On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 15:56 +0200, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi! > > I have to Linux Distributions on clients within my network. It SuSE 10.0 > and Fedore Core 5. Some users switch from one to another. I mount /home > from a nfs- server and have nis enabled. As it is no good to mount the > same home into two differen distributions I made a /home/fc5 directory > within the nfs- server and make seperat homes for the fc5 users in there > and mount it as /home on fc5. > > What I need is the directory /home/Documents within the /home/user and > /home/fc5/user to be in sync. There are few enough users to make a > solution by hand. I tried a symlink, but unfortunately the clients can't > follow, because the target isn't mounted on fc5 clients anyway. (link > was /home/user/Documents to /home/fc5/user/Documents) And I can't > hardlink a directory. > > In short I need a client to follow a link to a directory which is not > mounted on it, but just available on the server. > > Is there any other solution, you would suggest? Yes. Don't put your users's physical directories in /home, but somewhere else and make /home an automount mountpoint. Then you can implement an /etc/auto.home automounter map similar to this: user1 suse1:/users/user1 user2 suse1:/users/user2 user3 fc1:/users/user3 Then users will have see /home/userN as $HOME transparently and independent of the machine and OS they are logged into. However, as others already mentioned, SuSE's ~/.* and logins scripts aren't necessarily FC/RH compatible and vice-versa. Getting this functional would require further steps to get this working. Ralf
