Mike Hord wrote:

>Through various machinations of those above me, I have recently
>been "reassigned" (really just had half of my time reallocated), and
>I am now responsible for a small "mobile lab" of 16 notebook PCs
>(Dells).  This is a little outside my normal realm of experience, but
>well within my capabilities.  General uses are for administering an
>exam, teaching the usage of a specialized program, or providing
>interactive documentation for a laboratory procedure.
>
>This is the first time I've ever had this kind of control over a group
>of computers that didn't belong to specific people.  I'm wondering
>if anyone can recommend a good method whereby I can alter the
>contents of one of them (Windows updates, antivirus updates, 
>the addition of programs, placing files on the desktop, etc.) and
>have the changes propagate automagically onto the other 15.
>
>They are all identical Dell D505s, which poses a small problem
>in that Dell's network drivers do not play well with others.  This
>makes doing this over a network difficult.  I really don't want to
>burn three or five CDs (or even a DVD or two) for every little
>change I make, but it wouldn't be a terrible inconvenience to, say,
>connect a USB external hard drive, boot to it, and load an image
>onto the laptop.  After all, I could be elsewhere while the image
>loads then.
>
>So, does anyone have any sage advice on this matter?
>
>Mike H.
>  
>
Ghost will allow you to image one computer to another, no question about 
it.
I THINK it works by hard disk images, but it might be possible to do it 
on a network.

--Bob

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