[opensuse] Mobile Homes
Hi, Is it possible to make with OpenSuSE what Apple calls Mobile Homes: Mobile Home Directories will allow users to centrally manage the home directories of their portable Mac clients and yet allow each user online and offline access from the office and the road. When a user goes offline, her home directory goes with her, so she can continue to work just as she would back at the office. In addition, the user's public folder remains accessible to the network while she’s away, so her co-workers can still drop files into her folder as well as see her public files. When the user reconnects her iBook or PowerBook to the network, Tiger server will automatically syncs up the home directory with the one on the server. Re Phil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Philip Mötteli wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to make with OpenSuSE what Apple calls Mobile Homes:
Mobile Home Directories will allow users to centrally manage the home directories of their portable Mac clients and yet allow each user online and offline access from the office and the road. When a user goes offline, her home directory goes with her, so she can continue to work just as she would back at the office. In addition, the user's public folder remains accessible to the network while she’s away, so her co-workers can still drop files into her folder as well as see her public files. When the user reconnects her iBook or PowerBook to the network, Tiger server will automatically syncs up the home directory with the one on the server.
If I'm reading your message correctly, you're simply asking about syncing files. Yes, Linux can do that. There are several methods, including rsync. The KDE desktop also shows to file sync apps, under Utilities>Sync -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Mobile Homes is SIMILAR but not the same as Windows Briefcase - there is more automation to Mobile Homes, and also more automation than rsync and KDE syncing. The issue is syncing files on BOTH ends, which people often overlook. Here's a short tutorial: http://aplawrence.com/Basics/rsync.html You'll hit problems with too many files on a Suse system. Mobile Homes actually does a set of directories, one of them public on the home server. Also, Mobile Homes automatically syncs up files when you reconnect, whereas the utilities in OpenSuse, including syncing utilities are typically manual. RP James Knott wrote:
If I'm reading your message correctly, you're simply asking about syncing files. Yes, Linux can do that. There are several methods, including rsync. The KDE desktop also shows to file sync apps, under Utilities>Sync
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Mobile Homes is SIMILAR but not the same as Windows Briefcase - there is more automation to Mobile Homes, and also more automation than rsync and KDE syncing. The issue is syncing files on BOTH ends, which people often overlook.
Try unison.
Here's a short tutorial:
http://aplawrence.com/Basics/rsync.html
You'll hit problems with too many files on a Suse system.
What "problems"?
Mobile Homes actually does a set of directories, one of them public on the home server. Also, Mobile Homes automatically syncs up files when you reconnect, whereas the utilities in OpenSuse, including syncing utilities are typically manual.
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