...God I need Workarounds!

[Scott Bower]

All,
Please Help....

I've done as much as I can with this RH8.0 SOE but I have several problems I'm hoping to sort out relatively quickly, I'll tackle them a few at a time.

Firstly, would anyone know how to create an image from an existing user profile to be used as a start point automagically everytime a new user logs on? The user's desktop has a standard background along with several panel drawers containing a myriad of SOE Specific launchers on them, This is used in conjunction with a Solaris server/workstation environment where any of about fifty people could log onto this system at any time. Due to the Department we're in, these people rotate in and out of the section every few months making some sort of installer script a little too awkward and possibly out of the question.

Secondly, a part of this image requires mounting Windows Domain shares which are mounted from any number of servers (usually arond five to eight of the twenty or so servers) from any number of domains (somewhere in the hundreds) which is done via Perl and GTK , on attempting to umount, RedHat refuses to let go (something to do with the .trash folder) leaving the system with someone elses data mappings accessible to the next user... I asked about this before and someone wisely retorted "Oh, Just type in the required mounts in this Config file and then you can even mount them with a right click from the Desktop!" How on earth can I get around this without manually typing out tens of thousands of these possible combinations to some file somewhere? Background: This system authenticates via a Solaris (NIS) server and unfortunately the Windows Net shares require a different username/password combo, this is an issue beyond our control.


Thanks in advance,

Scott.