[K12OSN] IE requirement

[Patrick Mohr]

Les Bell wrote:

>jam at mcquil.com wrote:
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>Why does mozilla's roaming profiles not work ?
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>Ahh, Grasshopper, let me bring you enlightenment. You are assuming I'm
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>talking about a K12LTSP system, but unfortunately this school has not found
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>the one true way yet. They have Windows machines around the school, but
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>I've set up a Samba/Apache/TikiWiki server with Windows roaming profiles.
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>As you say, on a Unix system, the Mozilla profile - and indeed, profiles
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>for other applications, too - is stored in the user's home directory. But
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>Netscape 7.1 for Windows stores the profile in "C:\Program
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>Files\Netscape\Users\username", so of course, the profiles stay on the
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>machine, rather than going with the user's stuff to the Samba server
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>profile share.
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>I haven't looked at how Mozilla Firefox handles it - I have it installed on
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>this Win2K notebook, but haven't found its profile storage yet. If it
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>stores it in the user's profile, I'll be happy to switch from IE. But to be
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>honest, the tools available for a network roll-out of IE (the IEAK), plus
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>the way it works with roaming profiles, are way ahead of Netscape et al.
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>That really frosts me, but it's the way it is. . .
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>Best,
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Firefox should work fine with roaming profiles because it stories 
evrything in C:\Documents and Settings\User_Name\Application 
Data\Phoenix , but mozilla NOW stores evrything but plugins in 
C:\Documents and Settings\User_Name\Application Data\Mozilla .  I know 
that this was not always the case.