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Every student should use the shorcut on their  Desktop, which should point to something like Every student should use the shortcut on their desktop, which should point to something like

HowTos for users

Changing passwords

Every student should use the shortcut on their desktop, which should point to something like https://ldap/lwat/chguserpw.php?username=$(id -un). (On Windows they have to manually put in their username.)

Using lwat to change their password ensures that linux (userPassword) and samba (sabmaNTPassword and smbaLMPassword) passwords are the same.

FIXME: changing passwords for users needs to be upated for Squeeze

Volume control

On thin clients, pavucontrol or alsamixer (but not kmix) can be used to change audio volume.

On other machines (workstations, LTSP servers, and diskless workstations), kmix or alsamixer can be used.

Using email

All users can send and receive mails within the internal network. To allow mail outside the internal network, the adminstrator needs to configure the mailserver exim4 to suit the local situation, starting with dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config.

Every user who wants to use KMail needs to configure it as follows.

First, start KMail and skip the wizard ("Cancel"). Open the configuration window and enter your identity (username and mail-address: username@postoffice.intern). Now move on to "Accounts" and there choose the "Sending" tab. Add SMTP, with the host set to "postoffice", and default port "25". Do not forget to enter "postoffice.intern" as the default domain and click "Apply". Send a mail to yourself (username@postoffice.intern) now to make sure your directory on the IMAP server is created.

After that, add a new IMAP account under the "Receiving" tab. Enter your username and password; the host is again "postoffice". Switch to the "Security" tab and click on "Check What the Server Supports". Click "Continue" in the warning about the missing server certificate and accept that "forever". Go back to the "General" tab. The "Port" should now be set to "993". Click "Ok" and check if the mail to yourself is there. :)