Thanks for that you have given me a place to start, am not so tempted just to run ubuntu server and run debian and configure it all myself. Dean
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Didar Hossain <didar.hoss...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > >
