On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 13:57 +0100, Uno Engborg wrote: > I am the only one thinking that installing new users home directories > into /home/ by default is a bad idea. What I would have liked to see in > future Fedora releases is, a /export/home directory that was used by > default, and that the user directories was automounted > on /home/. from that or from some file server. > > That way it would be much easier to make network setups. It would also > simplify the use of mobile computers not always connected to the > network, as they could mount home directories > on a file server when connected to a network, and to fail over to the > local version when disconnected. The server and the remote /etc/exports > could then be kept synchronized with rsync. when the user logged in or > out, or on user demand. > > Any thoughts? > > Regards > Uno Engborg > ... What's the difference? You can share /home just as you can share /export/home... (Unix admins have been doing it for ages now) Just stuff /home/XXX (or /home itself) into your smb.conf/exports and it'll work just fine. Cheers,
