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Open Space4 - I Suite 130 [Type notes and links for session here.] Title: Network Homes Over Wireless

Use channels 1, 6 and 11 on your access points. Could this be a solution? - Updated Nov. 23 by Jay Heath (ECFS) -- I spoke with our Networked Manager and this is already our set up. So while this will improve your wireless stability, it won't necessarily improve NHD speeds. -- Abe: This is the article I mentioned: [|Channel Deployment Issues (Cisco)] See Table 1, for example, on throughput rates with 3 vs. 4-channel deployments. What really should be done to firm up wireless network effectiveness is a wireless survey to determine signal ranges. We use D-Link DWL-3200AP access points and they've been pretty reliable. Can adjust radio output as well, which is helpful to controlling overlap. --

Network home redirectors.

Use a script to map their NHDs.

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Casper - framework tool for imaging, package creation. One element is Composer. jamfsoftware.com -- feel free to email Jay Heath with questions

-- Jay: in our local accounts, we move the student data that is left on the desktop to a file purgatory deep in the OS. I thought about making it a hidden folder, but that would make it difficult for the teachers to access the file.

Anyway, first I make sure the folder is created (you can go deeper in the fs if you want, but this does the trick for us):

#!/bin/sh mkdir /Library/Application\ Support/ECFS/Purgatory

You can put that in a bash script to create the file after the fact, or create the folder in your base image. To move the files, I use the following:

sudo mv ~/Desktop/* /Library/Application\ Support/ECFS/Purgatory/
 * 1) !/bin/sh

This is all very straightforward. If you have web links on the desktop, like we do, you can just build those into the script and have them moved back after the initial move. All of these scripts run at logout, which is enforced by Casper, but you could use Workgroup Manager or iHook to create the logout hooks.

As for the deletion of these files, we just leave them hidden so that students think their files are gone (I work in K-5, so I'm not too worried about students just relying on this location and using it to find their missing Desktop files--you're situation may differ, in which case you may want to create an executable script that teachers can use to restore the Desktop files from a hidden folder). If I were deleting the files, I would have a script run once a week and move the contents of .../Purgatory into /Purgatory/.Trashes, then a week later empty the .Trashes folder. That's what I would do! Hope this helps people.

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Attendees: Ben Lesch blesch@riverdale.edu Brandon Wolf, Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, bwolf@bhmsny.org Jay Heath, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, jheath at ecfs dot org Abe Hendin, The Abraham Joshua Heschel School Matthew Lipstein twitter: @matthewlipstein