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Main Window

The main window has two,sometime three parts.
To the left there is a menu, and the right part is (sometimes) divided in to.
The upper part of the right window is were you edit general information about an object.
The lower part is were a search result is displayed, and were group membership are displayed

Menu

The menu has is divided into 4 parts
From the first three parts you may search or add new objects to the ldap database.
From the point automount, you may browse to search, add and remove automount objects from the ldap database.

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User administration

Adding Users

To add a user, select add from under the "User" menu. Type in the users full name. lwat will try to autogenerate a username. You may select a user type, eg. Admin, Student or Teacher, from the user template list. When you save the new user, lwat will automaticly set a password. When the user is created, you may click on the newly created username to modify the user directly, like changing the password to another, add the user to additional groups etc.

Mass-import of users

To mass-import users, select Add from under the "User" menu. Then choose file to upload, and press the button "Upload". You will then be redirected to import.php, where the rest of the import is done.

Modifying users

To modify a user, like changing group memberships, or set a new password, delete or disable a user, select Search from the Users menu. as you start to type in the username or fullname, lwat will search for a match. if there are fewer than 50 matches the result will be displayed as a clickable list.
To disable or delete a user, select the checkbox in front of the users full name, and press the button on the bottom.
To set a new password, click on the users full name, and then click "New password". lwat will automaticly create a new password for the user. If you dont like the password, click "New Password" again, and lwat will create an other password. If the admin has chosen so, it's also possible for the admin to set a password directly, although this is not advisible
To change the users Full name. search up and select the user in the same maner. then change the users name, and press save.
To change Group membership, search up and select the user. under the base information of the user, there is 2 listboxes. One is a list of groups that the user is a memer of, the other is a list of groups that the user is _not_ member of. To change the membership, select one line in either of the boxes, then press the button in between, to either include, or remove a group from the list of groups the user is a member of.

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Group administration

Adding Groups

To add a group, select add from under the "Group" menu. Type in the a group description and a groupname. Then save the new group.

Modifying groups

To modify a group, like disabling or deleting group members, changing the description of a group, or maybe just delete the group, leaving the members intact, or display a list of members in a group, select Search from the Group menu. As you start to type in the groupname or description, lwat will search for a match. if there are fewer than 50 matches the result will be displayed as a clickable list.
To disable or delete members of a group, or removing a group, select the checkbox in front of the groups name, and press the button on the bottom.
To change the group description, search up and click on the groups name. then change the group description, and press save.
When a group is displayed, all the members of the group is also displayed, and you may clik on a users full name, to show the user "properties". From there you may remove a user from the group, or do whatever you like.

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Machine administration

Adding Machines

To add a machine, select add from under the "Machines" menu. Type in the machine name. lwat will try to lookup the ip-address, and the domain-name of the machine using dns. You may also type in a MAC-Address. This will make it easier to build configuration files for the dhcp server later.

Modifying Machines

To modify a machine, like changing the ip-adress, mac-address, or even domain, or deleting a Machine, select Search from the Machines menu. As you start to type in the machinename, lwat will search for a match. if there are fewer than 50 matches the result will be displayed as a clickable list.
To delete a machine, select the checkbox in front of the groups name, and press the button on the bottom.
To change som information about a machine, search up and click on the Machine name. Then do whatever editing you find necessary and press save.
To add a machine to a netgroup, search up and click on the Machine name. Then change the netgroup membership, in the listbox under the machine properties

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Automount administration

Browsing automount information

There is 3 types of automount information.

Root mountpoint

This is the topmost automount point, and will typically be placed directly under the root (/) of your clients filesystem.
On a typical skolelinux/Debian Edu installation, this will be /skole.
On other installations I would suggest using some part of the domain-name. If your domain is example.net, I would have used /example.

Submountpoint

If you want a deeper layout of the automount tree, then just the topmost, and the automount share, you define these as submountpoint. This is typically the hostname of the server that are exporting some fileshares.
For a SkoleLinux/Debian Edu installation, this is typically /skole/tjener is typically defined as a submount point, since the Root-mountpoint is /skole and the fileserver is called tjener.

Automount share

This is the fileshare that are exported from the server.
On a SkoleLinux/Debian Edu installation /skole/tjener/home0 is exported from the mainserver tjener. I would suggest that you create a new fileshare /skole/tjener/students for the students personal folders, /skole/tjener/staff for the staff, and a shared forder /skole/tjener/shared. Remember that you also need to create the fileshares on the fileserver, and if nfs-export is used, define them in /etc/exports as well.

Creating root mountpoint

If you want to create a new root mountpoint, you have to do so imideatly after you start to browsing the autmount information Use the button "New root point", and enter the name of the root mountpoint. Do not include the leading "/"

Creating submountpoint

If you want to create a new submountpoint, browse your way down to where you want the submountpoint to be located, and use the button "New submount point". Enter the name (eg: server name) you want to use, without any "/"

Creating automount share

If you want to create a new automount share, browse your way down to where you want the share to be located, and use the button "New automount share". Enter the name (eg: home1 name) you want to use, without any "/"
The options used when mounting will be suggested, only change if you know what you're doing.
The export path will also be automaticly filled in, make sure that the path is correct, and that it's exported from the server.

Deleteing a mountpoint or a share

If you want to delete a mountpoint, you must make sure that there is no submountpoints or automount shares under the share/mountpoint you want to delete. Use the button "Delete", and confirm on the next screen.

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