Re: Roaming profiles

michael lefevre wrote:
michael lefevre wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Sale wrote:
> 
>>>>Can anybody clue me in the status of roaming profiles. From bugzilla I
>>>>understood that they're expected 'in the future'; any details?
>>
>>>bug 17048
>>>Form there you can find all ther eis to know.
>>
>>Thanks for answering.
>>
>>Is there more to figer out from
>>http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17048 other than no ETA and
>>third line of priority ...
> 
> 
> no, not really... other clues are the fact that the assignee (the person
> who's working on it) is [email protected], and that it has the
> "helpwanted" keyword.  basically it's a desired feature, but none of the
> companies or developers involved in the project wants it enough to work
> on it at the moment... there won't be an ETA until someone volunteers...
> 

> In article <[email protected]>, Sale wrote:
> 
>>>>Can anybody clue me in the status of roaming profiles. From bugzilla I
>>>>understood that they're expected 'in the future'; any details?
>>
>>>bug 17048
>>>Form there you can find all ther eis to know.
>>
>>Thanks for answering.
>>
>>Is there more to figer out from
>>http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17048 other than no ETA and
>>third line of priority ...
> 
> 
> no, not really... other clues are the fact that the assignee (the person
> who's working on it) is [email protected], and that it has the
> "helpwanted" keyword.  basically it's a desired feature, but none of the
> companies or developers involved in the project wants it enough to work
> on it at the moment... there won't be an ETA until someone volunteers...
> 

As one of 10,000 fed govt users locked into Netscape/Messenger 4.79, I can say 
this is very important to us... if we are to every consider upgrading to Moz 
over Outlook. Perhaps that will get some corporate folks interested? I can't 
recommend it to management, until there is progess in these areas for the 
sysadmins & enterprise...

1. Backup and Conversion of Netscape profiles, email & settings for many users 
on a central server.
2. Support for roaming access to Profiles from Win32/Linux/Mac on central server
3. Laptop to "Home" central location Server Share profile syncronization.
4. Shift workers need various sets of profiles configured on common clients. 
  (One PC, multiple users... & ability to migrate these sets of users to new PCs)

What happened to the concepts of a "Home" directory, file locking, RCS & rsync?

Moz 1.2 Rocks, I use it at home... can't wait to deploy it at work. THANKS!

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