Introduction

PiNet is a system that has been in development for the past number of years by Andrew Mulholland, a Computer Science Graduate, based in Belfast.
It was designed for schools/organisations to setup and manage Raspberry Pi networks, to replicate similar systems already in place for Windows networks.
The software/documentation is completely free and open source and has been built with guidance from educators across the world. A list of all those that have helped make this project possible can be found here.
Note - Some documentation pages may still have mentions of Raspi-LTSP, ignore these. The site contains over 500 lines of text and over 150 images, so the upgrade may take some time.

Getting started

• Hardware for PiNet

• Installing Ubuntu

• Installing PiNet

• Copy boot files to SD card

• Installing Ubuntu using VirtualBox (optional)

Managing users

• Creating a new user

• Deleting a user

• Changing a users password

• Understanding staff and sudo options

• Migrating user data (for moving to a new PiNet server)

• Import users from CSV file

General features

• Key information

• Installing additional software

• Configuring automatic backups

• Collecting students work

• Updating SD card image

• Shared folders

• Epoptes classroom management software (Documentation not complete yet)

• PiNet different versions

Advanced options

• PiNet Benchmarks

• Editing Raspbian outside of PiNet

• Boot files explanation

• Supported addon boards

• Understanding network technologies

• Changing the default desktop and login screen background

• Changing keyboard mapping

• Understanding kernels on the Raspberry Pi and PiNet

• Using SSH to connect to the Raspberry Pis

• Custom config.txt file

• PiNet metrics

• Web filtering

• Additional languages

• Custom branches/repositories

• Remote Applications

Other

• Troubleshooting

• Frequently asked questions

Contributing

All the documentation written in markdown can be found in the Github repository. If you see issues/typos/mistakes/etc in this documentation please feel free to send in pull requests to fix them or open an issue.
If you want to contribute to the documentation (please do!!) then check out the contributing guide

Support

Having issues with PiNet, have a general question or just want some help setting up PiNet in your school?
Check out the support page on details of how to get in touch.