Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3785 mails)

[Nick LeRoy <nleroy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 21 October 2003 9:49 am, John Pettigrew wrote:
> I have a spare PC (my old work PC) that I'd like to set up downstairs so
> that we can log in to check email etc. while the other person's working on
> the main PC. To keep configs etc. as easy as possible, I'd like to log into
> the main PC from the spare PC, using the userid and home dir from the main
> machine, but to run all apps etc. on the spare PC (a smart terminal, I
> guess).
>
> Is this easy to set up using SUSE 8.2 on both machines? How should I go
> about it? Network is already done - it's the logging in and setting up the
> session that I don't know about.

John,

Let's see...  I'd probably:

1. Set up your main PC as an NFS server, export /home
2a. NFS Mount /home on the spare PC
2b. -or- Use the automounter (amd) to mount /home/foo when user foo logs in
3. Setup an NIS server on the main PC
4. Setup an NIS client on the spare PC

That should handle most of it.  SuSE makes most of this pretty easy.  :-)

-Nick

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