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Thu Jun 12 23:09:36 BST 2008

smoothing out the "friendship" between thin clients and an Ubuntu
server, I chose what I believe is the more manageable approach, considering my situation as described in the above paragraph: identical "fat desktops" using wireless NICs. So far, the" only problem" I have is the old issue that after a reboot, I have to re-type the "password" to reintroduce the wireless NICs to our Linksys WRT54Gs. Then do a "switch user" so the students can log-in and do what their teachers would have planned for the day.

Any script to minimize this tedious routine would be much appreciated. I am glad to have stumbled on how to do a timed-shutdown :-)

With a script that can do most of the above, I guess I can  to do an auto-log in as "admin," set the wireless to connect, then the script would switch for the student's log-in, then shut-down at the end of the day???

So far, the "repeatable" success rate is far from okay when I try setting the wireless NICs to roaming, then type in the password after the prompt; enabled MAC filtering thrown in. I noticed that the "repeat success" seems to slide down when I have more than one wireless AP/Router within range. ??

Thank you for your time.

Mon

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<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:24pt"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">From: Gavin McCullagh &lt;gmccullagh at gmail.com&gt; To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 5:26:31 PM Subject: Re: Desktop Install - Central Login ?? You can store /home/ on a server with NFS, then mount that directory as /home on each desktop.&nbsp; This will mean that user's files and settings are available from any computer. Gavin = = = =&gt; Hello, Gavin. I have a slightly similar "intention" that your reply appears to be helping me in the right direction :-) I just recently plunged into 40 very fat clients for our new lab in school:-) Kindly correct me if I am wrong, but can I
 make a list of users - students with their respective log-in names and password - on one desktop, then copy this configuration file (I don't exactly know how to refer to this), and then copy this on all the desktops so all the students can use any of the computers with the same username and password - without me doing this manually on all the units? The desktops are all identical. Oh, and anyone is most welcome to ease our transition to a fully Ubuntusized and OOo computer lab. I just got my copy of Ubuntu Unleashed 3 weeks ago, but I don't have the time to really dig into its pages. I normally zero in on a chapter or a few pages for a "quick reference" fix.&nbsp; A small school like ours? Am a one-man IT department, so it takes a lot of efforts not to spread myself too thinly, yet I have to address all the IT concerns - hardware-software-user's "could you please show me how?" package that goes with my job. I recently "recruited" a
 working-for-the-school-student as an assistant, slowly training him for now, on the more "mundane" IT-related tasks. From my corner of the globe, I still could not find a real supplier for "thin and net appliance." And with what I have read from this listgroup about the issues on
smoothing out the "friendship" between thin clients and an Ubuntu
server, I chose what I believe is the more manageable approach, considering my situation as described in the above paragraph: identical "fat desktops" using wireless NICs. So far, the" only problem" I have is the old issue that after a reboot, I have to re-type the "password" to reintroduce the wireless NICs to our Linksys WRT54Gs. Then do a "switch user" so the students can log-in and do what their teachers would have planned for the day. Any script to minimize this tedious routine would be much appreciated. I am glad to have stumbled on how to do a timed-shutdown :-) With a script that can do most of the above, I guess I can&nbsp; to do an auto-log in as "admin," set the wireless to connect, then the script would switch for the student's log-in, then shut-down at the end of the day??? So far, the "repeatable" success rate is far from okay when I try setting the wireless NICs to roaming, then type in the password after the prompt;
 enabled MAC filtering thrown in. I noticed that the "repeat success" seems to slide down when I have more than one wireless AP/Router within range. ?? Thank you for your time. Mon </div></div></div>

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