STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote: >> >> Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote: >> >> > What I have is NFS/NIS client Fedora workstations with a shared user >> > account located on centralized file server. >> > So each workstation login ends up pointing to the same home >> directory on >> > the single NFS server. Am I asking for trouble? >> >> Can't speak for Gnome, but KDE should be fine. In short, >> you're logging >> in the same user/homedir on multiple machines? >> > I saw some problems doing this when bringing up Thunderbird > to read mail. Both machines wanted to use the same mail files. > > Bob Styma > NFS shared mail has always caused problems. What's the "best" way to do it? Don't do it! Why not setup a single server as an imap server. Read your mail from there. That's what I do. I recommend dovecot. Standard with fedora, and easy. Can read from squirrelmail if you like. Zero setup.
