[K12OSN] Samba/LDAP and the near future

[Steve Wright]

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 07:25, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
> 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.


either you or I are substantially missing the point.  I will assume it
is me and withdraw.