[K12OSN] Creating a repository in a K12LTSP server

[Rob Owens]

I think you mean that the laptops will act as thin
clients....  But if that's not what you meant, and
they're actually Windows machines, you can use winscp
to access the files via ssh.

-Rob

--- Alan Hodson <ahodson at elp.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi colleagues
> 
> For the district's Science Fair I was asked to help
> create a repository
> account where students from each school could login
> into a pre-assigned
> folder using given accounts/pwds, and upload their
> digital
> presentations. The idea is to provide each student
> with an area where
> they can keep their presentations, and on the day of
> the event (held at
> a local university) we take the server, set up 20-30
> laptops connected
> via a couple of switches, and have the students
> download their
> presentations when the judges call their name.
> 
> So far I've created the names of the schools in the
> home directory
> (home/schoolA, schoolB, etc) and using webmin and an
> algorithm for six
> character unique passwords, I've batched-created
> S(chool)Amascot1,
> SAmascot2, SAmascot3 (see
> http://links.episd.org/users2.txt for a
> working Webmin batch file example) and they reside
> in /home/schoolA/SAmascot1,
> /home/SchoolA/SAmascot2... The end result is
> that each participating student has an area in
> her/his school's folder,
> and access it with a unique login and a unique
> password. 
> 
> What I am having a hard time doing is making these
> files be accessible
> via a firefox ftp call:
> ftp://SAmascot1:A1B2C3@I.P.Address needs to take
> that user to her/his folder, w/o access to any other
> schools/folders.
> Each school folder was chmoded (with the sticky bit
> on) to 700, and each
> folder (home account) inside the school's folder is
> chmoded to 770 w/o
> sticky bit.
> 
> This works ok with ssh, but that's it. I can't get
> FTP started (vsftpd
> generates one error after the next) - tried nfs and
> samba shares, w/o
> much success either...
> 
> If it was your setup, how would you configure it?
> Suggestions welcomed!
> cheers
> Alan Hodson
> El Paso ISD,TX
> -=o=-
> 
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