[K12OSN] Samba/LDAP and the near future

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Steve Wright wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 03:17, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
>
>  
>
>>[....] logins getting same desktop and home are another matter, 
>>particularly with T1 bandwidth and the additional performance 
>>degredation of latency site to site for the encryption of VPN.     
>>[...] Chances are 
>>this is something quite practical for a very small number of traveling 
>>people, if they would live with some performance degredation, but not 
>>practical on a large scale.
>>    
>>
>
> I have spent some time on the task of distributing
>filesystems(desktops) and basically I have drawn a blank.  You have one
>mean feat ahead of you replicating /home dirs over a T1, unless you only
>have 20 or so users.
>
> You might consider scripting an rysnc to the other site on logout - a
>poor mans' distributed Desktop..  As long as the users do not have huge
>files coming and going there should be no strife.
>
> Or you might upgrade to fibre ;-)
>  
>
For the limited number of users with T1 connections I was thinking more 
along the lines of remote login or vnc type access from alternate sites, 
not replicating home directories.