On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 14:36, Craig White wrote:

Running a CentOS 4 server and have a few different Linux machines at home. One desktop is FC 3 and one is FC 4 and I have an old laptop running FC 1 (but I can update - just don't want to necessarily bother).

I am running LDAP and have 'included' redhat/autofs.schema in the setup but have been too chicken to try to implement because I just have a bad feeling about this...

If I automount my home directory from the LDAP server, am I gonna run into a mess with different versions of things from the different systems (i.e. GNOME settings/evolution/firefox).

Is it gonna be much slower because my home directory is now gonna be an NFS mount and I have a 100BaseT connection to my home directory?

Any other considerations?

For a few users or just testing you can enable the /net entry in /etc/auto.master, then temporarily rename a home directory and replace it with a symlink to /net/otherserver/home/username. Then if you are running the automounter, whenever that user logs in it will mount his home directory on otherserver as the target of the symlink. If it breaks something you can still log in as root to undo it. As for speed, it will probably be faster having a different box handle the home directory.