I have been playing around with an idea recently and thought that I might run it past a few of your great minds. (!) I have been getting up to speed with XP and found it to be very reliable and sound, so far. - We have a lot of existing Windows software used for demanding graphical requirements and need to run this on a stable platform. Connecting these graphical computers to RM 2.4 is giving a lot of setup issues. I found a link the otherday, saying how XP can have user configs setup like in NT, ie the 'limited' template can be overwritten. http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxppusrm.htm Now, digging through my flagged up forum stuff, I tracked down something from about a month ago which adds another piece to my jigsaw: " Last summer, as an alternative to spending £1200 on a couple of new drives for our netserver (twin 350 PII & 512MB, NT4) I cobbled together a couple of K6-500 (512MB) under SuSE. Logons are via NT4 until next summer, but the files are now served from Linux. The network speed has gone up - W95 logons (including the behemoth scripts) is down from 2 minutes+ to 30 seconds at peak times. Not perception, but a measured improvement only partly accounted for by load sharing ;) Incidentally, the general reliability of the network is right up - and we havn't crashed NT4 once this year (unlike previous years!) Rgards, Paul Ellison " What I am thinking is this: There may be a better method, as this makes add on bits a chore, but, I know that I can use Norton Ghost to create fat-client clones, ie with no RM 'application' build problems, then stream these as complete XP workstations. The problem is that when I verify the global user against that stored on the RM server it will no doubt pick up all the RM tweaks as well. Can I create an intermediary server using some kind of Linux flavour that would authenticate the logon then fetch the user's work files from the RM server which is global to the school? How do I set the XP user configs too, on the Linux box? What does the 'team' think? Best Regards Bruce Miller.