On 23 Dec 2002 at 15:44, Sudev Barar wrote:

> Next step is to link machines so that I can get single point authentication 
> for all users. Right now I have addusers on each machine under linux and as I 
> move more machines to Linux this is going to be cumbersome. How do I set up 
> users database on one machine and setup other machines to look-up for 
> authentication??

Use ldap. Mandrake has out of box support of ldap authnetication, don't know 
for other distros.

> AND how do I share specific directories across the machines? Meaning if user 
> "A" has his home directory on machine X then even while working on machine Y 
> he should still be able to access his home??? Something like samba for win 
> stations.

Smaba will do, so will NFS. Even http with webdav could be an option..

Bye
 Shridhar

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