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Jasper Janssen wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 19:10:05 GMT, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley)
> wrote:
> > I could have a user sit at any NT workstation on our network and login
> > to have access to a home directory located anywhere I want it, then
> > move to the other end of campus and do the same thing, bringing his
> > preferences, desktop, whatever along with him.
> > Can the Mac do that? Nope.
> From what I've heard, neither can NT, really.
You haven't seen Novell's Zenworks, I take it. It allows this for NT, 95,
98, yadda yadda yadda.
http://www.novell.com/products/nds/zenworks/index.html
> Especially since IE
> tends to store its cache in user space, which then gets transported
> right around campus over the network everry time someone logs on...
> Combine that with the 10 Mb ethernet virtually all universities still
> use as their network architecture (with woefully overloaded segments,
> usually, even), and.. well, let's just say _I_ wouldn't want to field
> the complaints line.
This is actually a network design issue, not a platform issue.
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com>
http://www.io.com/~jsproat
Darth Maul Lives
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| On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 22:46:46 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote: <roving desktops> (...) Well, I was trying to make a joke. Sorry, weong group, I know. (...) The problem isn't that the network can't handle the load, it's that it shouldn't _have_ (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) From what I've heard, neither can NT, really. Especially since IE tends to store its cache in user space, which then gets transported right around campus over the network everry time someone logs on... Combine that with the 10 Mb ethernet (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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