RE: [SLE] using SuSE as workstations in an academic environment
What level of academia? What's your current authentication architecture? (I implemented a couple of linux machines for a 5th grade classroom a few years back, using Debian. Been a while, though.) My recent, relevant experience is that SuSE authentication against the Active Directory LDAP structure is very, very slow -- like 20-40 seconds from submission of the username and password to actual authentication onto the machine.
-----Original Message----- From: Super Code Monkey [mailto:super_code_monkey@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 1:32 PM To: SLE Subject: [SLE] using SuSE as workstations in an academic environment
I throw this out wondering if anyone within the academic universe has had experience using Linux, as apposed to windows or macs, on workstations in labs or for public use. In an attempt to better educated students and make them more versatile, I am thinking about implementing some SuSE 9.3 computers as workstations for students to use. Currently the students only use XP, Microsoft Office, and until a few months ago, were only given IE as the browser. They now have options to choose between IE, FireFox, and Opera; I would like to give them the opportunity to also select from different OS's.
Besides the initial support for 'how do you do this in Linux', what other problems or concerns, if any, have others faced? Have you had success implementing such or maybe why you chose not to?
Thanks for any feedback.
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This would be used in a university library for the computer lab. Currently, the campus IT department is 99% windows; they use widows for everything, including that active directory. --- "Marlier, Ian" <Ian.Marlier@studentuniverse.com> wrote:
What level of academia? What's your current authentication architecture?
(I implemented a couple of linux machines for a 5th grade classroom a few years back, using Debian. Been a while, though.)
My recent, relevant experience is that SuSE authentication against the Active Directory LDAP structure is very, very slow -- like 20-40 seconds from submission of the username and password to actual authentication onto the machine.
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On Monday 12 September 2005 19:29, Super Code Monkey wrote:
This would be used in a university library for the computer lab. Currently, the campus IT department is 99% windows; they use widows for everything, including that active directory.
--- "Marlier, Ian" <Ian.Marlier@studentuniverse.com>
We currently run SuSE 9.3 over thin clients linked to Linux servers. Most of our apps, as a computer science department most of our apps are maths and science orientated. Basically we offer firefox and openoffice but our researchers tend to use latex. Undergrads are given a brief unix intro. and simple commandline exercises. They were setup with mwm and many graduated setting up KDE themselves. Now their basic configuration uses icewm. A colleague of mind suggests that you take a look at winbind in Samba for authentication purposes. Eddie
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