Stefan Janecek wrote: > > Mostly, I just share home out so that I have the same www bookmarks, same > > mail folders, and same custom scripts (under ~/bin) available to me. There > > are lots of issues when you do this kind of thing, though (you have to make > > sure your /etc/group and /etc/passwd files are synchronised across the LAN, > > so that every machine identifies group and user ownership correctly.
> Usually NIS or LDAP are used for synchronizing user/group information across > your network. IMHO nis is much easier to set up, but also less secure and > lacks > a lot of LDAP's features - but for only a few computers behind a firewall > nis should be enough. You could do 'apt-get install nis' and read the > nis-howto > in /usr/doc/nis. Thanks for giving this hint. I'll have a closer look at the debian docs. Robert
