On 10/12/06, Dan Boger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:01:13PM -0400, R. Mariotti wrote: > > Therefore, is anyone USING a linux-based facility to manage remote > > windows-based desktops for the purposes of patches, updates, admin, > > etc? Of course, we would prefer open sourced facilities but certainly > > will look at licensed software if necessary. > > Perhaps have the techs laptops run linux, with a VMWare read-only image > of their WinXP? That way, every time it's started up it'll be a fresh > image, and once in a while you could make a new one and just have them > update the laptops via openvpn/ssh or somesuch.
I would second this suggestion. And further add that you should put Samba on the Linux machine and train them to download things to the Linux partition. > Would that work? Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
