/home on server

[David Woyciesjes]

David Abrahams wrote:
> Clive Menzies <clive at clivemenzies.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> On OSX, google "SharePoints," which will let you manage all your
> shares and do things that you'd otherwise need OSX server for.

	SharePoints? Hmmm, maybe there's a bit of misunderstanding here. My 
plan/hope is to have Ubuntu as the server, hosting all the /home 
directories. My wife's Mac OSX machine would be the client, so then it 
would mount it's /home from the Ubuntu server and use that. Actually, I 
believe OSX refers to it as /users.

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