I was wondering if it is possible to have my users of my home network
have a "home" directory that points to the server? Currently I am using
pamlib to auto mount some shares from my server and I was thinking maybe
I could use it to do the same thing. What I would like is for each user
to have access to his home directory no matter what machine they log in
on. Since we are all using Linux, we don't have to use Samba do we?

Thanks,
-Eric


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On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 07:59:57PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote:
> I was wondering if it is possible to have my users of my home network have
> a "home" directory that points to the server?

I think this is commonly done.

> Currently I am using pamlib
> to auto mount some shares from my server and I was thinking maybe I could
> use it to do the same thing. What I would like is for each user to have
> access to his home directory no matter what machine they log in on.

i've not done, it so salt accordingly. The only potential problem I
could see would be if the machines are configured differently and some
version change in some software casues a problem. You might want to go
all the way to running a terminal server where *everything* resides on
the server.

> Since
> we are all using Linux, we don't have to use Samba do we?
>

nope.

A

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On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 07:59:57PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote:
> I was wondering if it is possible to have my users of my home network have
> a "home" directory that points to the server?

I think this is commonly done.

> Currently I am using pamlib
> to auto mount some shares from my server and I was thinking maybe I could
> use it to do the same thing. What I would like is for each user to have
> access to his home directory no matter what machine they log in on.

i've not done, it so salt accordingly. The only potential problem I
could see would be if the machines are configured differently and some
version change in some software casues a problem. You might want to go
all the way to running a terminal server where *everything* resides on
the server.

> Since
> we are all using Linux, we don't have to use Samba do we?
>

nope.

A

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One option is to make /home on the server an NFS share, and mount it
as /home on the clients. Then you just have to make sure the user
IDs on the clients are the same as on the servers -- if you have more
than a few users, this is a good application for NIS.

This is precisely how the computer lab I maintain works.




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One option is to make /home on the server an NFS share, and mount it
as /home on the clients. Then you just have to make sure the user
IDs on the clients are the same as on the servers -- if you have more
than a few users, this is a good application for NIS.

This is precisely how the computer lab I maintain works.




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