basic NFS/NIS help requested

From: rb (rb_at_panix.com)
Date: 01/27/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:19:50 -0500

I would like to set up one (Indigo2) of a network of three computers to
be a file server for the other two, and I would like to mount the
users' home directories on the server.

What I am not clear about is how to take an existing user of one of the
client machines (Octane), and add that user to the server, and migrate
his home directory to the server.

If I understand adding a new user to the network, you create the user on
the server and then essentially copy the user info to the clients. Can I
do the reverse? Copy the user's line from /etc/passwd on the client
machine to the server machine (assuming there is no conflicting user ID
number).

Once the user's account is set up on the server, can I then copy the
existing home directory from the client machine to the server, following
the procedure outlined in the "Storing Home Directories on a Second
Disk" section of Chapter 6 in the "Personal System Administration
Guide"? So that when the /usr/people/whoever directory is mounted from
the server its contents are the same as they were (at the time of
copying) on the client machine.

Have checked through the documents and can't find a description of how
to do this...thanks very much for any help, instructions, or pointers,

RB 

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