[KLUG Members] question about locking down a linux system for TS client

[Adam Williams]

> We have some old HP terminals & older PCs we use to log into a Windows 
> Terminal server. We are looking at upgrading the terminal server to 
> win2k3 server and I want to see about replacing these terminals with 
> some older machines that I would like to load linux on. The hope is that 
> I could get the floppy on these machines to map to the 2k3 Terminal 
> Server like the windows machines do now.
> Does anyone have any info on:
> 1) can you map a drive from a linux system to the TS like you can from a 
> windows client?

Yes; if you have Samba on the Linux box you can map the connection in
the users session via the login script or whatever.  

Honestly, I've never seen the point of mapping a drive from a
thin-client.

> 2) Does anyone have a decent article or list of things to check to make 
> sure the linux machines are locked down as much as possible so that 
> students could only sit down and log into the Terminal Server with a 
> shortcut...script that would probably run rdesktop or something in full 
> screen mode etc...

Haven't seen one, but check the LTSP site.