I'm planning to deploy some kiosk computers and would like to leave them with a small pendrive as boot disk, keeping the rest at an easy to back up server, ala LTSP.
Right now I'm pondering two options. An NFSed /home/, or a local copy of ~/ copied on login, rsynced on logout.
My fears are that working with files might get too slow, or my network might get clogged.
We have several wireless networks, some of them, doesn't need a proxy, some of them do. Furthermore, when some of our users go to other places, they need to change their proxies. Most of our users are not that well versed with computers.
I'd like to minimize the need for them to manually change this settings, as I've already done with their wireless connections.
Is there an existing program to set an specific wireless network to a certain fixed proxy configuration?
If there isn't, do you know if the necessary API exists to change it with a script or small application?