On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Mike Noble wrote: > On Wednesday 28 February 2007 10:17, David Mayr wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2007 17:26 schrieb ka1ifq: > > > I did some googling but did not find what I was looking for, probably > > > not using the the right terms. > > > > > > I have 2 machines A) suse 10.2 B) suse 10.1, I would like to have an > > > account on the B machine that uses / shares a home directory with an > > > account with the same name on the A machine so I can be able to read my > > > email from either. Both machines are on an internal network. I didn't > > > really want to do a remote desktop.. > > > > Why not share your /home via NFS? > > > > -- > > David Mayr, http://davey.de > > openSUSE LINUX, http://opensuse.de > > And of course you need to mount the /home from the server on the > client machines. Can either be done in /etc/fstab or with the > automounter. > > Mike
And you have to keep your uid numbers in perfect sync on both machines which can be a hassel for more than a hand full users. NFS is really pretty primitive. In most cases Its just more flexible to use samba even when all machines are linux. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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