I wonder if the kiosk method is the way to go...

I'm building a network for a charitable organisation and in doing so migrating them away from windoze. There are about twenty users but only six computers. Users are on the computers only sporadically and no user has "their own" computer. But I want each user to have their own login, home directories and desktop no matter what PC they're on. I think this is called roaming profiles in MS windoze land.

For user validation I intend to use LDAP however I'm a bit stuck on how to put all the users home dir's onto the SMP server. I was wondering if Kiosk was the way to go. Trouble is; all of the files in /var such as mail and locks. Obviously each user will need a unique user number: 501, 502, 503 etc.

If you have a situation like this and can give some pointers as to how these ideas can be accomplished I'd be grateful for your input.

The work I'm doing for this group is also voluntary as they are a charity. The PC's are mostly P4 Dells. The distro is Mandriva 2008.1.

Peter

For user home directories you can probably use Samba or NFS. You could probably use a system such as IMAP for email access ( Courier or Cyrus ).

Kiosk is for restricting a KDE session.