Re: School setup - very limited user accounts.

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Simon wrote:
Hi,

I am the "network admin" for a school of about 700 kids.
I have some good knowledge, (as a developer), of computers but I wouldn't
say I am a real network administrator.

Everything has been physically setup, (all the computers are linked and so
on).
Currently we have a username and password for each computers and depending
where the kids are sitting they must use that account.

What we would like to do is setup a very limited user account for each kid.
So that when the kids move on thru the years we can delete their account as
needed and the computer will remain free of the usual junk associated with
kids :).

What we would like is an account where they cannot save anything to the
local drive.
They would only have one folder, (with their username), on the file server.

This is important so that if a computer goes down or if a teacher moves a
kids to another desk, (for whatever reason), then all their profile, files
will be the same.

As we are a government school our budget is limited so I would like to try
and set this up without having to call in an administrator.
And more importantly I would like to know how it is done so I can fix any
problems in future.

I hope this makes sense.

Is there any tutorial to help me setup such user group/accounts?

Simon

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