various questions re setting up a small network for a media centre.

From: Andy Baxter (news4_at_earthsong.null.free-online.co.uk)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:41:27 +0100

I'm helping set up a small linux network for a local art gallery/media
centre, together with some other people from our local LUG, and could do
with a bit of help finding the right way to do various things.

we have a fast 1.4 GHz machine running mandrake as an x-terminal server,
three old pentiums set up as x terminals, and a variety of other old
machines plus another decent 1GHz machine which I'm considering donating
for doing audio/video processing.

So far the x terminals are working OK for web browsing, but there are a
few other things I would like to get working which I could do with some
advice on.

- atm each x-terminal has a separate guest login on the server (guest,
guest2, guest3), with the usernames and passwords for these shown on each
terminal. This is because some applications don't like it (e.g. open
office) if there is more than one login on the same account at the same
time. Is there any simple way of providing just one guest account to log
in with, which then takes people to a terminal-specific guest account
after they have logged in? E.g. by putting something in the xsession
script?

- It would be good if the floppy drives in these machines could be
available in the directory space of the relevant accounts on the server -
is there a good way of doing this?

- I'm setting up a file server which could be used to provide space for
people who want permanent non-guest accounts on the system. This should be
available to people logged in on the x terminal server and also on any
other standalone machines we set up. Thinking about using NFS for this,
but I've heard it's considered to be unreliable or insecure - is this so
and is there a better system? 

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