Re: [seul-edu] Classroom net administration

[Michael Viron <mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu>]

You might want to look at buying a copy of RedHat 6 Unleashed...it's got some very helpful stuff re: nis...

Let me know, and I can put together a "concise" list of instructions if you want....

Mike Viron
At 07:19 PM 05/26/2000 -0500, Dave Prentice wrote: 
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> To all:     In a previous message I asked  about the inability of my old 486's to run Xconfigurator. Y'all were correct  that the problem was in the video system. I'm working on getting some more  up-to-date video cards. Thanks!      All of  you seem far ahead of me in Linux knowledge. Can somebody please give  suggestions about the following? 1. I now have 6 Pentiums and a 486 server working in my  classroom. I would like to set up on each machine a user id with math software  on it, and a separate id with games and internet. (I hope to eventually give  each student a unique id.) As SU, is there a way to customize Gnome so that  different user id's would have different menus giving access to only the  programs I want them to have?   2. I want to control access from the server so the kids can't  play games when they are supposed to be learning math. I have been told that NIS  is the way to go, but when I try to set it up it says I need to compile it. When  I try, I get various configuration errors and don't have a clue what to do. Is  there some easy to follow script or documentation showing how to set up NIS or  some comparable access control system?   Thanks,  Dave Prentice
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