From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Nairn Subject: Re: Sharing the home directory... Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 23:27:58 -0700 Sender: linux-config-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021027232758.B1686@gemini.home.org> References: <000301c27cf8$32d775b0$2720873e@IBRAHIM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000301c27cf8$32d775b0$2720873e@IBRAHIM>; from shaffei@hotmail.com on Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 04:01:36PM +0200 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ibrahim El-Shafei Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org, linux-config@vger.kernel.org Hello, A few considerations... You haven't supplied much information about the problems you are having. Make sure that your passwd and group file are the same. This way the users will have the same UID/GID on the different boxes. If they don't it won't work. Having the same name does not work. To this end you may want to consider using NIS. It is fairly simple to set up, and you will have a single point for users and passwords. The next thing that you want to check out is if you have exported the home directory to all the machines that you want. There is a file /etc/exports which should look something like: /home 192.168.1.0/24(rw,no_root_squash) This would allow any machine on that subnet to access the /home directory. Check out man 5 export and exportfs(8) You also need to be running NFS client and servers. Otherwise, please be more specific with what you are experienceing as there may be a number of different problems that it could be. Cheers, Richard Nairn Nairn Consulting On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 04:01:36PM +0200, Ibrahim El-Shafei wrote: > Dear Sir, > I have about 5 linux boxes on my site. I want to make all of them share > the same home directory and users, so I exported the home directory of > one of them and then pointed to this home directory as /home for the > other boxes. It didn't work, why? > > Thank you for your help. > > Yours, > Ibrahim El-Shafei > "HimaTech" > > Ibrahim El-Shafei > "HimaTech" > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ---end quoted text--- -- | Richard Nairn Specializing in Linux | Nairn Consulting Web / Database Solutions | Calgary, AB | Richard@NairnConsulting.ca