remote access? was Re: [Ltsp] Trafton Academy: pilot K12LTSP installation

[John Hebert]

Michael,

Thanks for the excellent posts on your progress.

To follow up on your call for volunteers for an
"install and configure" session for the P3 box, when?
Also, can we give that server a name, so that we can
refer to it easily?

Also, as BRLUG members are scattered through time and
space, I think we would get more volunteers if we
could put the P3 box on the internet to allow remote
access for configuration.

The reason I propose this is because I don't think
installing LTSP is a problem. Configuration and
tweaking are where I think we need help. I feel
confident that we can secure the box via ssh remote
logins to provide adequate protection. This would
require 2 network cards in it, as you have detailed
before in our F2F talks.

Once the configurations are done, and we get the
explanations for the configuration changes from the
authors, we can copy those configuration files and
store them for future installs. Or, we could image the
machine, but I'll bet that simply storing the
configuration changes would suffice, and take much
less disk space. In fact, I'll bet we could script the
configuration changes, and simply run that script on a
freshly installed box to configure it as desired.

Whaddya think?

John


--- Michael Murray <mmurray at i-55.com> wrote:

> Trafton Adademy, a small not-for-profit K-8 school
> in Hammond started 
> this term with a modest K12LTSP system. Sabrina
> Duhe, Trafton System 
> Administrator, has had some experience with Unix,
> but this is her first 
> Linux experience.
> 
> Server: IBM P300GL 400MHz PII desktop computer;
> 256MB RAM, 6.4GB 
> storage.
> Clients: four IBM P300GL 166MHz P1 thin clients;
> 32MB RAM, no drives. 
> 15" monitors
> System is currently networked with a 10BaseT hub,
> but we just secured a 
> 24-port 10BaseT switch with two 100BaseT uplink
> ports.
> 
> We had intended to use an available dual processor
> 400MHz PII IBM 
> Netfinity server, but encountered issues and
> abandoned that server for 
> the rather lame one previously configured as a test
> machine. This 
> somewhat pitiful package is nevertheless providing
> internet access for 
> a total of five users.
> 
> We have a dual-processor PIII 500MHz server promised
> by CACRC in Baton 
> Rouge awaiting configuration. We'll issue a call for
> volunteers to 
> attend an install-and-configure session at CACRC as
> quickly as it can 
> be arranged. I'll bring a working server and client
> for testing and 
> demonstration. Free installation CDs for all who
> attend.
> 
> Configuring a terminal server for optimum
> performance is an ongoing 
> process, and there will be plenty to be done on site
> at Trafton. I 
> entertain hopes for hands-on help from members who
> live or work in the 
> Hammond area.
> 
> Please subscribe to the LTSP mailing list at 
> http://www.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/ltsp_brlug.net
> to participate.
> 
> Michael Murray
> 
> 
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