if Windows had a usermod command then that solution might work. For this reason and many others I would rather be managing a linux network, but the reality is that I need to support Windows 7.
-bj On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Brett Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > What if you created a group and added all users to it. Then you could > create a shared home directory and apply permissions to allow anyone > in that group to use it. Next, use usermod to change each user's home > directory to the new shared location. > > As unix doesn't lock files that are in use, I don't think there would > be a huge issue in having them share it in the way described above... > only thing I can think is that you might hit issues with new file > creation/permission/ownership and with umask you could force group > ownership to have full access to the files... > > Would that work? > > -- > Brett Johnson > simpleroute | 1690 Williston Road | South Burlington, VT 05401 > tel: 802-578-3983 | email: [email protected] | web: simpleroute.com > > > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Bjorn Behrendt > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am looking for an opensource alternative to Forensit's User Profile > > manager, or another commercial one I found was Zap (which at the moment > is > > only windows XP). > > In windows every user who logs in gets a cached local profile made for > them. > > Microsoft has some overcomplicated methods for managing this, but I > don't > > like them. > > I am just trying to make it so that every user who logs into the windows > > machine uses the same user profile. I have been looking for this feature > > for a while now. I have almost come to the conclusion that there is not > an > > opensoruce version written yet. > > -bj > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Anthony Carrico <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > >> > >> On 07/20/2010 08:52 AM, Bjorn Behrendt wrote: > >> > I just found Forensit's User Profile Manager. They have a feature > >> > where in Windows you can assign a single profile to a group of users. > >> > This saves a lot of time and frustration. I would love to find (or > >> > make if i knew how) an OpenSource version. It doesn't even need to > be > >> > as fancy, just one check box that forces everyone who logs in to use 1 > >> > profile. > >> > > >> > Any Ideas anyone? > >> > >> I don't think I know what a Windows User Profile is, I'm assuming it is > >> something like Unix group ids, or initial homedir skeleton, etc., but > >> anyway are you looking for something similar to manage accounts on a > >> unix/linux machine, or an open source tool to actually manage a Windows > >> installation? > >> > >> -- > >> Anthony Carrico > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Bjorn Behrendt > > IT Coordinator > > Mount St. Joseph > > [email protected] > > (802) 775-0151 > > > -- Bjorn Behrendt IT Coordinator Mount St. Joseph [email protected] (802) 775-0151
