Well, the last approach seems ok since I can mount their home directories whenever they login. Do tell me if this will work regardless of the client machine that they login from?
Thanks, Vicky --- Shanker Balan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com _______________________________________________________________ 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
