[K12OSN] PD for staff (really OO)

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 09:38, Barry Solof wrote:

> The big reason we still run Netware servers in our shop is Zen for
> desktops.  It allows us to send, resend and update applications on
> Windows desktops better than anything else we've tried.
[...]
> Ok, thats my rant.  Anyone have a way to do this with a linux backend
> instead of Netware?  

If you switch the desktops to linux terminals with the home directories
accessible to an administrator, all installs/configuration changes
that involve individual config files become a shell or perl script
loop that substitutes personal values into a template.  If you stick
with windows, you'll need a commercial tool that knows how to deal
with the registry, but most of those don't require netware and wouldn't
care that some files come from samba mounts. 

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  Les Mikesell
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