I have a similar setup at home except instead of a dedicated disk server I just picked a machine that wasn't too busy and had some free space and exported /home and /var/spool/mail to my other two machines.
I quickly realized I needed nis as well to keep uids/gids in sync. I just went by the NFS/NIS howtos and the redhat/debian yp*/nis packages and had no real problems. One interesting side effect is that netscape and afterstep (and other things I imagine) stores state information in a users home directory that causes a few oddities when running X sessions on two machines at the same time on different boxes. as a temporary kludge I just linked ~khill/.netscape to /opt/local/khill/.netscape on each machine I use it... there should be a better approach, though... -kevin On Tue, 26 May 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > My personal linux network has been up and running for a while, but it's > getting to be a pain to have several computers with home directories on > each ... so I'm debating building a disk server. Any ideas how one goes > about this on a small scale (I don't need a huge raid stack...) > > Will > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | > | PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey | > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | > | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | > | --The Barenaked Ladies, "Blame It On Me" | > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------ > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
