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

[Dirk H Bartley]

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 07:50, Richard Harding wrote:
> 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?

Well yes and no.  You can mount an nfs or smb share.

> 
> 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...

Read this and ask more questions.  I'd say that I only partially
succeded at something similar to what you are interested in.

http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/pipermail/members/2003-July/008082.html

I'd suggest ltsp workstations.  Rip them bastardious hard drives right
out.

Dirk