OpenLanHouse Cyber Cafe Manager

I’ve been trying to run OpenLanHouse on my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx test server, this weekend, OpenLanHouse 0.2.1 actually was build for Ubuntu 9.04.

After I manage to installed it on both test server and client, It’s so hard for me to understand how this  OpenLanhouse works. Since it don’t have any help/guide doc from the website on how to use this software, so I have to figure out to work with it.

I manage to run the client to lock down the Screen, and the server detect the running client and did popup the register client dialog box, but I can’t login to client using username and password that I’ve created or using ticket aswell since both client server failed to establish the connection, and I know it’s didn’t establised the connection because there is nothing on the machine window show any client connected to the server.

And another feature that OpenLanHouse don’t have is a Post Paid function. For me, a cyber cafe manager software should have both Pre Paid and Post Paid feature and Cafe/Snack Point Of Sales function.

How to install on Ubuntu 10.04

Software packages dependencies for openlh-core and openlh-server
install python-gnutls  and python-sqlalchemy first

On Server:

sudo apt-get install python-gnutls python-sqlalchemy
wget http://openlanhouse.org/releases/0.2.1/debian/openlh-server_0.2.1-1_i386.deb
dpkg -i openlh-server_0.2.1-1_i386.deb
apt-get -f install (actually i dont even to the -f install)

On Client:

sudo apt-get install python-gnutls
wget http://openlanhouse.org/releases/0.2.1/ubuntu-jaunty/openlh-client_0.2.1-1_i386.deb
dpkg -i openlh-client_0.2.1-1_i386.deb
apt-get -f install

What is OpenLanhouse ?

The goal of OpenLanhouse is to provide a full featured and easy to use LAN house and Cyber Cafe manager, The project is entirely developed in Python and Gtk following the GNOME Human Guidelines for an intuitive and easy to use application.

Features

• Price particular of machines or users
• Close applications after finish session
• Support the plugins
• Support the tickets
• Support the pre-paid mode
• Shutdown/Reboot remotely
• User management with credit control
• Machine management with time and price control
• Autodetect new machines into server
• History control
• Limited and non limited modes
• Allow logins from machine clients
• Suport Cash flow
• Suport Open debts

more information on http://trac.openlanhouse.org