[debian-lan-devel] Roaming workstations in Debian-LAN available

Julien Lambot jlambot at gmail.com
Thu May 23 08:29:41 UTC 2013


Hi Andy
Many thanks for that feature ! Great you could implement it.

Back on testing after some holidays :)

Greetings


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas B. Mundt <andi.mundt at web.de>wrote:

> (cc debian-edu, as they are working on the same issue ...)
>
> Hi all,
>
> with the latest commit, roaming workstations are available in
> Debian-LAN!
>
>         <URL:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/debian-lan.git;a=commitdiff;h=9aef028d091e30f2a560315e89c604e7a07c2ffc
> >
>
> The ROAMING class allows to log into machines without connection to
> the Debian-LAN network.  The class can be added to any standard
> workstation.
>
> A users first needs to log into the roaming machine when it is in the
> Debian-LAN network.  After that, the machine may be taken off-line,
> the user can now still log in and a local home directory is created.
>
> Back in the Debian-LAN network and in the NFS-home directory, the user
> will find his off-line data in '/home/<username>/'.
>
> After some testing, I have already some improvement in mind: Copy the
> Debian-LAN home directory to the machine locally on the first login.
>
> Best regards,
>
>      Andi
>
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