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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 29 Apr 2003 10:15 am, Brough, Tom wrote: > I took 1 weeks leave from TC last week and spent a couple of days with > Howard Lunn @ Churston Grammer. We managed to set up a LTSP (using K12LTSP) > server and a couple of clients, as a proof of concept. We also managed to > get authentication through the exisiting NT PDC (thanks for the tips Simon) It would be *so* great if we could get something like this at Exeter College. They seem to have been experimenting with thin clients a bit, using old hardware, but it's 100% Windows and, TBH, doesn't work particularly well :-( But perhaps if you could document your solution a bit, maybe I could persuade them to at least think about a Linux thin-client solution. Although without someone motivated "on the inside" (to my knowledge), I guess it will still never happen... I'm not sure I agree with your urge to "lock everything down" - they've attempted to do this with the new Win2000 installation at my college and I find it really annoying, not least because they've also set it up to reinstall the programs every time you launch them, thus switching back on all the annoying bits of Office (like that fscking paperclip!) *every* sodding time >:-( Personally, I see no reason why users can't be given free reign over their own personal settings. I think the users would be far more endeared to the system if they are able to personalise their own space. I can see you might want to stop people using porn as their desktop wallpaper, but I guess ought to be dealt with on a individual basis! Perhaps there is a business opportunity here - replace/augment the (generally) rubbish windows systems they already have with a powerful linux server, some VIA Eden/TFT-panel based thin clients and a reasonably low-latency, well designed 100Mbs Ethernet network. And why not sell it on being *better* rather than just cheap - and from my experience, that shouldn't be too difficult! Cheers, Jon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+sZuUeTVvFHAhe5cRAsYTAKCKVLvI39aQETLqzwnsFkAdW5gW2QCfWDfh HgMsF072i+7tHN0C/JOymbg= =n558 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.