One way is to use NIS or equivalent distributed authentication system, NFS-mounted home directories, and use of the NIS-based automounter. Use of Kerberos and OpenAFS is another.
The Oreilly NIS book has a complete and detailed example of how to set this up with NIS. The OpenAFS documentation shows how to configure AFS clients and servers, and set up the necessary infrastructure to do this with AFS. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Rod > Furey > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: OT: Replacing Win NT machines > > > I beg the indulgence of the list for this question. Please forgive me. > > Lots of us have probably seen the situation where an IT department > has Win/NT workstations and a Win/NT server. You go up to any > PC, select the domain, enter your userid and p/w and then login. > You can then logout, go to any other PC in the building, enter > the same info and login on that PC, thereby getting your profile > and access to your private files on that PC. > > Q: What's the Linux equivalent? > > I've had a look round linuxvm.org and tried a few web searches but > not come up with anything. Ideas or pointers to papers that describe > someone who's done this very welcome. > > Ta muchly. > > Rod >
