Re: Internet Cafe

2000-09-20 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
ChrisHellberg<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would they then get back to the fancy graphical login screen.. Yes. >then when > they login again, everything is remounted I spose? Not if not using autofs, which never works really well in my exp

Re: Internet Cafe

2000-09-20 Thread Andre Berger
ChrisHellberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Does this really make sense? You would have to put in your floppy before you log in. What you really need is something like autofs that (theoretically) umounts drives in customizable intervals. This doesn't always work in my exerience. Be sure to combine a

Re: Internet Cafe

2000-09-19 Thread ChrisHellberg
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > ChrisHellberg<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So it can be done over ethernet? Sweet. So I spose if I'm not going to > > do down the radius path, and a simple app to boot them off the PC, would > > it be a matter of killall -9 , including > > the NFS mount? > > Wh

Re: Internet Cafe

2000-09-19 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
ChrisHellberg<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So it can be done over ethernet? Sweet. So I spose if I'm not going to > do down the radius path, and a simple app to boot them off the PC, would > it be a matter of killall -9 , including > the NFS mount? When using Gnome's GDM, you could write a simple

Re: Internet Cafe

2000-09-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:35:54PM +1200, ChrisHellberg wrote: > > So it can be done over ethernet? Sweet. So I spose if I'm not going to well i must plead total ignorance on radius will it not operate over ethernet? > do down the radius path, and a simple app to boot them off the PC, would >

Re: Internet Cafe

2000-09-17 Thread ChrisHellberg
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:26:50AM +1200, ChrisHellberg wrote: > > > > Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > > > > > This shouldn't be too tough. I'd look at radius for authorizing and > > > accounting. It's > > > built for this kind of stuff. As for automatically logging people

Re: Internet Cafe

2000-09-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:26:50AM +1200, ChrisHellberg wrote: > > Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > > > This shouldn't be too tough. I'd look at radius for authorizing and > > accounting. It's > > built for this kind of stuff. As for automatically logging people out this > > should be > > <> > >

Re: Internet Cafe

2000-09-17 Thread ChrisHellberg
Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > This shouldn't be too tough. I'd look at radius for authorizing and > accounting. It's > built for this kind of stuff. As for automatically logging people out this > should be <> ah, thought of that too. The problem with this is, I would have to create ppp over e

Re: Internet Cafe

2000-09-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
This shouldn't be too tough. I'd look at radius for authorizing and accounting. It's built for this kind of stuff. As for automatically logging people out this should be too tough. Just fire off a program when the xdm/gdm session starts. This little helper program could wait for a message from t

Re: Internet Cafe

2000-09-13 Thread Leen Besselink
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, ChrisHellberg wrote: > I want to set up an internet cafe at a hostel and am investigating > various ways of going about things. I think windows 2000 would be the > down the linux path, what would be the best way to log a workstation out > when credit expires? I rekon it's a m