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Context and goals
The goal of the LLL project is to supply a Linux solution to Luxembourgish Highschools, and other communities.
Following type of features are available:
- Local services: file storage, printing
- Full-featured internet access
- Ease of Administration
Features
- Windows file and print serving
- E-mail
- Local e-mail access via sendmail and IMAP
- Remote e-mail access from any web-browser via Horde/IMP
- Web browsing and hosting
- Firewall
- Pdf Printer
- Client PC installation: UDPcast
- Administration via webmin
Samba file serving
- Users and passwords managed by Linux server
- Files directly accessible from Windows clients
- Fine-grained permissions
- Available Windows drives
- Specific to student: P:, S:, and W:
- Common to a class: G:, T:
- Public (readable for everybody)
- "Project"-related drives
Samba print serving
- Printers accessible from Linux and Windows clients
- Supported connectivity:
- HP Jet-direct (network printer)
- Directly attached to server
- Attached to windows workstations
- Print job accounting
- Friendly email: <code>First.Last@school.lu</code>
- E-mail accessible from within via IMAP (Mozilla)
- E-mail accessible from outside via IMP/Horde webmail (usable from any computer with a Web browser)
- Spam filtering
Squid web cache
- Accelerated browsing experience
- Possibility of blocking sites with questionable content
- Accountability: log of URLs visited
Web hosting
- Public school web page
- Internal school web page
- Personal web page for each student
Firewall
- Protects the school network against attacks from outside
- Protects the outside world against attacks by the students
- Enforces usage of web proxy
- Allows flexible allocation of IP addresses using Network Address Translation (for FTP, IRC, ...)
Pdf Printer
- Convert Office documents to PDF format by printing them to a special network printer
- There is also an email-based converter: <code>office2pdf@office2pdf.lll.lu</code>
Udpcast
- "Cloning" of client PCs
- For "first time" installation
- For "repairing" PCs after students had their fun with them
- Takes advantage of Ethernet multicast to send to multiple destinations at once simultaneously
- Example: partition of 5 GB can be copied to a whole classroom in under 8 minutes
- Easy-to-use menu driven boot disk
- Available at http://www.UDPcast.linux.lu
Webmin administration interface
- User management
- Firewall administration
- Fine-grained access control (access to network services, shared folders and exam users)
Client side Linux
- Client-side Linux at the LGL, Sainte Sophie and Wilwerwiltz
- "Programming" classes, networked gamed
- Access to server via NIS and NFS
Key figures
- 4 schools
- 4000 students
- 1000 at LTNB (since 1994)
- 1250 at LGL (since spring 1999)
- 1250 at LTML (since fall 1999)
- 625 at EPND (since spring 2001)
- Internetstuff Wilwerwiltz (since summer 2003)
- 300 at Primary school Troisvierges (in progress)
- Transfair/Minka (since April 2004)
- 350 at Primary school Parc Hosingen (since June 2004)