[Wylug-discuss] Q2: PDC style setup (repost)

[lee at leeevans.org]

Hi Gary,

Distinguishing between which bits of a profile [docs / temp files etc] you do
and don't want to store server-side might not be so easy.

The 'simplest' way to do it would be to use a Samba system as DC and setup
roaming profiles. You'll get everything copied to the server with the advantage
of 'hotdesking' ability.

it's relatively straight forward and reliable - try this:

http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-pdc.html


regards

lee

Quoting Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk>:

> Hi folks.
>
> As part of the backup solution mentioned in my other post the salesman
> suggested banning all local storage ('My Documents' etc) and having
> them all on a single network file server - he did conceed that Linux
> would be the better solution here due to M$'s licensing policies and
> the fact that we've over 100 users (and therefore 100 CALs).
>
> My question is what's the best way to set this up?  I don't need
> hot-desking so I can map 1PC -> 1 User, but I do need:
>
> 1) to be able to automatically (and reliably) at user logon ,mount a
> mapped network drive from the WinXP box to the Linux box.
>
> 2) to redirect 'My Documents' and 'Desktop' to the mapped network drive
>
> 3) keep temporary files and temporary internet files on the local disk
>
> 4) anything else you can think of, such as any PDC style functionality I
> can benefit from out of the Linux boxes.
>
> Sorry to go OT. The more I wrote this the more I realised it was an XP
> question and not a Linux one, but I'm sure there are people out there
> who've done this.
> --
> Gary Stainburn
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