Re: Using networked home directories

2007-08-07 Thread David Brodbeck
One option is to make /home on the server an NFS share, and mount it as /home on the clients. Then you just have to make sure the user IDs on the clients are the same as on the servers -- if you have more than a few users, this is a good application for NIS. This is precisely how the compu

Re: Using networked home directories

2007-08-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 07:59:57PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > I was wondering if it is possible to have my users of my home network have > a "home" directory that points to the server? I think this is commonly done. > Currently I am using pamlib > to auto mount some shares from my server a

Using networked home directories

2007-08-07 Thread Eric A. Bonney
I was wondering if it is possible to have my users of my home network have a "home" directory that points to the server? Currently I am using pamlib to auto mount some shares from my server and I was thinking maybe I could use it to do the same thing. What I would like is for each user to hav