Re: Sharing /export/home folders between two servers running DNS

From: Will Hartung (willh_at_msoft.com)
Date: 12/10/03 

Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:16:54 -0800

"Tony Curtis" <tony_curtis32@_SPAMTRAP_yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:87ekvdsicx.fsf@limey.hpcc.uh.edu...
> >> On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:47:49 -0500,
> >> Peter Cattaneo <pkcattan@syr.edu> said:
>
> > I have two Sun workstations. 1 running 2.5.1 the other 2.8.
> > when both machines were 2.5.1 I used to share user home
> > folders on one machine and mount them on the other.
> > Regardless of which of the two machines you were logged
> > into, you had the same home folder. I simply shared
> > /export/home/username on one machine and mounted it to the
> > other.

> A network enabled passwd repository, e.g. NIS or LDAP, gives
> you the same user info everywhere and can also handle the
> auto_home map maintenance. One machine would be the server
> and the other(s) the client.

But if you don't feel motivated to actually set up a network wide scheme
such as NIS or LDAP, I would first check that the user id numbers of the two
users actually match on the two systems, because that's the "real" value at
issue here, not the name.

This will be obvious if you compare the two passwd files (same can be said
of groups as well).

Regards,

Will Hartung
(willh@msoft.com)

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