Warp wrote:
>   There's nothing stopping unix home directories from residing in a
> network file system, and in fact that's a very common practice in
> multiuser environments.

It works a bit differently on Windows. For example, it's the remote 
machine that checks you have permission to read your "home" directory 
instead of the local machine. (Dunno about other UNIX mounting systems, 
but NFS doesn't work that way.)  Plus, the directory gets mounted when 
you log in and dismounted when you log out, because Windows actually has 
network locking semantics for files. And, for example, Windows allows 
some home directories to be mounted locally, others to be mounted 
remotely on a variety of file servers, and there has to be some 
mechanism to tell the "client" machine which is where.

But conceptually, yeah, it's network-mounted home directories. The 
implementation is just harder to support the more complex file semantics 
Windows supports.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.

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