[Gllug] Filling the pool

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 15 Mar, Dylan wrote:
> On Sunday 15 March 2009, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:02:05AM +0000, Chris wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >    I have been asked about supplying a shared pool of workstations (or
> > > terminals) so that individual members of independant "charitable" or
> > > "worthy" groups can work and access the internet and local facilities
> > > such as printers, fileservers, and mailservers. Is there a recommended or
> > > best practice solution, such as radius or kerberos?
> >
> > Insufficient data.  Are these workstations all supposed to be in the
> > same location?  Are they in the same location as the file and mail
> > system?
> 
> Will people have accounts or is a web-cafe setup?
> 
> 
> 
   Thanks for the replies so far. After years of trying to persuade my local
council to consider FOSS my local councillors have pointed me towards a
local project.
   A local very large government building is being re-developed as flats,
and part of the deal with the developers is that they will also renovate one
or two nearby local community centres, and provide working space for
unspecified worthy groups. I do not have much more information at present,
and the people I am dealing with are not IT specialists but what appears to
be a part EU funded quango. I have been told that users are to be given
access to any from a pool of workstations, but do not know what other
facilities are expected, such as webmail or local emails, file storage, etc.
I suspect that they have not even thought about it.
   I am trying to assemble a selction of options for them to consider, and
hope that other projects may follow if this is successful.


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