One /home/username shared amongst several Fedora instances using external HD

[John Thompson]

Scot L. Harris wrote:

> You may also want to look at NIS+.  I have not done this before but I
> seem to remember that with NIS+ when you log into a system you could
> have it use NFS to mount your home directory on any system you log
> into.  Lookup the NIS automount options for doing this.

That's what I do here.  User home directories are hosted on a FreeBSD 
machine, and are mounted via NFS as the users' home directories 
regardless of whether they're using linux, FreeBSD or NetBSD.  I have 
them set up has samba shares as well, so users' "My Documents" directory 
  is actually the samba-mounted home directory on the FreeBSD machine 
when they use Windows.

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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)