Fwd: Re: [plug] mounting home directories

[simon at plumtek.com]

Apologies, I accidentally replied to Mark alone instead of the list.....

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Quoting Marc Wiriadisastra <marc-w at smlintl.com.au>:

> Yeah that is correct.  I don't know of another way to deal with the
> situation and I'm used to samba.  Thats the only reason I'm using it.

Are you running X on the laptop? Im pretty sure than some of the window
managers
try to create special files in your home directory, which I believe will fail
with SMB.

Im not entirely convinced that SMB is useful for this - from my limited
understanding of it, it will let you access a share as a single user...
meaning
that all files appear to be owned by that user/group. Someone can correct me
here if Im wrong.

Perhaps NFS might be a better way to go - but the problem still exists
that you
must either sync your passwd/shadow/group files across the server and the
laptop, or use some form of centralised authentication (with a fallback to
local file auth on the laptop if youre unplugged from the network).