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

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Russell Horn wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> > [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Mike Miller
> > Sent: 07 November 2002 06:13
> >
> >
> > 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.

So, is this a different thing than "logging onto the NT domain"?


> 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.

Is it possible to store user profile data on a remote machine??!!  This is
extremely important.  Is it impossible to store it on a mounted drive?
If it is possible, it's definitely desirable and would seem to solve the
problem described above.

Mike

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