Quoting "L. Mark Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:38 am, Quentin Hartman wrote: > > Ideally, I would like to setup a single centrally managed and > > authenticated domain, but have user home directories served from member > > servers in the users' home buildings, as performance over the WAN links > > is poor. The problem I'm having is figuring out a mechanism wherein the > > PDC or a login script will be smart enough to know which member server > > to connect to for their home directories.
Well, if you use LDAP, you can set homedirs (and paths) and profileopaths for each user. Problem solved. Tarjei > > Trying to understand this a bit better before I comment... > > First, won't roving users be disappointed if you have separate home > directories in each building? Won't they expect that a document on which > they worked in one building be available when they go to the next building? > > Second, are you contemplating using roaming profiles, and if so, are these > profiles likely to be large? E.g., users store big files on their Desktop, > and/or have 200MB Outlook pst files, etc.... > > Lastly, if I read your post correctly you have T-1 speeds between buildings. > > That's a pretty fat pipe to fill, so why do you say the building-to-building > > networks links are slow? > > -- > _________________________________________________ > A Message From... L. Mark Stone > > Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC > 477 Congress Street > Portland, ME 04101 > Tel: (207) 772-5678 > Web: www.RNoME.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > Mob: 920 63 413 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
