Hello: Vicky Plaha wrote, > Yes, actually I, for one, would like to have user profiles etc to make > my Windows users switch completely to Linux.
Really? Your users are refusing to switch to Linux because it does not have user profiles support??? WoW! As a site administrator, the first thing I would do is to make sure that no user can store his personal crap on my server! ;) > As of now, all that is stopping me is the absence of these features > offered by WinNT/2K. Though UNIX does not have the concept of domain logons, that does not mean that you cannot achieve the same effect. The easiest way to get a "pseudo domain logons" would be to get a beefy server with lots of RAM and start a display manager like XDM on it. Every user from his workstation simply does "X -query -indirect" and you are done. Every user will get the same "view" from any workstation on the network and all his config/homedir will reside on the server. The above approach is not efficient if you have a lot of clients and are on a low bandwidth network. The second approach is to run an auto-mounter server like autofs or amd, and mount the user's home directory from a central NFS server onto the workstation on user login. You will also have to deploy an LDAP/NIS service for a single sign on (SSO) solution. Otherwise, this will get difficult to manage. This approach is easy on the server and makes full use of the workstation's resources. Hope this gives you some idea on how to proceed. -- Shanu http://shankerbalan.com -- Signals don't kill programs. Programs kill programs. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
