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

[komal]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk H Bartley" <bartleyd2@chartermi.net>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 1:17 AM
Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] question about locking down a linux system for
TS client


> 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
>

Easy tiger !

Regards

Komal