Roaming User Support - Questions...

[Adriaan de Groot]

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On Wednesday 04 February 2004 09:37, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> Well, it's not an application level problem, and it's not a problem of
> small/ medium sized shops, it's an overall linux problem. KDE might be
> affected, but it's only one of many. Just some hints:

This suggests that you should use the right technology for the job.

> Two years ago I was doing a workshop for IT managers of a _big_ german
> company (think: 14.000 desktops) introducing them to linux (and KDE) and
> one of the biggest concerns was, that they could not go with NFS mounted
> $HOME because it's near impossible with linux to failover a NFS server. And
> servers _will_ fail, no matter how hard you try, even if for a scheduled
> downtime. Yet, they of course wanted roaming profiles because they had it
> on Windows NT.

So instead of NFS, use either (a) a real distributed filesystem like AFS, 
which has multiple redundant servers and synchronization, along with a 
disconnected mode (b) an NFS implementation that handles failure gracefully, 
like FreeBSD's.

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       pub  1024D/FEA2A3FE 2002-06-18 Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org>
The users that I support would double-click on a landmine to see what it did.
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