[nzlug] General server/client enquiry

[Roland Hill]

Hi list,

I recently got tired of having addresses spread across PC's and different
applications, so I installed openldap and use that as my central address
store.

My network is purely at home; 1 x server and 1 x client, each running
Linux.

I just wondered what people do when they deploy a number of Linux clients
with respect to user accounts and /home storage (assuming no virtual
users etc).

i.e how do you deploy each client to have multiple user accounts without
setting them up individually each time? Do people use NIS for this or
even ldap?

I assume central storage of /home/$USER can be achieved with NFS.

I'm in the mood for learning and playing on my home network. Any pointers
would be appreciated.

FWIW, my server runs kubuntu 7.10, and my client currently runs
PCLinux08, but as I have been playing with 6 different distributions under
virtual box, this is bound to change!

-- 
Regards,

Roland

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