Re: [K12OSN] Kids working on documents at home and at school
Chris Thomas (cwt137@yahoo.com)
Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:47:44 -0700 (PDT)
I haven't tried it myself for the kids at my school
but, Ive heard people have used webdav as a solution.
You might want to look into it because it is web based
and works over many platforms. Here are a few links
you can look at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Apache-WebDAV-LDAP-HOWTO.html
and
www.webdav.org
--- Rita Gibson wrote:
> I am reposting this question for the technology
> teacher at our school. Do
> any of your students have problems when carrying
> documents back and forth
> from school to home, and home to school?
>
> TIA,
> Rita Gibson and Elizabeth Spruill
>
> Hi...I am the media technology librarian at the
> Rocky Mountain School of
> Expeditionary Learning in Denver...We started
> running K12LTSP this year, and
> so far it seems to be working pretty well for us.
> Currently I am having
> problems with floppy drives and mtools. Most of our
> students are using
> Windows at home, and when they try to save files
> being careful to save in
> Microsoft formats, things often work fine. They'll
> take the disk home, and
> for many of them they are able to open it fine at
> home and then bring it
> back.
> They put the disk back in a terminal, save their
> files to the server and it
> may or may not work. Typically, they can exchange
> things once or twice, and
> after that, Mtools gives them a message that
> a:permission is denied, and
> a:cannot initialize. I have considered having kids
> use e-mail to transport
> files back and forth, and it seems as though this
> may be our most likely
> solution for now, but I am wondering how to fix
> this. Given that for most
> kids it works fine the first time or two, I don't
> know what the problem is.
> I
> thought for a while that it was just substandard
> floppy disks, and have been
> using scandisk to try and fix errors on disks, but
> that doesn't always seem
> to
> help. Thanks for your help. I have been watching
> the listserve all year,
> but
> have so far been quiet.
> Thanks...
> Elizabeth Spruill
>
>
>
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