[K12OSN] LTSP Client Configuration Program?

[Huck]

http://www.webmin.com/

and it works...
I dl'd it last week onto k12ltsp 4.0 and it worked fine...
of course you must have installed some other things for some of the
modules to work..
but that will be self-evident when you attempt to utilize those modules.

--Huck

-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Dennis Daniels
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 4:39 PM
To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] LTSP Client Configuration Program?


Hello Immanuel!
Where is this webmin module you're talking about?! I'm aware of only 
one, lightly discussed here with the caveat that it doesn't work.
http://www.k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/index.php/Software%3AWebmin

Do you have other info!? If yes, please share!
thanks
Dennis

Immanuel Derks wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 00:23, Joe Guenther wrote:
> 
> Hmm, this functionality we already have (and much better i.e. without 
> messing up all your conf files) with the webmin LTSP module. In fact 
> the symbiont is a bad copy of the same module and using webmin (1.21) 
> as a back-end. Sorry to be sceptical, but just to add some revamped 
> icons to an already existing opensource application is not convincing 
> enough of any added value. Releasing an existing opensource project 
> again as opensource raises some eyebrows as well...
> 
> Besides it's not compatible to LTSP 4.x..
> 
> Immanuel
> 
> 
> 
>>I just installed the symbiont GUI on a test server at home and thought

>>the whole thing looked great ... UNTIL I looked at the dhcpd.conf and 
>>lts.conf files it left behind.  It did NOT leave the functional files 
>>alone ... it rewrote them with the few changes I made ... resulting in

>>totally dysfunctional conf files.  with just a few tweaks to the 
>>configuration, it only wrote the changes ... not the stuff that did 
>>not change.  Conclusion ... either use only this, or use the text 
>>files as they come from Jim McQuillan, but you would not want to use 
>>both methods of editing the conf files.
>>
>>It is a bit like samba-swat that also re-writes your files, it at 
>>least leaves a functional all inclusive version of the configuration.

>>That said ... Symbiont workstation manager at least left a nice backup

>>of the files.
>>
>>I personally use Kate to do my editing.  You can load the various 
>>files and leave them displayed on the screen.  Next time you open Kate

>>those files are all nicely there.  I can make changes in dhcpd.conf  
>>and then flip to the terminal window, also in Kate and do the 
>>/sbin/service dhcpd restart  and all the changes take effect.  This 
>>also allows one to make lots of comment lines in the conf files.... 
>>which workstation this is ... location ... all the wonderful examples 
>>in the files as they come out of the box.
>>
>>So I was impressed with the nice visual gui, but the way they write to

>>the files is totally unusable in my opinion.
>>
>>greetings
>>Joe Guenther
>>= = = = = = = = = = = = = =
>>LANtech - Didsbury
>>Chinook's Edge School Div.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com]On
>>Behalf Of Dennis Daniels
>>Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 9:04 PM
>>To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
>>Subject: Re: [K12OSN] LTSP Client Configuration Program?
>>
>>
>>It does look pretty good: 
>>http://www.thesymbiont.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=vi
>>ew_pag
>>e&PAGE_id=29&MMN_position=64:45:61
>>
>>looks more robust than:
>>http://www.gnomepro.com/tsclient/
>>
>>Anyone else using symbiont? Anyone else using something similar? best,
>>dennis
>>
>>Matthew Ross wrote:
>>
>>>I'm curious of anybody has either heard of something like this, or if

>>>they're currently working on this kind of a project?
>>>
>>>An interface which will allow an administrator to have easier control

>>>over the various client options. Text based, Web based or in a 
>>>graphical X environment, It really doesn't matter, this tool would 
>>>allow changes made to machines, especially as it comes to the 
>>>lts.conf file. Sound card configuration, custom Video card settings, 
>>>all on a per-client (more specifically a per-MAC address) basis.
>>>
>>>If a project like this is in the works, could somebody point me 
>>>toward it? If there is no such project, I just might be ambitious 
>>>enough (even though my coding skills don't quite meet the challenge) 
>>>to make a Webmin module.
>>>
>>>--Matt
>>>
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