On restart, "hosts" file must be re-edited. Here's how. |
The Stockroom kiosks need to allow only browser access. Thus, they are configured to run as "just kiosks", using OS and software configurations to make this happen.
Michael Hint found a Linux OS (distro/ name?!) providing a good kiosk-like environment which was better than what we accomplished with Windows.
However, after any restart, the Linux kiosks must have one file edited. Here are the instructions:
Once saved, the kiosks immediately should pickup the change.
The command "uname -r" gives me "4.4.36-kiosk". Searching that tells me it thus might be:
Porteus Kiosk Edition: An edition of Porteus which has been restricted to allow public users access to only the web browser. A perfect fit for kiosks and other publicly available web terminals.
Oliver's notes, from inspecting it: