On Friday 28 March 2003 04:28 am, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > On 27-Mar-2003/20:47 -0500, Jim Vellenga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have several Linux machines running on my home network. At this point > >every user has their own home directory on each machine and would need > >to transfer files from one home to another to get them on the other > >machine. What I want to do, but don't know how to do, is have the home > >directories of all the users be hosted on the main server so no matter > >which machine they log in from, they will have access to their files. I > >would guess that I would need some sort of fall back if the server were > >to be down for one reason or another, but this sort of setup would allow > >me to easily backup people's information onto cd's by just having to > >back up the /home on the server. > > > >Thinking about this, I would probably need to centralize the password > >and user information as well, and that would definitely need a fall back > >so that users could log onto the local machine even if the server was > >down for one reason or another. > > You may want to be careful about application versions because they will > all write their user settings into the same home directory. If you're > running different versions of KDE, GNOME, Mozilla, or whatever on differnt > machines, the config files may not be compatible across versions.
What about: for each client computer, create a mount point under the /home/username, something like /home/username/data, and then mount ~/data to the NFS server. In the NFS server, this can be /home/username That way, for each client machine, the config stuff still independent of the each other, since the config stuff is usually at /home/username/.* But the all the personal files or whatever needs to be transferaable across network is stored in the same location in the main (NFS) server, which is mounted in /home/username/data on each client computer. RDB -- ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. ------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
