On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 11:06, Ron Daniel wrote: Holy missing domains Batman, this sounds like a job for Samba!
You need a Samba PDC with support for roaming profiles. > 1) Authenticate the users and force them to change their passwords > according to an expiry period, no matter which PC they log into Yep > 2) Share the correct drive mappings based on the user id they log into > from the PC, not the PC machine name. Either or. > 3) Allow their own private desktop's to appear no matter which PC they > log into. Yep > 4) They need to run two MS-based applications. > Yep > Sounds like a job for thin clients or something. If you've already got the machines and the server, samba PDC is the way to go. Works with solaris and linux. It can also do automagic printer configuration etc, so it's pretty functional. Check the samba documentation or google for more howtos. If you get stuck, mail the list again. TG -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
