RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] A lab with Linux or Windows

["Russell Horn" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

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> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Mike Miller
> Sent: 07 November 2002 06:13
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> If it's about the desktop, that can be done too.  We do it here.  You have
> an NT Domain and you log onto the domain instead of logging onto the PC
> itself.  You have to be running NT or 2000 or similar Windows OS.  I
> haven't had any problems using it either here or at MU (we had it there in
> psychology).  I believe it's different than the roaming profile system
> referred to above.

While Win2k/NT is better for the task, you can do roaming profiles in
Windows 98 / ME too.

There's plenty about Roaming Profiles on the Samba website. They're fairly
standard in business set ups and Samba handles them fine.

Remember though, if every user has say 100MB of profile data, and you have
100 users, you now have 10Gig of data which all has to be transferred to the
server when they all log off at the end of the class. You'll want to make
sure My Documents actually lives on the server, rather than being copied
across which will help reduce this problem.

Russell

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