[K12OSN] local devices - PCMCIA
Rob Owens
rowens at ptd.net
Thu May 17 00:46:52 UTC 2007
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:36:09PM -0500, Peter Scheie wrote:
> Why do your users want to use the local drives for storage? The whole
> point of thin clients is that everything is stored on the server so the
> admin (you) only have to worry about one machine, and the users can
> login on any client and have their files be present. The Windows/Mac
> "everyone has a full computer system" paradigm is a terrible
> architecture in this respect, wasteful, and expensive. What is it the
> users think using the local disk will do for them?
I think it's the idea that the local hard drive gets locked up in their
office at night, so they think it's more secure for their private files.
In a way they're right. I could read anything I want to that's on the
server (with root / administrator rights), but I'd have a hard time
accessing a hard drive that's in a locked office. Not that they're
trying to protect their data from me, but they understand lock-and-key
security better than network security.
-Rob
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