[wellylug] SoupHub 2.0

[John Billings]

Thanks for you feedback Franck, some comments and question below:

On 01/07/15 10:23, Franck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recent Ubuntu provides the guest account with reset at logout.
> From what I remember, it creates a temporary home directory at login then delete the tree at logout.
> This should take care of you guest account need.
> 

Yep I like this approach, I'd like to keep things as close to default as
possible.

> For consistency, what we do is standard installation plus post installation script for customisation (remove software market and ads , ...)  This is simple enough for us and we don't have to manage the puppet infra. It really depends on the number of computers and the frequency in between reinstall.
> 

Could I take a look at your script?  I'm wondering if Puppet might be
more effort than it's worth, but I also have access to our office
Puppetmaster and could probably just copy most things from there.

> For fileshare, the issue is around right management. You'll end up managing accounts so I wonder if NIS+NFS for home directory isn't better for that matter, I know it looks like old fashion stuff, but it's quite robust. If you don't manage rights, then a simple share with rw access for every one should be enough.
> Again, if you don't worry about right management, space sharing between users (you always have a small portion of users who are heavy consumers) then it is quite simple.

Yep I think we just need a simple file share ala:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Public_Samba_Server

Cheers,
John

> 
> Best regards.
> Franck
> 
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 08:52:51PM +1200, John Billings wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We have been running the SoupHub, a small public computer lab at the
>> Sisters of Compassion Centre on Tory St. for a few years now.   Most
>> workstations are still running Debian Squeeze on some old Dell
>> workstations.  We do have one Ubuntu 12.04 box that we setup when one of
>> the original workstations failed.  We just got some new computers and we
>> are going to be setting them up weekend after next (11th or the 12th of
>> July).  We have 5 workstations (Core i3/8GB DDR3 machines).  We will be
>> setting them up in a new space at the Compassion Centre the building has
>> just undergone some renovations.
>>
>> Based on some feedback from other volunteers some things we are
>> considering to setup:
>>
>> * Guest account "resets" after logout
>> * Have a fileshare set for people who want to save files longer term
>> * More consistent setup across workstations
>>
>> I'm inclined to use Ubuntu 14.04 and setup a small server running Samba
>> for a fileshare and Puppet for enforcing some consistency on the
>> workstations.  I'd been keen to hear what other people would do for this
>> setup.  If anyone is interested in helping out, likely we will be
>> starting at 10am on the the 11th of July and see how we go.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> John Billings
>>
>>
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