[Leaplist] centrally manage Windows XP Home?

[Jason Boxman]

Kyle Gonzales wrote:
> On 9/11/07, Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
>
>> It's not possible to run a batch file or something at startup that maps
>> some
>> drives?
>
> You can try it.  It depends if Microsoft allows those actions for the
> XP Home version.

Actually just having it remember and remap existing shares at login would
work and it's doing that already.  That's all I was expecting.

>> I wouldn't think you necessarily need any special support from Windows for
>> Thunderbird to support some 'Enterprise' type stuff.
>
> No, but you will need a "Enterprise" version of Windows, and not XP
> Home.  As the name implies, it is not for corporate use, and does not
> include the full feature set as such.

The version of Windows you have ought to be entirely orthogonal to whether
you can build your own installer or post installer or some other magic that
clones the same settings at install time for Thunderbird.  Never
administrating Windows systems in my life, I can only guess; Such things
merely seem plausible.

>> Interesting -- that might be worth it.  I'll have to see how much that'll
>> cost.
>
>> That's true, but there's a substantial number of poorly written
>> applications
>> that are industry specific that must run.  I fear attempting to run those
>> under CrossOver or trying to explain why they don't "Just Work".  Moving
>> to
>> Linux desktops is an unlikely step presently.
>
> You will never know if you do not try.  Crossover has an eval period.
> It would not hurt to test it.

I agree, but I am not headed in that direction presently.