No you shouldn't have a problem as such, I think that you can do the LDAP bitty without issues, now NIS is a different beast altogther. AD On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Todd Cary wrote: > Bryan - > > As you do doubt call tell, Linux/UNIX is not my area of expertise resulting in > some basic questions. Using the designations of Master and Slave, my Master > and Slave have two different versions of RH software: RH 9 and Centos 4.1. > The Slave has it's own set of Services: HTTP, FTP and Samba along with other > supporting Services. > > Will this create a problem? > > Todd > > Bryan J. Smith wrote: > >> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 15:06 -0700, Todd Cary wrote: >> >>> I have a new Centos installation that has an empty /home dir and there are >>> no users...just root. I want to move the home directory from another >>> server to the new one. At this time the old /home directory has been >>> tarred with "-prf". That will keep permissions which could be a problem. >>> Is there a simple way to move the /home directory? And the non-system >>> users in the password and group files? >>> >> >> Yes, It's called NIS and NFS. >> It makes it extremely easy and painless. >> >> It may seem like I'm suggesting more work, but once you do it once your >> network, you will never do it again. Even if you leave NIS and NFS >> disabled, once you set them up, you can always start the services. >> >> With NIS, merely setup your current server as an NIS master. Reference >> the HOWTO (see TLDP.org). Now setup the new server as a slave. The >> maps get pushed and now you have a copy of all essential UNIX >> configuration files necessary (passwd, hosts, services, etc...). Merely >> cat >> the maps into the new server's files and make it the master. >> >> With NFS, just export /home from the old server with "no_root_squash" >> for the new server IP, and mount it on the new one. Now you can move >> (mv) things directly over from one /home to another. >> >> >> > > -- Aly S.P Dharshi aly.dharshi at telus.net "A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject" -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos