below is a post I made to a suse mailing list. Alot of people on it directed me to ltsp and the use of thin clients. I have little understanding of the mechanics of terminal server but the idea is intriguing and I am not computer illiterate. I can learn when I need to. I just don't know if I need to in this case and I need advice.
specifically, my workstations are minimum Pentium 400(in most cases more) with 128 mb ram nics(some with bootroms some without) all have harddrives, cdroms and floppies
The switchover to Linux, Suse 9.1 specifically, is a done deal. The only question is how.
We are a K-12 school with multiple homerooms in most grades. What I have now is a RedHat >Linux server spoofing an NT domain for authentication purposes and dishing out home directories to users as >Well as other shares through Samba.
Oh yeah, I forgot, the workstations are currently running the evil empire's Windows 98 or >Windows 2000.
I am planning a setup as follows. 1 top end server running Suse 9.1 and Suse 9.1 >workstations.I am not going with thin clients as frankly I don't know how to do that.
I do want to keep the authentication happening through the server. And I want the users' home directories to reside on the server, along with whatever shares I wish to farm out. I know >how to do all that using a linux server(with samba) for Windows clients. I have no idea how to do this for >an all linux setup.
For Windows, Samba handled both jobs, authentication and sharing. I am assuming that in a >pure Linux environment there is a better way. I just need help finding that way
The number of users makes it very undesirable to have to set up those users on each >workstation. I use one user for each of the homerooms(all students in Homeroom A have the same login name) from >Kindergarten to grade 6. 2 rooms of each for a total of 14 users. From grades 7 to 12 I have almost 200 >users who I currently give individual user logins so that they can store work/files assignments. I feel I >need to retain this type of setup for the type of work I do.
Can anyone give me some help/guidelines?
point me to a manual or webpage and I will do the work. I just don't know the right questions >to ask to help me find the info on my own
your time and effort will be much appreciated
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