[nzlug] [Followup] Shared Home Partitions & logging in as the same user twice

[Howard]

Howard said on 14/03/08 21:18:
> Anything to watch out for in logging on to two separate machines that 
> share a /home partition?
> 
> I want to use another machine, and plan to mount /home on the second via 
> nfs.  I'll also plan to log into as the same user on both - at the same 
> time.

Thanks for the suggestions from people - just a follow up for anyone who 
cares... The answer IMO for a graphical workstation.... don't bother.

I started by mounting the main /home on the new machine via nfs. There 
are plenty of instances where I found where it became a waste of time.

Firefox won't allow two instances (on separate machines) to use the same 
.mozilla-firefox config.  It asks you to shut one down first.  So I just 
sim-linked the config and now I can use either a default config (any 
time) or the other machine's config (as long as the other machine isn't 
running firefox).

Thunderbird is the same, so in the end I just copied the entire 
configuration across to the other machine. I use IMAP, so it makes no 
difference which machine I use.  Saves setting the other one up - but 
address books and likely a few other useful things won't be shared (I 
don't use its junkmail features)

Not many other programs required continual updates to the configs, so I 
just copied them across as necessary.  Any documents in /home are just 
shared over nfs when needed.

cheers
H

PS FWIW, I'm running Synergy across the two machines to give me 4 LCD 
monitor glory.  I gave up on trying more graphics cards, as they are 
older PCI/AGP machines.  Synergy is not a bad solution, but I keep 
trying to drag windows between the middle two monitors!