[K12OSN] Talking to school about K12LTSP

[Doug Simpson]

Robert Arkiletian wrote:

>
>
> On 8/18/06, *Henry Hartley* <henryhartley at westat.com 
> <mailto:henryhartley at westat.com>> wrote:
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>     Robert Arkiletian wrote:
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>         Not sure how well k12ltsp would work in a wireless situation.
>         Maybe someone else can answer that.  
>
>     I'm more looking forward to when we have a wired network.  No, I
>     don't think wireless is fast enough for LTSP.
>
>         But as long as you don't have /home mounted nfs. You can
>         simply issue the command
>         #ifdown eth1
>         No internet.
>         #ifup eth1
>         Internet is back.
>         It's that easy. I do it all the time to prevent kids from
>         getting distracted while I am lecturing. You can put it in a
>         cron job or do it manually, whatever.
>
>     Is that a per client setting?  Or for the entire server?  We want
>     to control this at the client level, or at least at the group level.
>
>
> It's for  the entire server. All clients and the server.
>
> For the client or group level I'd imagine someone on the list could 
> write a little script to do what you want. Solution might be changing 
> persmission on an integral file which allows internet access. I'd like 
> to see such a script myself.

I do it with scripts that can be either CRON'd or manually run by a 
user, etc. But the clients I do this on are winders clients logging into 
a samba domain. . .

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