[K12OSN] Dynamic Launcher
Tom Wolfe
twolfe at sawback.com
Wed Oct 3 15:22:59 UTC 2007
Oh, duh, I see now. I put a script into /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default and
create them there. Default is called just after gdm logs the user into the
machine, but before it actually configures anything (I think). You can use
something like:
ln -s $HOME/.TeacherShare/$USER/My\ Documents $DESKTOP/$USER\'s\ Documents
This is assuming that pam_mount has created a mount at $HOME/.TeacherShare
and that you've defined DESKTOP as something like:
DESKTOP=$HOME/Desktop
And that DESKTOP actually exists, which it doesn't until after someone has
already logged on to their desktop. SO I put this it in front of my link
scripts to take care of brand new users:
if [ ! -d $DESKTOP ]; then
mkdir $DESKTOP
fi
which is bash for if $DESKTOP doesn't exist then create it. I'm a total
Linux and bash hack (actually I'm a hack in the most general sense of the
term) so take it all with a grain of salt.
Regards,
Tom Wolfe
---
Tom Wolfe, IT Specialist twolfe at sawback.com
Stoney Educational Authority tel: (403) 881-2650
Box 238, Morley AB, T0L 1N0 fax: (403) 881-2793
Morley Community School | Chief Jacob Bearspaw School | Ta-otha School
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Kemp, Levi wrote:
> Actually, that's how I came to this. I used pam_mount for the home
> directories, and when I relialized the mount I had setup for a shared
> drive was read only to everyone but root I followed advice from the list
> and used pam_mount for it as well. So now when someone logs in they have
> a G folder and an M folder under there home directory, just as they
> would on a windows box. So even though they can access everything they
> need I wanted to create a launcher for the apps so they wouldn't have to
> go through so many folders to get to them. I may just copy the apps to
> the K12LTSP server to keep from over complicating this though.
>
> Levi Kemp
> Technology Specialist
> Bolivar R-I School District
> 417-328-8943
> lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom Wolfe [mailto:twolfe at sawback.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:07 PM
>> To: Kemp, Levi
>> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Dynamic Launcher
>>
>> Hi Levi, are you asking about how to set up pam_mount? I'd
>> think that pam_mount would be the thing you would use...?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tom Wolfe
>>
>> ---
>> Tom Wolfe, IT Specialist twolfe at sawback.com
>> Stoney Educational Authority tel: (403) 881-2650
>> Box 238, Morley AB, T0L 1N0 fax: (403) 881-2793
>> Morley Community School | Chief Jacob Bearspaw School | Ta-otha School
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Kemp, Levi wrote:
>>
>>> Hate to reply to myself, but I wanted to say that this is
>> going to work. I way overcomplicated this. Of cource it leads
>> me to a new question. How do I create a dynamic launcher? One
>> dependent on the current user logged in. For example
>> /home/BOLIVAR/User/M/math/Sketchpad/"GSP 4.06.exe" I'm going
>> to google for it for a while, but if anyone already knows the
>> answer I'd appreciate it. Sorry for the drama by the way, let
>> myself personal frustrations leak out. Thanks again.
>>>
>>> Levi Kemp
>>> Technology Specialist
>>> Bolivar R-1 Schools
>>> 417-328-8943
>>> lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Kemp, Levi
>>> Sent: Mon 10/1/2007 4:38 PM
>>> To: Support list for open source software in schools.
>>> Subject: RE: [K12OSN]
>>>
>>> So is it going to be best(or easiest) to have each user
>> mount the network drive as they log in, just like there home
>> directory? I don't know why I didn't think of doing this
>> before, I would have to change the links to applications on
>> that server but it seems like it would be the quickest solution.
>>>
>>> Levi Kemp
>>> Technology Specialist
>>> Bolivar R-1 Schools
>>> 417-328-8943
>>> lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Craig White
>>> Sent: Mon 10/1/2007 3:33 PM
>>> To: Support list for open source software in schools.
>>> Subject: RE: [K12OSN]
>>>
>>> if Apps is mounted by root, then root owns the mount and all
>>> files/folders - that's something you can easily confirm from any
>>> workstation.
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 14:39 -0500, Kemp, Levi wrote:
>>>> Apps is mounted on M by root. And as far as security on
>> the windows server all users have read/write access to the
>> main apps folder, sub-folders vary by depending on use. Users
>> are authenticated against a windows AD using winbind, that's
>> the reason their home directories mount correctly. But would
>> it be bad for the LTSP server to mount luke seperately for
>> each user? If that would work, I'd just go that route.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Levi Kemp
>>>> Technology Specialist
>>>> Bolivar R-1 Schools
>>>> 417-328-8943
>>>> lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Craig White
>>>> Sent: Mon 10/1/2007 1:07 PM
>>>> To: Support list for open source software in schools.
>>>> Subject: RE: [K12OSN]
>>>>
>>>> If you look directly on the computer named //LUKE and the
>> folder that
>>>> is shared as 'apps' - it would appear that a typical user doesn't
>>>> have write access. Windows 2000 Server (and Windows 2003
>> server also)
>>>> have a nice tool built-in to test user privileges...right
>> click on a
>>>> folder and choose Properties => Security => Advanced =>
>> User then you
>>>> can locate a user and see his privileges on that folder.
>>>>
>>>> is //luke/apps mounted on /mnt/M by root? If so, then a
>> user wouldn't
>>>> have write access
>>>>
>>>> how are ltsp users authenticated? By local /etc/passwd entry? by
>>>> winbindd from Windows Server?
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 12:49 -0500, Kemp, Levi wrote:
>>>>> Here is my print out from mount:
>>>>>
>>>>> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) proc on /proc
>>>>> type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on
>> /dev/pts type
>>>>> devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
>>>>> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type
>>>>> tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
>>>>> sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
>> //luke/apps
>>>>> on /mnt/M type cifs (rw,mand) //luke/scholastic on
>> /mnt/.Scholastic
>>>>> type cifs (rw,mand) //luke/schsuite on /mnt/.SMS_DATA type cifs
>>>>> (rw,mand) nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw) //br2/vswartz$ on
>>>>> /home/BOLIVAR/vswartz/G type cifs (rw,mand) //br2/shall$ on
>>>>> /home/BOLIVAR/shall/G type cifs (rw,mand)
>> //br2/dpeterson$_br1$ on
>>>>> /home/BOLIVAR/dpeterson/G type cifs (rw,mand)
>> //br2/dshoemaker$_br1$
>>>>> on /home/BOLIVAR/dshoemaker/G type cifs (rw,mand)
>> //br2/lnkemp$ on
>>>>> /home/BOLIVAR/lnkemp/G type cifs (rw,mand)
>>>>>
>>>>> The folder in question is //luke/apps All the home folders, which
>>>>> also reside on a windows server(till I get a NAS), work
>> fine if that is helpful knowledge.
>>>>>
>>>>> Levi Kemp
>>>>> Technology Specialist
>>>>> Bolivar R-1 Schools
>>>>> 417-328-8943
>>>>> lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Craig White
>>>>> Sent: Fri 9/28/2007 1:25 PM
>>>>> To: Support list for open source software in schools.
>>>>> Subject: Re: [K12OSN]
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 12:54 -0500, Kemp, Levi wrote:
>>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>> It's been too long since I've checked the list. I've
>> had a lot of
>>>>>> "fun" working with our LTSP lab. I finally resolved my
>> issue with
>>>>>> scholastic software. Even though I was able to get the older
>>>>>> version working in the lab, it came down to the fact that the
>>>>>> database wasn't stable. According to scholastic, "It is
>>>>>> self-corrupting, two minutes after running the
>> maintenance you WILL
>>>>>> have errors in it again." So we upgraded to the new Enterprise
>>>>>> Edition", which runs on a MySql database, using a flash
>> player as a
>>>>>> browser on the client to access the apps on the server. It uses
>>>>>> Jboss as the appliation server. Funny how almost all of the
>>>>>> software used open source, good side though, wine opens the
>>>>>> executable to run any of the apps and uses native flash player,
>>>>>> java, adobe, etc. So there is one problem solved.
>> Unfortunately I'm
>>>>>> still having a problem with a network drive that the school uses
>>>>>> for both a digital dropbox and a basic application
>> server for apps
>>>>>> like microtype and geometer sketchpad. No on seems to have write
>>>>>> access to the mounted drive and that is the main
>> problem. It seems
>>>>>> like it shouldn't be a hard thing to figure out, but I
>> haven't had
>>>>>> as much time to spend on it as I need to. Where should I start
>>>>>> looking to fix this aside from chmod, because that
>> doesn't seem to
>>>>>> do it. If you need more info let me know, I'm hoping to
>> get it fixed by Monday, otherwise I may be forced into a
>> Microsoft Terminal setup, and that would kill me.
>>>>> ----
>>>>> spare us the drama
>>>>>
>>>>> is the mount read only? on a computer that doesn't have
>> write access
>>>>> to the mounted drive, can you run the command...
>>>>>
>>>>> mount
>>>>>
>>>>> and report back to us?
>>>>>
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