Mirroring software, files and user accounts between machines

likwid

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Hi,

How do I go about mirroring installed software between three pc's? I want to be able to install/uninstall/update software on one computer and have it appear on the others. Mirroring user files and accounts aren't really important, but of course wouldn't be a hindrance.
 
Are these machines standalone or on a domain? Are they networked? Standalones you could have a startup script that calls other scripts on a network to install software. If its a domain you could just use GPO.
 
Thanks for the reply. They're all on a LAN but that's all I can tell you as I haven't got a clu about networking. Let's say I want a user account with its software and files accessible from any of the machines.
 
Basically sounds like you are wanting to set up 1 server and have terminal services set up on the other two.

Its not going to be too simple if your not to clued up in windows server though.
 
I'm pretty good at programming so no technophobe but network admin I've never studied. I'll have a look for a tutorial but maybe it's not going to be worth the bother. How much time do you think this would take to set up?
 
Or if you want the simple approach but not sure if it's what you want.

Create logins on all 3 machines
Create a sky drive login for each user
Install sky drive on all machines
Select the folders you want each sky drive login to sync

That's all I do and it syncs all my work docs across 3 different pcs.
 
In general software is kept the same on multiple Windows PCs via imaging, or software deployment via Group Policy or System Centre for example. Neither of which really makes any sense when you're only talking about 3 PCs as the effort involved would be more than just installing it manually.

I can't think of a way to synchronise users, unless you're using a domain server.

As for files, you could use command line/a script which mirrors the files over your network, e.g.

robocopy source destination /MIR

Or there is file synchronisation software if you're not into the command line stuff.
 
@kidloco Definitely could be useful except this wouldn't work with software. Maybe I just have to install the software separately on each machine.

@chriscubed. Thanks very much for the information. It sounds like more hassle than it's worth really.

Thanks again.
 
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