Pete
Hmmmm I was thinking more like NFS, although I recollect a thread on this very subject -I must check
Umm ... what you ought to do with Linux and Unix in general as Jeremy Allison says ... is that you shouldn't trust your applications or clients. If you want to use Samba over the net the more usual thing is SSL. Which I should have mentioned. NFS is the kind of thing that I might expect a Windoze person to use.
Back to my original thought of an automount onto a NFS share ?
Maybe not.
Still in the embryonic stage yet - there is always plenty of discussion along the lines of " which laptop"
Yes. If you can build one from second hand scrap parts then the IBM ones can be very good. A friend of mine is a Post Office network engineer. He built his IBM/SuSE 8.0 notebook from a pile of scrap in a cupboard at work. Other than that Toshiba or one of the others. Dell and Compaq have some peculiar things under the bonnet so I don't like them so much. Friend of mine at Insight uses Toshiba with SuSE and Mandrake.
I must admit I haven't - Smoothie's looked after me ok so far, (but I'm open to any constructive comments...)
The SuSE firewall is also very nice. Smoothwall, IP Cop, Freesco .. etc .. are all very educational. It's a good idea to try to write your own firewalls eventually. That way you can learn a lot about network security at the same time. Very important when it comes to Unix in general. Thanks -- Richard www.sheflug.co.uk