Hi! It's great to see that so many libraries are using LTSP now. When I first installed it in 2000 I don't think there were too many others using it.
Rod, have you read the article I wrote on using LTSP in libraries (http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/ltsp.html)? It's a little old (I keep meaning to write a new one) but it has instructions on how to lock down IceWM and get rid of its unnecessary features, and also how to use a script to restart the browser if someone closes it. I don't know if it's true with newer browsers, but I found that with the Netscape 4.x series, if you didn't use a window manager and configured the browser window to be 1024x768, when the browser opened toolbarless popup windows, there was no way to get rid of them. Of course, this probably wouldn't be a problem in your catalog. You can also use squid to prevent patrons from getting to the internet. You just make a text file with a list of permitted websites (one per line), then add these lines to your squid.conf: acl restricted_clients ident ws1 ws2 (and so forth, I used ident because I wanted to limit 2 workstations to certain reference websites; you could identify them by IP address instead, I think you would have to use 'dstdomain' instead of 'ident'.) acl catalog dstdom_regex "/etc/squid/your-list-of-catalog-urls" (if you are using IP's instead of urls change that to 'acl catalog dst "/etc/squid/your-list-of-catalog-IPs") http_access allow restricted_clients catalog Then restart squid, and it should work. Good luck! Cindy -- Cindy Murdock Network Administrator Meadville Public Library/Crawford County Federated Library System http://meadvillelibrary.org & http://ccfls.org ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
