Roaming User Profiles

[Christian Müller]

Am Dienstag, 18. Juni 2002 22:33 schrieb Kevin Krammer:
> On Tuesday, 18. June 2002 22:17, Dolson,Joan \[PYR\] wrote:
> > Our users move to different Linux workstations frequently depending on
> > which "desk" they are manning on a particular day. They would like to
> > save their KDE desktop settings and retrieve them on whichever machine
> > they are using for the day so that their applications automatically
> > start up on the particular KDE desktop and position that they like. We
> > are using Red Hat Linux 7.2 with KDE 2.2-10 and the applications they
> > run are non-KDE apps. We have about 25 users who rotate between 8
> > workstations and only one administrator so we would like to find a way
> > to centralize saving and retrieving the desktop settings.
>
> If the logon to machines on the same network, you can easily have the
> home directories on a server and mount them vai NFS.
>
> User specific settings of programs are always saved to the suers home
> directory, so this is independend of KDE.

But is there a way the secure this against concurrent accesses, 
e.g. if one user is logged into two workstations at once?  
Wouldn't there otherwise be a certain risk of data corruption? 

Cheers, 
Christian.


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