How can K12LTSP be configured so that when you create a new user, their home directory will be where their work in Windows is saved also?

As an example, they boot into K12LTSP and create a document in Open Office, the next time they boot into Windows 98 and the same document is visible with Microsoft Word in MyDocuments.

We just gotta map their Samba Home dir to their /home dirs. Or perhaps a subdirectory thereof. It's easy to get Samba to auto-create everyone's home mapping.

See ConfigureSamba for an explaination of how to configure samba to share /home directories.

To create a new user:

• Log on as root
• Start the User and Group manager: "Red Hat" -> "System Settings" -> "Users and Groups"
• Click "Add User"
• Enter the required information and click Ok
• Start the Samba Service configuration tool: "Red Hat" -> "System Settings" -> "Samba Server"
• Select "Preferences" -> "Samba Users", and add the newly created user to Samba as well. See ConfigureSamba for details.

When a student uses a Windows PC to access her files, she should use the same login and password as she uses for logging on to a K12LTSP machine.

Then, she should be able to go to Network Neighborhood, open the "K12LTSP" workgroup, and finally open "SERVER" to see the available shares. If file sharing has been configured according to the ConfigureSamba document, the only shared folder that should be seen will have the student's login name. This shared folder is the students home directory (/home/) on the LTSP server, and all the student's documents will be inside here.

For a student named Sally, with login "sally", then, her home directory (/home/sally) will then show up as \\server1\sally ("Network Neighborhood" -> "server1" -> "sally").

Caveats

For this to work, each student needs to have his or her very own login on the K12LTSP server. The way the Hickman lab is currently set up, logins are tied to the particular client PC the student is sitting in front of (i.e., when using terminal "guest01", the student logs on as "guest01").

User accounts are rather simple to set up via Red Hat's Users and Groups tool ("Red Hat" -> "System Settings" -> "Users and Groups").