RE: Home users with VPN connections

["Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>]

> From: "Brent Woodard" <bwoodard () omniva com>
> Here's the big management headache on this solution:
>
> Is the enduser going to bring their workstation in so you can build
> the software config?  You need to install whatever OS you have with
> the appropriate hardware.  Are you going to be responsible for
> maintaining drivers for 300 different PCs for 300 different users?
> This is a scenario not out of the realm of possibility for a large
> company.

Hmm, that would be kind of nasty, but you should be able to write an 
unattended install script for them, and just have them slap in your HDD, put 
in the CD and boot.  Once it's done, they connect to the corporate network 
and it auto-installs any other necessary software.  Another thought would be 
to use something like Knoppix that has an entire OS contained on the CD.

> And what about a boot manager? What are you going to use there?

Don't use one.  Use removeable hard drives.

> Once you open the Pandora's box of supporting users home
> workstations, you open the way for a whole set of support nightmare
> headaches.  Bad business for an IS staff trying to keep costs
> down....

If you have home users, you're already supporting them.

Chris Berry
compjma () hotmail com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

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