yes, actually nt really can do that.
it's called a roaming profile and it's stored on
one of the servers.
but as you might have read from the previous
replies, linux is just as well capable of doing it.
tom
On Sun, 17 May 1998, David Masterson wrote:
> >>>>> "Mark" == M Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi folks, One of the things that a nt server can do for a win based
> > network is store each user's profile so that no matter what machine
> > the user logs on at they get the same icons, etc. on the desktop.
> > Could that kind of nt server be replaced with a linux server? If
> > so, what would do the user profile storage?
>
> NT can do that?? Not where I work. It's unlikely that two different
> systems have the same setup of software, so its unlikely that a user's
> profile or icons could be the same on two separate systems. The only
> way I could see that working is if most (if not all) of the system was
> accessed over the network from a file server. If that's how it works,
> then I see no reason that Linux couldn't be the file server (using
> Samba) -- the NTs wouldn't know the difference.
>
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