wayne roberts wrote:

James Knott wrote:

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Put your home directories on the server and use NFS to mount them on other computers. Also, unless you're running something like NIS, you'll need to make sure user names, numbers and passwords match on all systems.

so let me get this straight copy the contents of /home/* to cd/dvd, copy them onto the server in /home/ ???? and use nfs to automount the home directory on the server -> client as /home/ ??and use nis to authenticate the users

is this right and will kde/gnome work ?? wayne

I don't know why you need the CDs. You can copy over any files, via the network. Create all the users on the server, then mount the server's /home on some temporary mount point on each computer and then use cp -a to copy each user's home directory onto their directory on the server. Once you've got that done, you can mount the /home share directly over the existing home directories on the user's computers. All apps should be OK and all your settings & data will be available on all systems.