Shaun,
If ya just have to have the dreaded doze in the place one
solution you might like to play with is diskless clients
running win4lin. Win4lin ver 2 is in beta and it allows you
to run multiple win4lin sessions on the server. I'm running
it in test using the LTSP diskless clients. I setup the users
.xsession file so that when they log in it just launches
win4lin. When they "shutdown" there win4lin session it logs
them out again. The diskless terminals are all the old boxes
that are too slow to run doze but run win4lin really fast :-)
It works really well, and has a number of advantages.
. The user is authed from a central unix db (I'm using ldap).
. The users "pc" follows them no matter which terminal they
sit at.
. I can create a new "pc" to our standard by just untaring a
saved install into the users home dir on the erver
. The users "pc" is backed up without needing and doze based
backup tools. (I.E registry hack arounds, open files etc)
. The user has a X server that they can send displays to for
any Linux tools they might need to use.
Not sure what the licensing cost is going to be like as you
still need doze licenses, (but how many are con-current,
betcha MS wouldn't be very co-operative on this issue ;-)
Worth a look but I'd reckon.
Pete
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