/home on server

[Clive Menzies]

On (07/08/06 12:23), David Woyciesjes wrote:
> marc wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'd like to store all my users' home directories on a server - one 
> > glorious /home. Hence, I will need to mount /home from that server.
> > 
> > I've done a search but not been able to unearth a doc that I can use as 
> > a guide and, no doubt, point out some pitfalls that I haven't yet 
> > considered.
> > 
> > Any pointers? Thanks.
> > 
> 
> 	As an addition, I'd like to be able to do that with my wife's machine 
> also, except that it's an OSX 10.3 machine...

You can use samba in a mixed environment.  We use it with Debian,
Windows and MacOSX clients.  Note for OSX clients one needed to
explicitly share individual home directories rather than relying on the
general /home sharing parameter in smb.conf.

    *  Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf 
    (see   http://www.math.temple.edu/computing/samba.html)
    * Change domain and create shares and test (smb.conf)
    * Create smbpasswd -a for users
Regards

Clive

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