We have a Samba server sharing drives and printers to my PC users in a network.
The difficulty we currently face is the (soon to be) burgeoning number of users that move from PC to PC and need to have their own "desktop's" with their own network drives and printer shares, at each of the PC's to which they move. The PC's are running windows XP or Windows 2000. My PC guy tells me that if we installed a Windows 2000 server with domains we would be able to authenticate them onto the network using this Windows 2000 server, and also control their user profiles and desktops at each of the machines. I have a strong (at times irrational) aversion to Windows 2000 servers. What we would really like is for Samba and Solaris, or even Linux, to : 1) Authenticate the users and force them to change their passwords according to an expiry period, no matter which PC they log into 2) Share the correct drive mappings based on the user id they log into from the PC, not the PC machine name. 3) Allow their own private desktop's to appear no matter which PC they log into. 4) They need to run two MS-based applications. Sounds like a job for thin clients or something. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
