[wplug] System admin book

[Henry Umansky]

Another possibility could be to set up AFS

<http://www.psc.edu/general/filesys/afs/afs.html>

-Henry

--On Monday, June 23, 2003 9:41 AM -0400 John Strange 
<john at strangeness.org> wrote:r

> Roaming profiles on linux?
>
> I think you are a little confused, remember unix doesn't have roaming
> profiles.  What exactly are you trying to get to work?  That users have
> the same home directory no matter what machine they log into?
>
> If so NFS/NIS/Automount would be a much better solution for you if you
> are just running linux machines.
>
> - John
>
> On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 16:56, Shawn wrote:
>> I am desperatly trying to find a book on linux networking. I currently
>> have 13 pc's running linux and have been trying to use Samba to do
>> filesharing and roaming profiles.I am begining to think this doesnt work
>> with out windows in the network. Can I do this with NFS.  My Problem is
>> that I can create workgroups all daylong with Samba but the clients are
>> not joining the domain I have specified. They get locked out and I cant
>> see them. I stuck a win98 client and it joined the domain easily. Why
>> would a win98 machine join and the linux boxes not?
>>
>> If I can do this with Samba let me know and I will send the config files
>> to see what Im doing wrong. If I have to do this with NFS   HELP!!! I
>> have never used it before.
>>
>> Mark Sikora wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >> http://tldp.org/guides.html (network administrator's guide is a
>> >> *must*)
>> >>
>> >> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/apps.html#SERVERAPPS (for mail/web
>> >> servers)
>> >> http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> > Please do not be afraid to reference the wplug mirror of the LDP.
>> > http://ldp.wplug.org
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> >
>> >
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Henry Umansky
University of Pittsburgh
Computing Services and Systems Development
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