[Samba] why join domain

[Paul Gienger]

>This is not a feature that has been asked for by any of my
>users as everyone has their own PC and work area.  This
>sounds like going part way toward a terminal server
>approach.  If I joined each PC to the domain anyway are
>there any *other* drawbacks or benefits?
>  
>
If you back up anything the roaming profiles can be a huge benifit.  
Most of our engineers are told to store no client data on their 
machines, mainly so that we have some control over who can get to the 
data.  When you couple that with roaming profiles, they have true 
ability to drop onto any desk AND if their machine dies we can just swap 
in a new one and all their data is available and safe.  Just have to 
make sure to keep the mozilla cache to 5mb ;)

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