Thoughts for the meeting

[JJ Neff]

I'm much more familiar with Windows answer to this, which is a local copy of
the users "profile"  on the machine as well as on the network.  This si alwasy
sthere whether or not the user has a HOME directory on the Network somewhere. 
When I logon It checks which is newer and updates the other.  If I can't get to
a domain controller It uses whatever is cached locally and will try to sync
whenever a domain controller (NIS Master server?) becomes available.  

This may be quite rudimentary but I'm talking out loud to maybe help the
programmers in the group see what we're aiming for.  

I feel very confident that we are not the first Linux users to use laptops and
this must have been answered or proposed by others.  If anyone has links or
uses laptops where they work please holler!

JJN
--- Robert Dege <rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > The slave server answers the question of password syncing (I'm thinking PDC
> -
> > BDC right?)
> 
> Not password syncing, but account info.  NIS has a series of different
> functions, but in regards to passwds, it contains entire passwd file
> entries, although it can contain shadow file entries as well.
> 
> > But I think what you are inferring is that if I log on as a seperate user
> and
> > want all the same program settings I need to somehow copy the .* files from
> all
> > the apps I use as an NIS user to the ~/ of the user I log on as when not
> > connected right?
> 
> I discussed this further in an email I sent out, but then I realized that
> I sent it to Bob's yahoo account by accident instead of the nflug list.
> 
> The problem as I understand it is this:
> 
> On the network, your $HOME is on a remote machine.  If you logon to a
> machine (no matter which machine), your $HOME directory is mounted from
> this remote machine, and everythign appears local to you.
> 
> Off the network, you have to physical access to your $HOME.  So how do you
> get & maintain the files?
> 
> You go back onto the network, and your $HOME is restored to the remote
> machine.  How do you sync the files so that you keep the updated ones?
> And what do you do with the $HOME you had when your machine (laptop in
> this case) was not connected.
> 
> Some interesting food for thought.
> 
> Dege
> 
> Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but
> they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.
> 


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