Unfortunately, it was a case where the "infrastructure" (i hesitate to even call it that) was set up long before I came into the picture. You make some very good suggestions though, and I'm going to suggest them to my boss.
I particularly like the (windows) idea of mapping certain system folders to network drives. That would work very well until we can move to a thin-client system, which is my ultimate goal.
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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