On Thursday, July 12, 2012 09:05:23 AM Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Ah, ok. Some more questions came into my mind meanwhile (would be also interesting to hear how other people in the audience solve those). Since you use openSUSE Edu I suppose the teachers use iTALC to control the individual workstations, right? Ie monitoring what's on the screen, shutting the computers off if needed etc. Do the children have individual user accounts with their private home or do you use some shared user per workstation? How do you handle printer accounting? I heard that this isn't that straight forward with cups.
Yes we use iTALC :) We setup an LDAP server in every school, and put the account there. We use NFS server also to save the files if the teacher ask them to submit the work. All the users (11.3 or 11.4) can print to the share network printer. We set it up using YaST and the printers are either Samsung ML-2851ND or Xerox Phaser 3435 connect directly to the network with ethernet. We have one hardware problem though. Some of the schools use AIO Dell PC without VGA out or displayPort and the workaround for this is to use displaylink usb to vga interface. However it doesn't fully support linux yet. It only can show 1 screen. So if the teacher wants to use LCD Projector they only can see the screen either on the projection screen or in the monitor but not both [1] [1] https://plus.google.com/photos/110554031246799489445/albums/5543853263477202... regards, -- medwinz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org