/home on server

[David Abrahams]

David Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> writes:

> 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.

Fair enough, if that's the direction you want to go.  Still, I
wouldn't get tangled with Samba unless I had Windows clients, and then
I'd use it only for those clients.

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Dave Abrahams
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