Small Business Configuration

[giffordj]

Here is what I'm trying to do.

The goal is to have one location to login to from multiple computers. One computer will be the server with home directories and login authentication. The other computers login and retrieve the settings from the server.
I should be able to go to any computer on the network and login and get the same desktop and settings.
Any ideas on how I can accomplish this.

I'm using Mandrake 8.1

Thank you for your help

[The Whizzard]

What OS will the other computers be running?

For Windows computers setup SAMBA on your server for domain logons and set the Windows computers for roaming profiles. You'll need SAMBA 2.2.0 or later for Windows 2000. Don't know if Windows XP will work or not.

For linux computers I'm not sure how to go about logon authintication but use NFS to share the /home directories.

[giffordj]

We are going to a strictly Linux Environment.

[thedexman]

How small is small?

What kind of client computers do you want? I mean, just dumb terminals or full fledged PCs?

The latter case is pretty straightforward. Configure each of the PCs identically, and just use NFS to mount the home directories off some file server.

[ 03 November 2001: Message edited by: thedexman ]