[K12OSN] Fresh Install on Dell PowerEdge T110

[Alan Hodson]

Thanks Barry for your comments. Over the years you've seen my queries 
and an occasional how-to post. I've done _many_ webmin batch installs, 
and I've never had to change a password setting - in fact the batch has 
student ID# as passwords, and that does not fit the criteria of 
encrypted password. I'll try it anyhow. I wasn't getting invalid 
password entries. I was being able to enter the info, and after 
rebooting, they did not appear as login names - very strange!

Regarding the load times, yes, I am using el cheapo unmanaged switch (I 
am a non-Wi$con$in educator), but your NBD/swap entry peaked my 
curiosity... Fedora 10 loaded both gnbd-utils and nbd itself, but I am 
at a loss on how to setup any of the Thin Clients for this possible 
major-time-saving approach. Any more specific suggestions/help?

As usual, thanks - You are THE MAN!

Barry R Cisna wrote:
> Howdy Alan,
> 
> Hey. In regards to the Webmin batch import for your previous users.
> 
> 1) The very last radio button "Passwords are already encrypted?" HAS to
> be changed from the default of No to YES.
> # If you don't change this you will end up with invalid password at
> login.
> 
> 2) The server has to be restarted for users to be able to log in. 
> # I know this don't make sense ,but the voice of experience talking
> here...:)
> Next time give these two items a go after doing the batch import and no
> more hand entering previous users. I know your pain! :-).
> 
> In regards to the clients loading so slowly. Are you using just the
> cheapo unmanaged switches feeding the TC's? If you are using a managed
> switch it could be the STP snafoo that causes stuff like this
> (sometimes). Although if the TC's perform A-OK in the desktop this
> doesn't make sense either.
> Have you tried adding a NBD / swap to just one of the TC's in the
> lts.conf file to see if bootup would speed up possibly?
> 
> Barry
> 
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