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Deep Freeze might be what you are looking for. It isn't free or open source and I haven't used it myself but I have heard excellent things about it. In short, you get your system setup the way you want it, then "freeze" it so any damage done by spyware/viruses/trainees can be undone with a simple reboot. With the pro and enterprise versions it allows for patches to be installed, etc. I'm not sure how Deep Freeze handles static space, but it's worth checking out. http://www.faronics.com/html/deepfreeze.asp?version=education - Peter -----Original Message----- From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Matthew R Farra Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:53 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [MSUNAG] Imaging/Managing lab machines? I was wondering what the members of the list are using for managing teaching labs. We have a 15-seat training lab that we use Ghost to periodically return to a clean state. This system works fine, but requires a fair amount of time to create the images and deploy them. What do you use? Are there any open-source/free alternatives? Ideally, I'd like to be able to set something up that would return the systems to a clean state at a preset interval, or possibly at login. Deploying Microsoft patches, virus software updates, etc would also be an issue. Another issue would be how to maintain some kind of static file space so that users attending a multi-day course could save their files and still have access to them after a system refresh. Would another partition on the system be the best way to handle this? AFS space? Any thoughts on this topic would be very helpful and greatly appreciated. Thanks, Matt Farra -- /-------------------/-------------------/-------------------/--------------- ----/ Matthew Farra Microcomputer Hardware/Software Coordinator Remote Sensing & GIS Research and Outreach Services, Michigan State University email: [log in to unmask] - phone: 517.432.3720 - fax: 517.353.1821 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.7 - Release Date: 2/10/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.7 - Release Date: 2/10/2005