Please Help. Edubuntu LTS setup for school.

Hello everyone, I am fairly new to Ubuntu and linux especially when it comes to configuring Ubuntu as a server. The fact that it has to be a terminal server has made things even more difficult for me.

I am looking for some good help. Has anyone on this forum done this before? I need this server to allow 20 students to PXE boot edubuntu, login with their user credentials and access their files etc. There will be approx 14 pc's. That is the most basic part of what this network will be doing. Then they want online access to files and for students to be able to login remotely their credentials and have a remote session for homework.

I've tried this many times already and not been able to put all the pieces together.... I almost got a test laptop to PXE boot once.

This has to be finished by Monday the 9th or March latest (3-9-09).

vital-cs said: Hello everyone, I am fairly new to Ubuntu and linux especially when it comes to configuring Ubuntu as a server. The fact that it has to be a terminal server has made things even more difficult for me.

I am looking for some good help. Has anyone on this forum done this before? I need this server to allow 20 students to PXE boot edubuntu, login with their user credentials and access their files etc. There will be approx 14 pc's. That is the most basic part of what this network will be doing. Then they want online access to files and for students to be able to login remotely their credentials and have a remote session for homework.

I've tried this many times already and not been able to put all the pieces together.... I almost got a test laptop to PXE boot once.

This has to be finished by Monday the 9th or March latest (3-9-09).

I would suggest signing up and email both these lists and seeing if anyone has tried it:

http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-us-ga

I'm sure someone on the ALE list has tried it.

Ok, thanks! I'm actually making some progress, now I am working on the DHCP aspect... that is, successfully configuring DHCP communication from server to client so that PXE Boot will actually achieve boot. I don't really understand it yet.

Again, thanks for your advice.

Hello,

The Wikipedia entry on Edubuntu "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edubuntu" and related articles mention Macedonia education department having successfully set up 160,000 thin clients to Edubuntu terminal servers. You would be sure to find someone from that project who can help you.

Also perhaps lok at the Blog "http://stephen-walder.blogspot.com/", "integrating open source into a primary school" ... They are obviously well advanced in their school since they are worrying about getting sound from Flash player working on the thin clients and similar "niceties".

Cheers Colin

There is a Thin Client How-To at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThinClientHowto and also a FAQ that may have some solutions for you at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuFAQ.

What looks to be more thorough though is the Edubuntu Handbook at http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/edubuntu/handbook/C/.