Migration from K12LTSP to Edubuntu for Thin Client Services

[R. Scott Belford]

Aloha All

This is my first post.  While a long-time user of debian, and a lover of 
ubuntu/edu/x/etc., I am only now setting up my first Edubuntu LTSP 
server.  If it were a new setup, it would be rather elementary, I see. 
However, we are moving from the esteemed K12LTSP, and all of our user's 
desktop preferences are served from a smbldap server.

I am wondering if any of you have encountered some of the issues we are 
seeing and can point me to a prior post or some existing documentation 
that will help.  Specifically, the edubuntu clients load the desktop, 
with wallpaper, but no applications, documents, etc.  A newly created 
user works great, and extracting a newly created users' settings into an 
existing user's home folder works too. (if you wipe all existing hidden 
files first in the existing users home folder)

It would seem that a hidden file must be deleted, or that there is a 
permission issue somewhere, but I am a bit uncertain.

I have posted something similar on another list, so please forgive my 
tenacity in trying to figure this one out if this is a duplicate issue 
for you.  I am eager to provide any information that will be helpful in 
figuring this out.  I promise to wikify what I learn.

--scott