Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Restricting Internet Access

2013-07-04 Thread Peter D Knight
If you don't succeed in 3 weeks, perhaps you could change permissions on the browser and only allow members of a certain group execute it. That will give you longer to find a better solution. If you are controlling a whole class of pupils, just put a comment in /etc/resolv.conf and deny access

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Restricting Internet Access

2013-07-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 04/07/2013 02:46 πμ, ο/η David Burleigh έγραψε: I am in the process of setting up a computer lab with Ubuntu 12.04, LTSP, and a number of thin clients. All is well, except that I cannot figure out how to deny internet access to particular users while allowing internet access to others.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] nbd boot fails after update to 13.04 (raring)

2013-07-04 Thread Rüdiger Kupper
Heureka, I resolved the problem. My own question eventually led me there, (and reading the f*ing manual helped, as usually ;-) ). I would not have managed if I hadn't asked the question at this list. Thanks! First observation: -- Yes, as Peter confirmed, the entries in

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Restricting Internet Access

2013-07-04 Thread Sprachschule Eilert
David, I'm doing this with iptables for quite some years now, but it includes an application for the teacher to set/release the lock for a class as well as some scripts to call iptables etc. And the application has to know - which user is in the class - which terminal the user is logged in

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Restricting Internet Access

2013-07-04 Thread David Burleigh
Thank you, Rolf. I have tried a few settings with iptables, but I must be doing something wrong because it has the effect of blocking the desktop environment from being set up on the client after login. I'm sure it's because I really don't understand iptables properly. Perhaps its a matter of

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Restricting Internet Access

2013-07-04 Thread Jakob Unterwurzacher
On 04.07.2013 14:46, David Burleigh wrote: Thank you, Rolf. I have tried a few settings with iptables, but I must be doing something wrong because it has the effect of blocking the desktop environment from being set up on the client after login. I'm sure it's because I really don't understand

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Restricting Internet Access

2013-07-04 Thread David Burleigh
That worked! Thank you so much! On Thursday, July 04, 2013 08:06:16 PM Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote: On 04.07.2013 14:46, David Burleigh wrote: Thank you, Rolf. I have tried a few settings with iptables, but I must be doing something wrong because it has the effect of blocking the desktop

[Ltsp-discuss] Kubuntu-based LTSP computer lab

2013-07-04 Thread David Burleigh
I set up my prototype computer lab based on Ubuntu 12.04, and it's working fine, but I prefer the KDE desktop. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has tried it. My main concern is the overhead of Nepomuk Akonadi, which I suppose I could just disable. Also, how is 13.04 compared to 12.04 as

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Restricting Internet Access

2013-07-04 Thread Lance Levsen
We do it with squid and LDAP lookups. We have a nonprod attribute that if true allows squid access out. Otherwise squid denies external connections. Alkis Georgopoulos alk...@gmail.com wrote: Στις 04/07/2013 02:46 πμ, ο/η David Burleigh έγραψε: I am in the process of setting up a computer lab

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Kubuntu-based LTSP computer lab

2013-07-04 Thread Todd O'Bryan
Nepomuk and plasma-desktop are driving me crazy on my home machine. They randomly steal 100% of one of my CPUs and make my fan work overtime. As a result, I've switched to Xfce. There's a bit of a learning curve, but it's not Unity and it's really snappy. I'm thinking of making the switch at