Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2634 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Mike Noble wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 February 2007 10:17, David Mayr wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2007 17:26 schrieb ka1ifq:
> > >       I did some googling but did not find what I was looking for, probably
> > > not using the  the right terms.
> > >
> > >       I have 2 machines A) suse 10.2 B) suse 10.1, I would like to have an
> > > account on the B machine that uses / shares a home directory with an
> > > account with the same name on the A machine so I can be able to read my
> > > email from either. Both machines are on an internal network. I didn't
> > > really want to do a remote desktop..
> >
> > Why not share your /home via NFS?
> >
> > --
> > David Mayr,  http://davey.de
> > openSUSE LINUX,  http://opensuse.de
>
> And of course you need to mount the /home from the server on the
> client  machines.  Can either be done in /etc/fstab or with the
> automounter.
>
> Mike

And you have to keep your uid numbers in perfect sync on both machines
which can be a hassel for more than a hand full users.

NFS is really pretty primitive.  In most cases Its just more flexible to use
samba even when all machines are linux.

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John Andersen