[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

[Kai Krakow]

Am Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:48:57 +0100
schrieb lee <lee@××××××××.de>:

> Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com> writes:
>
> > Am Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:52:30 +0100
> > schrieb lee <lee@××××××××.de>:
> >
> >> Is WSUS of any use without domains?  If it is, I should take a
> >> look at it.
> >
> > You can use it with and without domains. What domains give you
> > through GPO is just automatic deployment of the needed registry
> > settings in the client.
> >
> > You can simply create a proper .reg file and deploy it to the
> > clients however you like. They will connect to WSUS and receive
> > updates you control.
> >
> > No magic here.
>
> Sounds good :)  Does it also solve the problem of having to make
> settings for all users, like when setting up a MUA or Libreoffice?
>
> That means settings on the same machine for all users, like setting up
> seamonkey so that when composing an email, it's in plain text rather
> than html, a particular email account every user should have and a
> number of other settings that need to be the same for all users.  For
> Libreoffice, it would be the deployment of a macro for all users and
> some making some settings.

Well... Depends on the software. Some MUAs may store their settings to
the registry, others to files. You'll have to figure out - it should
work. Microsoft uses something like that to auto-deploy Outlook
profiles to Windows domain users if an Exchange server is installed.
Thunderbird uses a combination of registry and files. You could deploy
a preconfigured Thunderbird profile to the users profile dir, then
configure the proper profile path in the registry. Firefox works the
same: Profile directory, reference to it in the registry.

I think LibreOffice would work similar to MS Office: Just deploy proper
files after figuring out its path. I once deployed OpenOffice macros
that way to Linux X11 terminal users.

-- 
Regards,
Kai

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