[Samba] Reality Check - Roaming Profiles

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Lueck
Disclaimer... I know Roaming Profiles are a modern day example of the emperors new cloths. I also know that 2+2=4. Let's think Linux/Unix here a second. Preference files are stored in the user's home dir. A user can log in (text or X) multiple times, they will always get the same home dir. Thus

Re: [Samba] Reality Check - Roaming Profiles

2004-12-08 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 9 Dec 2004, at 12:07, Michael Lueck wrote: Let's think Linux/Unix here a second. Preference files are stored in the user's home dir. A user can log in (text or X) multiple times, they will always get the same home dir. Thus each login instance will share those config files. The same just

Re: [Samba] Reality Check - Roaming Profiles

2004-12-08 Thread Matthew Easton
On Wednesday 08 December 2004 18:19, Alex Satrapa wrote: On 9 Dec 2004, at 12:07, Michael Lueck wrote: The main disadvantage of the Microsoft Windows approach is the bandwidth wasted while people log in and out. In my experience, samba networks also have more problem with profiles becoming

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2004-12-08 Thread Eric Lester
Hmm. Guess I'll try sending this to the right list now. -- Forwarded message -- From: Eric Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 21:46:13 -0800 Subject: Re: [Samba] Reality Check - Roaming Profiles To: taclug mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] What I've found useful by way

Re: [Samba] Reality Check - Roaming Profiles

2004-12-08 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 9 Dec 2004, at 16:47, Eric Lester wrote: Furthermore, I set the browser cache limit to 20MB. This is also lockable with the Group Policy editor. The biggest problem for me - by far - is Mozilla storing its cache in the Documents and Settings folder. Rather than fiddle with cache size, I'd