Suggestion for Network Auth. + Networked /home directory

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

Hello,
I have about 3 computers in my home network running FC 3 / 4 and RHEL (maybe 
more in the future). I am planning to have somekind of a central 
authentication in a server, so that I don't have to manage users in all of 
the computer separately (mainly would be for family members). I also want 
the /home directory for each users NFS mounted from this server. I plan to 
also have a public share directory from this server which is mounted in each 
computer (ie. for storing pictures, music, etc). 

What is the easiest / fastest way to do this ? I have no experience in setting 
up something like this, although I am comfortable with linux in general. I've 
looked at LDAP but I think that would be overkill. Is there anything built-in 
the FC that will work out of the box ? The RHEL 4 machine is going to be the 
server for authentication and NFS. Any help or pointer to any good docs would 
be greatly appreciated. 

Thank you.

Reuben Budiardja