares that
>>students log into to timeout after an hour if there is no usage.
>>If anyone can point me in the right directin that would be very cool,
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>Have the clients mount the samba shares with an automounter (Autofs),
>have the samba server setup with the "deadtime" option per share to
>cause it to close the connection when there is no activity after a
>period of time.
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>
>-- David J. Andruczyk
>
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