Working remotely.

2002-12-29 Thread lewiz
Hi, This may have come up before but I've not found anything after searching Google that quite satisfies the question. I run my laptop on my network during evenings but during the daytime I attend college, where I really need to access my documents, mail, etc. Is there any method of

Re: Working remotely.

2002-12-29 Thread richard childers / kg6hac
Lewiz, Reading your questions, I am left unclear as to whether the NFS, NIS/YP, and server are at home, or at work. However, I'll try to answer your questions, based on about 15 years of administering these sorts of setups. I have considered writing a script that uses rsync to synchronize the

Re: Working remotely.

2002-12-29 Thread Eric De Mund
lewiz, ] This may have come up before but I've not found anything after ] searching Google that quite satisfies the question. ] ] I run my laptop on my network during evenings but during the daytime I ] attend college, where I really need to access my documents, mail, etc. ] Is there any method

Re: Working remotely.

2002-12-29 Thread lewiz
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 01:26:41PM -0800, Eric De Mund wrote: lewiz, ] This may have come up before but I've not found anything after ] searching Google that quite satisfies the question. ] ] I run my laptop on my network during evenings but during the daytime I ] attend college, where I

Re: Working remotely.

2002-12-29 Thread lewiz
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 01:19:03PM -0800, richard childers / kg6hac wrote: Reading your questions, I am left unclear as to whether the NFS, NIS/YP, and server are at home, or at work. Sorry, I have the NFS, NIS/YP stuff at home. The question then becomes, which is the master and which is the

Re: Working remotely.

2002-12-29 Thread richard childers / kg6hac
Lewiz notes: I would recommend creating a login which we will call your 'off-campus', 'roving', or 'disconnected' login. This login has a UID and GID of N, and a home directory of, say, /local/home/roving. To begin with when I read this I thought you must have been smoking something. I was

Re: Working remotely.

2002-12-29 Thread Eric De Mund
lewiz, ] ] Is there any method of synchronizing the laptop with the server? ] ] Unison might meet some of your needs: ] ] This sounds like exactly what I was looking for. I am even happier to ] find it in the ports and I'm getting it installed now. ] ] Many thanks for this piece of advice