[Gllug] Windows -> Linux

[tet at accucard.com]

>Perhaps this is a little close to the bleeding edge for general deployment,
>but...
>
>I like the idea of almost locking people out of their own machines and
>having them SMB mount $HOME from the NT file server. I can see huge benefits
>for managing the system (virus scans, backups, you name it).

It's not at all bleeding edge. It's how Unix desktops have been run in
large organisations for donkeys years. I do it like that both at work
and at home (s/SMB/NFS).

All you need is some kind of network filesystem, and a means of having
shared authentication information over the network (eg., NIS, LDAP).

The only tricky part comes when you have laptop users, but for static
desktops, it's fine.

Tet

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