Re: using home directory from linux server for all other linuxmachines on network

2003-03-29 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
sorry, my last message tend to be incomplete. so if the server goes down or say your case, if the cable is unplugged, then ofcourse the client freezes but as soon as the server(i.e. Host A in your case) is up every thing becomes normal.. another thing to mark out.. i was playing some songs using

Re: using home directory from linux server for all other linuxmachines on network

2003-03-29 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
yes, it does happen thatway,, but even then i never had to hard boot my client machine(in your case Host B) because i had soft mounted the /home on my client machine :-) rrs On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Jeff Lane wrote: > Oh, no... you misunderstand me.. I dont mean that the server needed to > be ha

Re: using home directory from linux server for all other linuxmachines on network

2003-03-29 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
the condition you are mentioning was also with me.. i've completed it and am happily using it. NFS can accomplish the job for the home directory and NIS for the centralized login. as for backups and fallbacks they too can be configured on them.. rrs On 27 Mar 2003, Jim Vellenga wrote: > Greet

Re: using home directory from linux server for all other linuxmachines on network

2003-03-29 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
it isn't necessary that the server need to be hard booted to get it back. pass appropriacte parameters to nfs and you are in the run. rrs On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jeff Lane wrote: > Dont ask me how to do this, because its very ugly, from what I have > heard, but you could use something like NIS to

Re: using home directory from linux server for all other linuxmachines on network

2003-03-28 Thread Anthony E. Greene
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