On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Dean Chester <dean.g.ches...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I've been asked to set up a network of between 6 and 10 computers, using > linux yet i don't know what to do. I've decided to allocate 2 as servers and > because we have to run our network with in another network so we are hoping > to run the 1 server as a copy of the other one just it will be sitting > outside of the firewall(not allowed to open other ports on the firewall) so > we can access documents at home, i'm thinking of running a webdav server to > do that part.. Now the main problem how would i go about configuring the > workstations to allow home directries on any computer so users do not have > to have specific computers and they can go in and use any freely avaliable > machine. I am open to another suggestions.
NIS+NFS used to be a popular setup for roaming users. Now, NIS is being replaced by LDAP. However, I have no experience with LDAP much so can't tell you much. The old NIS-howto and NFS-howto documents are what I had referred to get the NIS+NFS thing going. Maybe you it could still help. HTH, Didar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
