James Sparenberg wrote:
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
How fast is it?
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