I currently have 2 machines, that I'd like to manage /home and login info centrally. A possibly tricky point is that I'd like to have the logins and /home managed on the server, but still be able to take the laptop somewhere it isn't attached to the network and be able to use it.
What I really want is to have a user log into either of the machines, and get their home directory. At the same time, I'd like to still be able to use the laptop when it's not attached to the network, and still have users log into the other machine(s) on the network (I'm planning to add 2 or 3 more linux boxes in the near future).
I just updated the server to Mandrake 9.1, and want to do the same to the laptop, but I don't want to have to set up the same users the same way every time I add a system to the network.
- Theo
Michael Noble wrote:
If all machines are Linux then NIS and NFS will do exactly what you want and is very easy to setup.
If you are wanting to share files with Micro*&$) then you will want
to add Samba to the list. Samba is also very easy to setup with
Mandrake. At least all these work very well under 9.0. If you want to keep Linux and Samba passwords in sync you will want to make your NIS Master and the Samba Server the same machine so that Samba can sync the passwords. You also want to put Samba on the File
server.
I belive LDAP is a bit more than you want for just a few machines.
Mike
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 15:29, Theo Brinkman wrote:
I've got a few machines at home that I'd like to set up to share users so I don't have to keep files & passwords in sync across multiple boxes.
I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this. Fact is, as an admin, I'm a newbie, and I don't even know where to start looking for info on how to do this.
I have read that you can make samba act as a windows domain controller, which would do the trick if necessary, but I pretty much only use Linux at home (no current windows boxes).
I had thought that LDAP might be a route to handle this, but I can't even find a source on configuring LDAP that I can understand. (I'm a bit sleep deprived right now, so that probably isn't helping.)
Can anybody help me out or point me in the right direction? Thansk.
- Theo
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