On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 21:43, Anne Wilson wrote: > When installing v.9.0 I considered sharing the existing /home directory, > which I was told is possible. However, I then realised that I would be > likely to cause version conflicts in the various dot file/directories unless > I registered as a different user. Then I considered what I would have to do > about the existing other users - problems. > > The other users never log on directly, but need access from their windows > machines over samba, partly for filesharing and partly for backup of their > work. > > Possible solution - clean install with new /home, mount old home as /oldhome, > copy their data only onto the new setup.
If you recreated the users in the new installation, and mounted their "old" /home dirs just to copy the data into the "new" /home dirs - the only foreseeable problem I can envision is permissions. Changing the permissions per each /home/XXuser recursively and having them map via SAMBA to these /home dirs wouldn't appear to be a problem - but I could be wrong. > a) Will I be able to mount the old home in this way, or will 9.0 insist that > I already have a /home? They will not be on the same hdd, if that makes any > difference (don't see why it would). If you mount the "old" /home elsewhere and rename it, *nix shouldn't complain - it's already mounting a /home directory, so no matter what the structure, mounting as a different name wouldn't really matter. > b) Any other comments? Anything I need to think more about? Nice to see sysadmins thinking about their users... > Anne Stephen -- Sun Nov 17 05:20:00 EST 2002 -------------------------------- | __ __ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;"""/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " |linux user:267497 -------------------------------- I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind. -- Kahlil Gibran
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