[K12OSN] Re: K12LSTP 6 and fl_teachertool

[Petre Scheie]

That's why we have a wiki and a mailing list. :-)

The thing to know, which you may not since I don't think you were on the list yet at the 
time, is that monitor and control were only recently added to fl_teachertool; it used to 
be a real pain to make it work.  And it was only shortly before that that Robert 
Arkiletian wrapped up the rather moribund pieces of teachertool in his fl/tk code and 
turned it into a easily useful tool.  Just a couple years ago, there really wasn't any 
tool for client monitoring.  You just happened to come in at the stage where it's mostly 
setup but not yet entirely automatic.

New users' perspectives are very important to this project, and your point about having 
to guess as to whether everything is already setup is well taken.  With that in mind, 
assuming you have now gotten it all working, I invite you to go to the wiki -- 
http://www.k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/ -- and create a page documenting the problems you ran 
into and how you fixed them.  Hopefully, and likely, this will help someone else later on.

Petre

Mel Wade wrote:
> It would be helpful to know that there are additional steps...  It would 
> be useful to have a readme that was placed on the root desktop or 
> someplace obvious so new people like me wouldn't be guessing...  The 
> instructions on the web site are written from the perspective of a 
> manual install which in K12LTSP is really isn't...
> 
> Mel
> 
> On 11/20/06, *Petre Scheie* <petre at maltzen.net 
> <mailto:petre at maltzen.net>> wrote:
> 
>     fl_teachertool is installed by default in K12LTSP 5, and I assume
>     it's the same in
>     version 6, so you shouldn't have to install anything.  It does work
>     out of the box, but
>     for a couple of features, monitoring and controlling the client
>     machines, there are some
>     additional steps related to password setting that have to be done
>     manually as root.
>     Short of somehow launching an interactive tool, which no one has yet
>     written, at the
>     server's first boot, I can't think of a simple way to automate
>     this.  These manual steps
>     are few and easy and are listed on the fl_teachertool homepage.  If
>     you'd like to write
>     a README.fl_teachertool pointing to those additional steps, perhaps
>     that could be
>     included in the Documentation folder on root's desktop.
> 
>     Petre
> 
>     Mel Wade wrote:
>      > This is all a bit confusing to me.  I installed the
>     fl_teachertool, but
>      > evidently from what you are saying there are a number of undocumented
>      > configuration steps that must me made after
>     installation.  Everything I
>      > heard was this was easy install and use, but I guess there is more.
>      > What else is unwritten?
>      >
>      > Mel
>      >
>      > On 11/19/06, *Eric Harrison* < eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
>     <mailto:eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us>
>      > <mailto:eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
>     <mailto:eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      >     This works on my K12LTSP 6.0 server at work.
>      >
>      >     I'll double check from a clean install tomorrow.
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > --
>      > Mel Wade
>      > "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men
>     do." -
>      > BF Skinner
>      > http://www.melwade.com
>      >
>      >
>      >
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> -- 
> Mel Wade
> "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - 
> BF Skinner
> http://www.melwade.com
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