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Originally Posted by msound
hey hey! I'm currently back in an MS shop - but am really missing the linux environment of my previous employer.
We had a thin client environment where most of our users were using SunRay thin client terminals. We had 2 RHEL4 thin client servers that served up the RHEL4 desktop for the thin clients.
Users' home directories were stored on a central SAN and mounted via NFS during login. Centralized user authentication was handled by NIS and Kerberos.
We used the Zimbra Collaboration suite for email/webmail, contact management, and calendars.
We had two Windows 2003 Terminal Servers - then gave each user an IE icon on their desktop which launched rdesktop and logged them into the Windows Terminal Server and launched IE automatically.
We had a CUPS print server which shared all of the HP JetDirect Print Servers we had around the office.
We used StarOffice for documents and spreadsheets.
And when I left we were testing out CrossOver Office to get IE6 to run through wine so we could phase out the windows terminal servers all together.
God I miss that environment...
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Still too much Windows for me, so I wouldn't miss it. I miss our setup at a previous employer where all the developers had their own Linux workstation, with their /home directories via AFS and authentication done through AFS with Kerberos. I learned that if you want to do remote mounts of home directories on a central server, drop NFS and go with AFS. More redundant, faster and never failed.
AFS = Andrew File System for those not familiar with it.