Topic: school-server with sme ?

[fpausp]

Hi All,

I like to setup a network for a school with an sme-server (sme7) and winxp-clients (~30), my problem is i have 300 user-accounts and winxp should reset the user-profile after login or logout because the students (~13) all times play around with the settings.

Is there a tool to build 300 users automatic such user001, user002 ..., and generate passwords by accident ?

How shoud i get the xp-reset after login or something ?

Any tips ?



excuse my bad english
fpausp

[MSmith]

Set it & forget it with Deep Freeze by Faronics:

http://www.faronics.com/index.asp

[fpausp]

Thank´s for the tip, i will give it a try and i found out that lazy-admin-tools are working on sme7 (with some changes).

thanks
fpausp

[steever]

Hi.  We use SME as our school server with over 80 Windows XP/2K clients and over 300 user accounts.  It works perfectly.  For the student lab computers we use a combination of local policies (to prevent the kids from playing around too much with the desktop etc) and a tool called pgina which authenticates off the SME's POP server, creates a default configuration for each user upon login and then removes the user account upon logout.  Works perfectly. Contact me at admin@marist.ac.jp for further details.[/img]

[jfarschman]

fpausp,

  You said you had the lazy-admin tools working on 7BETAx with some minor changes.  Care to share those changes?

  Lots of peoplw will owe you a....

[jfarschman]

Just took a look and it appears that there is a minor bug that causes a repeated error message when any of the LAT tools are run.

It's pretty easy to fix.  in /usr/sbin change the following lines so that the esmith::config db is properly referenced.  For instance: /home/e-smith/db/accounts for the first line.  After this everything appears to work... I haven't done extensive testing yet.

lat-domains:tie %accounts, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/accounts';
lat-domains:tie %domains, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/domains';
lat-dump:tie %accounts, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/db/accounts';
lat-dump:tie %hosts, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/db/hosts';
lat-dump:tie %domains, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/db/domains';
lat-dump:tie %processmail, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/db/processmail';
lat-groups:tie %accounts, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/accounts';
lat-hosts:tie %accounts, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/accounts';
lat-hosts:tie %hosts, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/hosts';
lat-hosts:tie %domains, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/domains';
lat-ibays:tie %accounts, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/accounts';
lat-pptp:tie %accounts, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/accounts';
lat-procmail:tie %accounts, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/accounts';
lat-procmail:tie %processmail, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/processmail';
lat-pseudonyms:tie %accounts, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/accounts';
lat-quota:tie %accounts, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/db/accounts';
lat-users:tie %accounts, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/accounts';

[fpausp]

Hi,

I have done this, and that was working:

http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/SME7Contribs

e-smith-lazy_admin_tools-0.9.0-1.noarch.rpm (SME7 b1); seems to work in SME7 b5 if you edit /usr/sbin/lat-~* scripts to use config path /home/e-smith/db/ instead of /home/e-smith/

maybe your method is easier

fpausp