Hello group, Thanks to all who have given advice and patches for LDM and local devices. My Edubuntu 7.10 server is now serving 6 to 8 clients in a classroom almost perfectly. Auto login works and works quickly with the patched LDM package mentioned in this group and the fix for local devices now shows floppy icons on all client desktops, plus usb sticks work also. Sound works on all clients also. Next issues to tackle are probably a function of my lack of Linux knowledge so any help is appreciated if you can help address the following:
#1) Since I could never get Sabayon to work, I tried to manage profiles and desktops for the clients by first creating a template user. Once all settings were adjusted for this template, I copied the user files (as root) to the /etc/skel directory. I then created my other users, so these settings were copied as defaults for the newly created users. This worked as intended, but how can I keep or refresh these settings? I've seen a suggestion to maybe add a line in .bashrc or somewhere else that would automatically re-copy the default user files on login or logout or something about creating symlinks to the template files, but I'm not sure what the exact method is. Could anyone suggest something? #2) Part of the default profiles I set up in the template involved Firefox. I set the homepage, installed flash player, added some bookmarks and set firefox to use a proxy (I installed WillowNG on the server). I then installed the Firefox add-on "Public Fox" which allows one to lockdown many settings in Firefox with a password. The newly created users all have the settings I created in the template Firefox, but the "Public Fox" add-on doesn't consistently function as it should for each user. I thought it may be a file permissions issue so I tried changing the file permissions of the Public Fox add-on -- the "dlwatch.jar" file inside the .mozilla/firefox folder for a user -- to read/write and executable for the user. That resulted in it working with password protection as it should for one of the users but none of the others. Maybe I was just lucky? Any suggestions on what needs to be done to make all users have my default Firefox settings with properly functioning add-ons? Thanks for any help. And thanks to all who have helped with previous bugs. This list is a fantastic resource. :-) Bob Hill Forestview High School North Carolina ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
