Deep Freeze is a pretty slick product... it truly locks down the hard drive. Lets the user do anything he wants install, delete whatever...then on reboot everything is back. Not really sure how it works, someone mentioned interrupt 13 and that it appears to do what you want but on reboot all is back. It is designed to be security software but they have added a bunch of utilities that make it look more like SMS or Ghost...I used it at Plattsburgh State in NY. It was about $35 a unit then ... not sure what it is now.
Off-topic, sorry, but just to explain to others....relatively quickly. Michael J Barber Computer Services Administrator WPTZ/WNNE Heart-Argyle Television p 518-561-5555 x563 m 518-572-6639 f 518-561-5940 Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/24/2005 01:45 PM To: cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] System Imaging > I am using Samba 3.0.20pre1 as a DC and I want to know if there is > something similar to Deep Freeze www.faronics.com (except open source) > for Linux. Deep Freeze automatically compares the software installation > on a client machine to an image on a server. If the client machine > differs, the client is automatically synced with the server. I want to > achieve this with Samba and a linux tool if possible. I don't know what Deep Freeze is, but you can achieve a similar result to one that you describe with WPKG - http://wpkg.org Depending on how you configure it, it is able to install and/or remove software on your workstations (according to the setup on the server side - in this case it would be Samba). So for example, you can configure it so that all clients (or groups of your clients) set up to use it will have Acrobat, Firefox etc. installed, and some other software deinstalled (for example, if you no longer need to use Photoshop). If you combine it with Unattended - http://unattended.sf.net - you will have self-repairing network (like they write it on www.faronics.com - "A simple restart restores your workstations down to the last bit and byte."). -- Tomek -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba