[wplug] samba & roaming profiles

[Duncan Hutty]

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