[nzlug] Recommendation for office laptop setup

[Toby Collett]

There will be a couple of Windows boxes, but majority, including the 
laptops, will be linux only. Samba was nice and convenient for setting 
up the network shares for both OS's. Currently there is one windows PC 
and it is not fully participating on the network (network mounts only, 
no profiles/authentication etc)

Toby

David Young wrote:
> Hi Toby,
>
> Since you mention Samba, I'm assuming that the clients are running 
> Windows?
>
> In my experience, the best solution for laptop users has been to give 
> them a
> local profile, stick everything they need on a mapped drive, and then 
> make
> that drive available offline. Windows then handles the syncing on login /
> logoff, and the user can still access all the data he needs from home, on
> the network drive which "appears" to be there.
>
> It's maybe not the most elegant or sleek solution, but it seems 
> stable, and
> keeps the users happy, while making sure that I have their critical data
> backed up :)
>