On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 18:30, James Wilkinson wrote: > > Please note: you will either have to make sure that your numerical > user-ID is the same on each computer (which will require the admin's > co-operation) or try using a non-native filesystem, giving the > appropriate user-ID to the mount command. > > Some software may not like having home on a non-Unix-style FS: I > wouldn't recommend it. > > Changing the numeric ID for an existing user is not as easy as creating > a new user with the right numeric ID: use adduser -u. > > Hope this helps > > James. > It does, thanks for that important detail. I have this configuration up and running now. It's being able to do things like this that is making my experimental move to linux from windows seem like a justified effort!
