creating remote access CD for roaming users

[mikesb]

Heres the issue : I have a large # of remote users with DSL, all with varying random home pcs. They all want corporate remote access but I dont trust their pcs even if i gave them a vpn client, firewall and antivirus software.

Heres the idea: These users only need IE6 (some of our web apps require IE) , lotus notes, and a lotus notes instant messenger (sametime). The three aforementioend apps all work under wine and I have a vpn client for linux that works w/ our fw so....

If I booted knoppix from cd, performed a remaster by following
http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/KnoppixRemasteringHowto
and the only changes I made were add my vpn client, install IE6, Lotus Notes, and sametime in wine and copied $HOME/.wine to /etc/skel would I be good to go?

Or am I missing something? the concept seems too simple and ive not seen any other remasters along these lines so Im assuming Im missing something huge.

Any insights would be greatly appreciated before I blow a week of my life trying to figure this out and learning that its pointless...

Many thanks in advance.

[rcook]

1) Have you tried it yet?

I am a Lotus user at work and the configuration of the lotus is still a bit of legerdemain to me. There are several files and private keys which are placed in a lotus folder on the clients to identify the user to the server.

This would make me suspect the need of a 'custom' burn of the CD or a 'custom' script on a floppy for the ID of each user to Lotus

2) Does it work?

[RoadKill]

Why bother setting up all of these custom CDs when you just need to provide accounts on one server with the appz you want and have the clients tunnel in with ssh? Any standard knoppix cd will do just fine for the clients and you retain complete control.

ssh -XC user@thedomain.net

They can then invoke whatever process they need remotely.

[RoadKill]

Oh,

I forgot to mention I did this with one client who was in a similar pickle and we had them tunnel vmware sessions of win2k. I was thinking of making a gui app to simplify this for the users but keeping the bar a little higher also has its advantages :twisted: