Category Archives: ThreePlatformsOneServer

Three Platforms, One Server Part 2: Windows and Quotas

December 5, 2005 – 7:19 PM

The ProblemSo we’ve hit a (hopefully) minor snag in our migration to a single authentication server for all platforms. It’s, of course, a problem with Windows and its roaming profiles system. Roaming profiles for Windows are like networked home accounts for Mac. The idea is simple: Your home account is stored on a networked file [...]

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Three Platforms, One Server Part 1: Planning, Testing, Building

December 1, 2005 – 6:11 PM

BackgroundAs I’ve said probably a thousand-billion times, I work in a very multi-platform environment. Our lab consists of Mac, Windows and Linux workstations, all of which rely, in some form or another, on a centralized home account server. Currently, the way this works is problematic in several ways: Each platform — Mac, Windows, Linux — [...]

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