[wplug] Redhat, Fedora, and home folders...

[John Harrold]

Sometime in August techmike assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Has anyone run a mixture of Fedora and Redhat machines using a NFS mount
| for home folders..
| 
| I have a small workgroup of redhat pc's that logon to an NIS domain, and
| use NFS for home folders..  Just wondering if I throw a Fedora box in the
| mix I'm going to corrupt home folders just like windows roaming profiles do..

We're doing this here. Right now we have a Debian box which is running NIS,
NFS, and Samba with our users home directories located on this server (via
autofs maps being pushed by the server). We have several computers running
Redhat 9, 7.3, and Fedora Core 2. So a user can login to any of these
machines and access their home directory. I'm not sure what you mean by
corrupt home folders. The only interpretation I can think of right off hand
is this situation: 

I login to the Fedora Core 2 box running KDE 3.2.3. Then I try to login to
the Redhat 9 machine with KDE
3.1. For some reason an incompatibly exists between KDE versions and KDE on
the Redhat 9 box barfs as a result.

This is possible, but I don't think I would describe this as a corruption.

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