[Westwales] Submission request

[John Bailey]

> - in /etc/fstab on each client, mount the home directories from the
> server onto the client user's home directories. It will look something like:
> 	server:/home/fred  /home/fred  nfs  defaults  0  0

If you're going to have a lot of users or want something more automated, 
you could look at using autofs here instead of specifically calling out 
each user in /etc/fstab.

> There are other ways of achieving what you want, so I'm not going to
> pretend my way is the best. In particular, LDAP (or NIS) will avoid the
> need to create all the accounts on every PC;

LDAP's reasonably easy to set up via PAM - there were some good HOWTOs 
knocking around when I last did it.  It's worth noting that the other 
thing that LDAP or NIS will give you conveniences such as changing 
passwords - if you have the accounts replicated on each machine then if a 
user changes their password it will only be changed on that machine - if 
they sit down at a different one next time they'd have to use their old 
password.  Of course this may be a complete non-issue for your situation.

Cheers,

John