On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 21:05, Scott Bower wrote: > Firstly, would anyone know how to create an image from an existing user > profile to be used as a start point automagically everytime a new user > logs on? The user's desktop has a standard background along with > several panel drawers containing a myriad of SOE Specific launchers on > them, This is used in conjunction with a Solaris server/workstation > environment where any of about fifty people could log onto this system > at any time. Due to the Department we're in, these people rotate in and > out of the section every few months making some sort of installer script > a little too awkward and possibly out of the question. If I read this right you wan to have a single configuration for all users on the system. Is this for creating the users? If so you can put all the configurations and directories and everything else in /etc/skel. Whatever in in there will be used to build a users hom directory. > Secondly, a part of this image requires mounting Windows Domain shares > which are mounted from any number of servers (usually arond five to > eight of the twenty or so servers) from any number of domains (somewhere > in the hundreds) which is done via Perl and GTK , on attempting to > umount, RedHat refuses to let go (something to do with the .trash > folder) leaving the system with someone elses data mappings accessible > to the next user... I asked about this before and someone wisely > retorted "Oh, Just type in the required mounts in this Config file and > then you can even mount them with a right click from the Desktop!" How > on earth can I get around this without manually typing out tens of > thousands of these possible combinations to some file somewhere? > Background: This system authenticates via a Solaris (NIS) server and > unfortunately the Windows Net shares require a different > username/password combo, this is an issue beyond our control. If I understand this right I don't see a way around having to do at least some of the work manually. You either need to make mappings or have a login script that will map things the way they need to be then a logoff script to unmap them. -- Paradise; can it be all I heard it was? I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there.
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