On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 17:47, Theo Brinkman wrote: > Yes, all of the machines are Linux. Here's some more details: > > I currently have 2 machines, that I'd like to manage /home and login > info centrally. A possibly tricky point is that I'd like to have the > logins and /home managed on the server, but still be able to take the > laptop somewhere it isn't attached to the network and be able to use it. > > What I really want is to have a user log into either of the machines, > and get their home directory. At the same time, I'd like to still be > able to use the laptop when it's not attached to the network, and still > have users log into the other machine(s) on the network (I'm planning to > add 2 or 3 more linux boxes in the near future). > > I just updated the server to Mandrake 9.1, and want to do the same to > the laptop, but I don't want to have to set up the same users the same > way every time I add a system to the network. > > - Theo
Theo I'm using shfs just for this. Any box I can reach via ssh I can mount my home on that box to the box I'm on. Since it runs over ssh it's a secure tunnel and if I setup key login to the boxes It can be as automatic as I need it to be. One advantage I've found over NFS is that if a connection gets broken it doesn't freeze the box and it is easier to kill the mount. URL is http://shfs.sourceforge.net/ It builds against your kernel and builds against the current kernels easily. James <snipped below>
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