[wplug] samba & roaming profiles

[Luquilla Hughes]

I thought that Pitt was using the Andrew file system to do this? Maybe I 
misunderstood. here's a link 
http://web.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/www/html/sipb/guide/iathena/section3.8.html


>From: "Duncan Hutty" <duncanhutty at attbi.com>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: <wplug at wplug.org>
>Subject: [wplug] samba & roaming profiles
>Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 21:20:47 -0400
>
>As an aspirant linux geek & advocate, I think I have discovered a method
>that will persuade the company I work for, a mid size (~30 employees in 3
>locations) travel agency to give some notice to linux & from there to OS
>software in general. I come to you seeking your wisdom & advice.
>
>The network has 3 NT/2k served domains and win98 clients (+ 1 linux box 
>used
>to investigate new opportunities & educate) + 1 technical person (me) who
>has to spend most of their time on user support and maintaining the
>reservation system/QC software.
>My aim is to allow user settings, such as outlook express config, desktop
>appearance, shortcuts to networked resources, etc. to be accessible while
>roaming on the network. The travel agents frequently move from box to box
>and it would be preferable if they could take everything with them just by
>using their logon/password.
>
>I have glanced in O'Reilly's Using Samba & some resources on the web, but 
>to
>no avail. I believe that using samba would allow this type of functionality
>and am hoping somebody could confirm for me and preferably point me in the
>direction of some resources that would explain in detail.
>
>Thanks to the list members for all I have learnt lurking here.
>
>Duncan Hutty
>
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