Hi, For many years I have run with NFS mounted home directories shared across the hosts in my LAN for linux hosts whilst using windows roaming profiles to a samba server to share user state across windows machines.
At various stages I have played around with roaming profiles by hacking scripts at the front and back end of the gnome-session scripts but recently I came across some software called csync that integrates into PAM to easily sync a linux profile (i.e. $HOME) to/from a samba server. The advantages of this are: (a) Speed - it is definitely noticeable in startup times of some apps (b) Robustness - my desktops are less likely to be frozen while I take the file server offline (c) Easier to play with multiple OS versions - I often run into trouble running multiple distribution versions to the same $HOME In any case, the latest version of csync is available in a PPA at https://launchpad.net/~markhannon/+archive/ppa Install libpam-csync, configure /etc/security/pam_csync.conf and /etc/pam.d/gdm and away you go! Hope it is useful to someone. Regards/Mark -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
