[Lancaster] Re: the kitchen network.

[Ken Hough]

Martyn Welch wrote:
> ------ Original message ------
> On Thursday 15 Jul 2004 14:19, Ken Hough wrote:
> 
> 
>>Has anybody had any further thoughts re setting up a PC with CD burner
>>at the Folly? Did anybody (eg Taylor?) order a CD writer?
>>
> 
> 
> A few, I'm trying to think of a way to allow CD burning to be easily 
> accomplished without the user being able to "use" the mahine that physically 
> does the burning. Something allong the lines of uploading an ISO.
> 

I figured that this would need sorting out. Keep on thinking.

Alternatively, the 'burning' machine could be used directly and be 
dedicated to this service only. ie no office apps, etc. Maybe not even 
'X'. Could do this via command line or text based (eg 'C') program or 
script which makes use of command line programs such as 'cdrecord'. This 
approach would discourage use for other purposes. For now, ISOs could be 
held locally, so networking is not necessary.

> 
>>I suggest that we use one of the two available PII boxes, but with some
>>extra RAM.
>>
> 
> 
> This I guess would be required if it was to be used as a normal desktop 
> machine, with GUI et all.
> 
> 
>>In the interests of simplicity, I suggest that this be set up with SuSE
>>v9.1 or a similar recent distro, so as to have access to the likes of
>>K3b and auto setup of CD writer (avoiding the need to set up scsi
>>emulation).
>>
> 
> 
> Which I suppose is the way to go for now...
> 
> Have a look at KDE Kiosk, it's less an app than a framework built into KDE. We 
> really need to look at this for the server as well as here. It allows 
> restrictions to be placed on the users account with varying degrees of 
> granularity.
>

I'll do some homework on this one.

Ken Hough