José Antonio Calvo Fernández wrote: > Hi fellow eBox users, > > With the upcoming release of eBox 1.2, we have reached a point on > which we can configure a lot of services, among these services there > are a lot that are likely to be used on a desktop client. > > We have thought we could make system integrators' lives easier, > greatly simplifying the process of installing and configuring a set of > clients with a solution faithful to our philosophy. > > And here it is: > > ebox-desktop is a new package for Ubuntu Jaunty desktop machines that > provides autoconfiguration of some clients (evolution, pidgin, ekiga, > ...) that use the services provided by eBox. It also allows the client > machines to authenticate against the eBox server. > > Please take into account that this is a beta proof of concept, not an > official release, so use it at your own risk. > > You can read everything about this new product here: > > http://trac.ebox-platform.com/wiki/Document/Documentation/EboxDesktop > I was just reading about this now. One question I ask myself is what happens if the server is unavailable/ goes offline? Can the user then reach/see the HOME directory? If you have a laptop user that often works off the network, what happens re. HOME?
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