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On Tuesday 21 October 2003 14:12, Bill Wilson wrote: > To use multiple machines to manage eliminates a lot of the advantages of > Linux. > > We use thin client terminals then all you have to manage is servers. We have PCs... we as in organisations that might contemplate a move from Windows. I feel a gap for a How-To, which I doubt I am going to write, but possibly I know people who could. A typical NT installation will lock down users desktops quite hard, the account of the City of Largo setup demonstrates that that is also possible with Linux, using thin clients there I recall. Presently I have 4 machines on the network in the business, and I don't have anything like the replication feature of NT going on them, OTOH I don't feel a need for it, but if I had 400 machines I think I might. Linux is easier to ghost one installation and then just change a password and name and IP on each machine than is any NT-based suystem - the SID that NT generates is not supposed to be changeable and the deatils of how it is handled are supposed to be secret form users and administrators, so that is perhaps an advantage in this area. The multi-userness of *n?x should make it easier to contrive central administrative setups and monitoring for up-to-dateness of patches. Who has lots of machines on a network and a solution for administering things on them on masse? -- From the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.