Hi I'm currently doing exactly this for several sites. Within Win2K and above it is possible to configure Local Group Policy Objects, so that the ALLUSERPROFILES value is pointed to %LOGONSERVER%\Software\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu
Thus when a user logs in, they see the the menus stored in their profile, overlayed by these on the Network Drives. The using the same techniques used by tools such as SMS, and InstallRite, applications are wrapped and installed onto a Network only Drive. When a user clicks on the Application Icon, pointed to by the ALLUSERPROFILE Menu tree, the application is installed. So far, we've been able to wrapp most applications this way, from vendors such as Borland, Adobe, MacroMedia and Microsoft. For details of this <http://www.appdeploy.com> has more details of how to do this. Please note this doesn't work for all applications, for instance MicroSoft Office need some neat tricks to ensure that it installs a few things which need to be on the local C: Hopes this helps Edmund -- ======================================================================== Edmund J. Sutcliffe Thoughtful Solutions; Creatively <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Implemented and Communicated <http://panic.fluff.org> +44 (0) 7976 938841 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba