[plug] NFS

[Ryan]

On Fri, 30 May 2003 22:29:08 +0800
Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:

>  > i get the impression i need to set up a
> > NIS server or something.. seems a bit of overkill for two people though?
> > is there a simple way of doing things?
> 
> First, fix your non-sytem uids and gids so they're they're consistent 
> over both machines. Personally I use LDAP to handle this automatically 
> (its like NIS, but less ugly) but you don't need to ; just make the 
> effort to keep track. You can edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group to change 
> the IDs (CAREFULLY, use "vipw" and back up the files first). You'll need 
> to "chown -R username.groupname /home/directory" for each altered user 
> afterwards to get everything to behave.

I've never touched NFS or LDAP yet .. will do in a few weeks.  Are there any 
particularly good documents anyone suggests I read regarding LDAP in
particular, but NFS also?  Will the standard howtos be enough to get me going?

Ryan