<div dir="ltr">Rob, I am usually a silent member of this list. However this is very close to what I am trying to do, to set up a work client for an otherwise Windows network. I have had some success in using Sabayon to do some of what you mention Install Sabayon System Administration - User profile editor Add a profile Create Icons, change settings etc Set profile for all users. I'm not sure this includes proxy server settings ( I could also do with knowing how to do this for all users ) Unfortunately I did some of this and it worked, I then went back in and it kept crashing when saving changes. Also with the other issue I'm struggling with I managed to corrupt my sudoers file on my test virtual machine, so have had to go back to a backup and am still redoing things The other issue is I want to map windows network drives when a user logs in, probably by putting a script in /etc/profile.d Drives are for example \\server\users\username or \\server\data so I need to run comands like sudo mount -t cifs -o user=collind,domain=windowsdomain,password=password //server/data gdrive. <div dir="ltr">The problem is the sudo, as the windows domain user will not be a sudoer Hence my unsuccesful attemps so far at enabling /bin/mount for all users in the sudoers file. Been trying with user ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/mount, /bin/umount I am using 8.04.1 and Likewise I see you posted this a while back, so hopefully you have had some success now, I'de be interested in hearing your findings and other words of wisdom anybody else has. </div>Regards Duncan ******************************************************************************************** Hi folks, I'm in the process of trying to roll out Ubuntu across one of our offices as a replacement to Windows XP.  At the moment on Windows XP we have a standard desktop which includes desktop background, Internet Explorer proxy settings and other tweaks. Now rather than have the hassle of setting up each individual users desktop when they first login I was hoping it would be possible to set a default desktop configuration for each new user. I just wondered if it was possible? What I was looking at doing was setting up Ubuntu to authenticate against the Windows 2003 Server (so I don't have to create a bunch of individual accounts too) and have their home directories mount to their user directory on the server. I vaguely remember reading something about default settings in /etc/skel but after looking in that directory I see there are just some default files for bash.  Is it possible to put a set of default files in to /etc/skel and is there any specific configuration files I need? Ta, Rob</div>