[K12OSN] Using ibooks in conjunction with k12LTSP/debianedu servers
Burke Almquist
balmquist at mindfirestudios.com
Thu Dec 15 13:06:32 UTC 2005
The school I work for is in the process of planning a serious
technology overhaul. Given the recommendations of the independent
consultant the board hired I am preparing to propose getting iBooks
for the older students and the teaching staff, setting up the current
lab of very old PIII dells using K12LTSP (or maybe the debianedu
skolelinux distro??) for the K-4 students, and upgrading our current
authentication/file/mail/web server (current running K12LTSP) to
improve storage space and redundancy, and allow it to rackmount near
the DSL modem so we can use it to proxy our network traffic as well.
For the existing staff winboxes and the lab, samba, NIS, and NFS
shares are/would be sufficient for providing centralized
authentication and file shares. The big hang-up that I'm having right
now is how I will get the laptops to authenticate and use network
storage (so they can be backed up) when they are at school, while
still allowing them to function when the older students and the
teachers take them home. Any bright ideas on how to handle this.
(I'm fairly certain that I can get LDAP or the new directory server
setup, the question is how to handle the issue of different
authentication/storage at different locations)
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