Florian Reitmeir wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Ronny Aasen wrote: > > >>> i only had troubles using "roaming" profiles. I think thats the correct >>> samba-term for the feature. >>> >>> roaming profiles, are really bad. >>> > > >> we use roaming profiles for all the windows machienes and realy do >> depend on it. >> In my opinion the best solution is to educate the users, yes it's the >> most work. >> > > i think its hell, to educate users how things work for windows&linux on the > same time. > > >> the second best is to exclude some things from the profile. eg redirect >> my documents to home/priv, and not sync things like IE cache, local >> settings and temp areas. (this is very site/application spesific so a >> sane default is hard to do) >> >> the third (worst) to disable roming profiles. for other sites this is >> perhaps the best solution :) >> > > thats completly the point. > there is _no_, nice solution, and .. for the most people which only use some > windows machines, its the best solution. > > An other thing is, if roaming-profiles are disabled by default, nobody gets > hurd. The worst is, that some people are missing the feature. But there are > no quota problems, and there are no other bad things.. > > and everybody can just enable them.. and if he/she does he has to alter the > windows installation aswell. > > > >> Alas needs are allways different, and if some school can afford lisence >> costs for windows they should be able to afford the cost of maintaining >> them as well. It's not like this is any less a problem on a pure windows >> system. >> > > Installations i know, end in chaos, simply because no one knows how to do it > right. On pure window installations you get often told "please don't try to > logon with you user on this machine, because.. there isn't enough diskspace > on the machine, the program 'x' won't work, the server can't take the > load..." > > >> And in the end. it's better to stick close to the default and have the >> benefit of the huge amount of documentation online, then to create our >> own defaults that will be very debian edu spesific, and only change the >> group of users that must do manual tweaks. >> > > for me, the majority isn't using roaming profiles. And the problem, that to > use such profiles correctly, the windows machines have to be installed in a > special way (at least some programs) just hardens my point. > > >> ofcourse if 99% wanted to disable profiles i would be inclined to agree, >> but i do not think that's the case. >> > > By the way, if you want to influence the decition process you should add your opinions to the bugreport at http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=1064
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