This is my first message to this list after switching my home machine over to 9.1 Professional. I am using Opera for mail as I couldn't figure out how to get Kmail to check more than one email account. This feature is a must for me as I have both my school account and a personal account I check in either location 9.1 looks very good so far. For my summer project I am switching the computer lab at school over to Suse on everything, server and workstations. I currently have a redhat 9 server, running Samba as pdc through which windows clients are authenticating and mapping shares that exist on the redhat server. There are two or three administrators who will continue to use windows machines so I will continue to run Samba for them but with all linux in the lab itself I need another solution. the current setup is easy if full of security holes. Workstation users all have the same desktop and drives are mapped based on their usernames. Profiles and home directories are not stored locally but stay on the server. That is what I want. Keep home directories on one central server and give workstations a mapped directory which holds their home directories. I am assuming NIS is what will do the authentication, is this right? If so how do I set up the server properly, the man for NIS I cannot locate. A How to would be appreciated. Does NIS also handle the sharing/mapping out of server directories? Or is that something like NFS? -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/