August 2002 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Appalled at primary teacher's gift
by Tim Pizey 16 Aug '02

16 Aug '02

Hi, A friend of mine has just recieved a HP laptop from Estelle. It is completely unconfigured, with a standard windows XP install. No teacher specific applications. No education specific ISP setup. No nothing. Surely we could do better in an afternoon. The machine was from Oxford LEA under a programme called 'Laptops for Schools'. I think something should be done. Any ideas? Apparently over 60 percent of teachers at the school have a laptop delivered at different times, but with no customisation at all, so they don't get used. I think this is awful. cheers tim pizey

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Squid and broadband
by s-clarob＠st-aidans.cumbria.sch.uk 15 Aug '02

15 Aug '02

What is the output of /var/log/squid/cache.log What is the output of /var/log/squid/access.log What message is returned to the browser? look at the download section at http://edutecx.st-aidans.cumbria.sch.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloa… That's the file we used in some schools we set up. partent 80 3130??? 80 is not a normal proxy port? it's the standard http port. Regards Robin. At 20:50 14/08/02 +0100, you wrote: >Hi Rob > >I've tried the following > >cache_peer proxy.embc.org.uk parent 80 3130 no-query >acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 >never_direct allow all > >Which were suggested by embc - the proxy organisation but squid still >won't run. Have you got a simple squid.conf file I can look at? >Or any other suggestions? > >Thanks for your help. > >Dave > >On 01 Aug, <s-clarob(a)st-aidans.cumbria.sch.uk> wrote: > > Depending on how you broadband works, you may be forced to always use > > the parent cache. > > > Try these lines (obviously change the proxy tcp port to the correct one) > > > cache_peer the.peer.ip.address 8080 0 noquery > > > > acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 never_direct allow all > > > > See http://squid.visolve.com/squid24s1/glossary.htm#always_direct > > > Good luck, > > > Robin.

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SuSE EMail Server II
by Rob Keeling 10 Aug '02

10 Aug '02

Thanks for the replies I received to my last post, it turned out to be a combination of dirty cd, dodgy CD-ROM drive and overheating problems! I have now installed everything, and trying to get to grips with the way it works. I need to try to integrate it with a NT 4 domain database if at all possible, using NT passwords would be a VERY good move. I am trying to move our system slowly but surely to Linux rather than MS, at the moment Outlook express is giving us major problems with pop3. What I want to do is, configure Outlook for IMAP access, (as an added bonus it looks like LDAP will do our system wide address book). Allow web mail from anywhere, and add a IMAP tool to our new Linux machines (once I have built them!). I was assuming that I could replace the Unix password file with winbind, giving me common users and passwords, this looks like a big assumption? Can I configure something to populate the LDAP server with all our user names etc, and then use something else to use NT password authentication? Thanks for any help anyone can give! I am getting a bit out of my depth................ Rob Keeling Network Manager Queen Elizabeth`s Grammar School Ashbourne

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Squid and broadband
by Dave Williams 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

Hi everyone We have been using a dialup connection and squid successfully as a proxy for the past few months. However, we have just been connected to broadband (18 months later than promised) and I now need to change the squid.conf file to connect to the new service. Broadband is provided through embc (East Midlands Broadband Consortium) and we have a router on site, 10.0.12.1, which machines can use as a gateway to access the embc proxy. We have ip numbers for the embc dns and proxy but I cannot get machines on our network to connect through the squid box. When an individual client connects directly through the gateway to the embc proxy there are no login screens and internet access (filtered) is immediately available. I assume there must be some way of enabling the squid box to do the same and then proxy the internet to the rest of the machines on the network. Can anyone help? Dave Williams

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