[Setup-tool-hackers] Different versions of GNOME coexisting in thesame network.

["Matthews, John" <JMatthews LIO AACISD com>]

Hello,

	I'm trying to understand how I can configure GNOME login scripts to
work nicely with different versions of GNOME.  My problem is that we have a
network consisting of Red Hat 6.2 and Red Hat 7.2 machines.  We are using
NIS/NFS so that users may log onto any machine and have access to all of
their settings and files.  The machines are running the default versions of
GNOME they were distributed with.  Therefore when an a user from a Red Hat
7.2 machine logs into a Red Hat 6.2 machine, they're settings are incorrect,
and they generally have a difficult time opening applications, or doing
anything.  These machines are used for software testing, so we need to keep
each distribution as unmodified as possible, otherwise I would consider
bringing all the machines up to the same version of GNOME.

	I'd like to know if it's possible to write a script file that will
automatically detect which version of GNOME they are logging into and then
redirect them to using configuration files for that particular version of
GNOME, or maybe this is a common problem and a cleaner solution already
exists?

	I'd also like to ask for any pointers to information which would
help me to write a script to accomplish this.  I've already asked quite a
few different groups, and it seems like my only solution may be to write a
custom script.



	Thank you,
	John Matthews
	JMatthews@lio.aacisd.com


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