Login from any terminal to personalised desktop

[Mehdi H.]

great docs, I thank you too AL
Tim, This link may help also 
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-adv/ldap.htm


On 9/12/05, Tim Vaughan <talltim at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Al,
> 
> Thanksk for those links, I'll take a look. It looks more complicated
> than I had hoped, but not impossible!
> 
> Tim
> 
> On 9/11/05, Al Gordon <runlevel7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/11/05, Tim Vaughan <talltim at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm investigating running an IT lab on Ubuntu. It'll be used for
> > > internet, email and office tasks for a charity that I work for. I
> > > want the users to be able to sit down at any PC, log in and have all
> > > their personalised settings, files, home directory etc. available
> > > regardless of which computer they use.
> > >
> > > What's the easiest way of doing this? I'm aware of LTSP and am
> > > looking into that as well but it looks pretty complicated. Another
> > > way which I think might work is to have GDM authenticate against an
> > > LDAP server but I've never done this and I don't know how to tell it
> > > to automatically mount a user's home directory.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tim
> >
> > The easiest way? One easy way would be to use something like Safedesk
> > (http://www.safedesksolutions.com/). You pretty much plug the server
> > in, boot the workstations from a floppy, and away you go! I've
> > implemented this for a customer, and it was a breeze. The Safedesk
> > guys seem to be distro-agnostic as well, so if you want Ubuntu on the
> > server, you should be able to do it. Not free, but not overly
> > expensive, either.
> >
> > Another solution would be to run OpenLDAP for authentication, and have
> > a server that serves up home directories for the users via NFS.
> > There's a pretty good guide at
> > http://www.nomis52.net/?section=docs&page=samldap on how to do this
> > fairly quickly and easily, on Debian. It shouldn't be much (if any)
> > different for Ubuntu. They cover doing this for Samba, which is
> > something to consider.
> >
> > Documentation that may be a little closer to what I describe is at
> > http://cs.dixie.edu/ldap/. They cover the NFS side of things, at
> > least. However, I like the one I recommended at nomis52.net<http://nomis52.net>, 
> since it
> > uses phpldapadmin, which is a pretty slick interface.
> >
> > --
> >
> > -- AL --
> >
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Yours Sincerely, Mehdi H.
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