If all machines are Linux then NIS and NFS will do exactly what you want and is very easy to setup. If you are wanting to share files with Micro*&$) then you will want to add Samba to the list. Samba is also very easy to setup with Mandrake. At least all these work very well under 9.0. If you want to keep Linux and Samba passwords in sync you will want to make your NIS Master and the Samba Server the same machine so that Samba can sync the passwords. You also want to put Samba on the File server.
I belive LDAP is a bit more than you want for just a few machines. Mike On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 15:29, Theo Brinkman wrote: > I've got a few machines at home that I'd like to set up to share users > so I don't have to keep files & passwords in sync across multiple boxes. > > I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this. Fact is, as an admin, > I'm a newbie, and I don't even know where to start looking for info on > how to do this. > > I have read that you can make samba act as a windows domain controller, > which would do the trick if necessary, but I pretty much only use Linux > at home (no current windows boxes). > > I had thought that LDAP might be a route to handle this, but I can't > even find a source on configuring LDAP that I can understand. (I'm a > bit sleep deprived right now, so that probably isn't helping.) > > Can anybody help me out or point me in the right direction? Thansk. > > - Theo > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Michael Noble mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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