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Re: GUI LAN transfers: msg#00015

Subject: Re: GUI LAN transfers
Hi Ralph,

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 21:14 +0200, R.M.Deal wrote:
> I am trying to move Edubuntu or Ubuntu into our international school as
> the standard operating system.  Right now, I have a major problem:
> My users are teachers mostly who are NOT going to use the command-line
> at all.  So my question is, how do I provide my users with a simple graphic,
> icon-moving technique for taking documents (say in OpenOffice) created
> locally and storing them in a central server?

Well, there a couple of ways for 'drag and drop', and the depend on the
protocol you use (i.e. NFS, SAMBA, etc). At least with Edubuntu, this is
even simpler in the LTSP mode because ALL users from clients are
actually accessing a 'central server' (the one they boot from).

Else, if each client boots as standalone mode, and if they use GNOME,
users can drag'n drop files and folders from one location to another, as
long as the privileges setting allow it (NFS is good at this). 

> Related to this question is:  How do I tell my users how to send their
> documents to a remote computer printer or a LAN printer, graphically?

Well, I have always set CUPS from localhost:631 only, after adding a
'cupsys' to 'shadow' group (IIRC). Then you get to a nice 'web'like
interface at which you can set a printer to use 'iip' protocol, which
will let users to see that printer from their 'Print...' menu option, at
any application.

> Please let me know if this is a FAQ but a search I just made of my
> collection of recent Ubuntu digests yielded nothing useful.
> 

no idea yet. :D

Regards,

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