Dual booting Ubuntu with Windows XP

[Oops_my_bad]

Can anyone offer any tips or guidance on having XP safely co-existing with Ubuntu? I'm quite happy with being able to dual boot a machine but am worried that whilst in Ubuntu, kids can muck about with not only the Ubuntu system, but also knacker the Windows partition. Is there a way to safely lock down the linux side whilst still being able to run applications?

[Geoff]

You may want to investigate KDE's kiosk mode.

 

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kiosk/index.html

[Oops_my_bad]

thanks geoff that looks just the ticket - i take it you can still logon using AD when using kiosk?

[Geoff]

yeah, if you've faffed with PAM so it pulls logins via Winbind you'll be fine.