On 2016-03-30 13:01, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 03/30/2016 07:15 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
With Win 95 I typically used a different partition for the Documents folder. Suprisingly, it is not that simple to do with current versions; aparently, you have to do it for each user.
I recall advocating this at various clients for their IT people to do and, yes, it was not as easy as with *NIX and yes it had to be done for each user.
Later, when Microsoft supported corporate (aka "pro"?) versions and Windows Server (though some clients preferred SAMBA on BigIron UNIX for transparency and reliability and scalability [as well as cost effectiveness]) there were ... what was it called, "roaming shares", so people cold do what we always did with SUN workstations back in the early 1980s, and log in from anywhere and get our "home" mounted (using NFS) on the particular workstation we were using.
That worked because the things in your home directory were things that you wanted to share on all machines, like your .bashrc But the whole model is broken now that platform-specific apps tend to keep their private data in dot directories in your home. So you can't share your home directory across platforms, which then means mounting the shared home somewhere else and symlinking all the locations of local home with documents etc to subdirectories of the shared home. It's a complete pain and would work much better if platform-specific data were held in a different place, with a symlink from home: e.g. /home/user/platform-specific-data => /var/home/user/platform-xyz-01 So all my display-related options were in a local directory on that machine. Then I could go back to NFS-mounting /home directly. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org