Red Hat Installation - Fedora2 file sharing

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Fedora2 file sharing

Kuan Zhou

2005-09-15, 6:05 pm

Hi,

I have three computers in the lab. Two are installed with Fedora 2 and
one is CentOS. Since the computers are used by multiple people, each
person can use a different computer in the lab every day. Is there a way
to share the files between these three computers? For example, no matter
which computer the user is using, he will see the same files under his account.
And the files changed in one computer should be immediately updated in
other two computers.

I am a newbie to Linux. Please excuse me if I make mistakes.

Kuan

Trog Woolley

2005-09-15, 6:05 pm

While stranded on the hard shoulder of the information super highway koy2@cisunix.unh.edu typed:
> Hi,
>
> I have three computers in the lab. Two are installed with Fedora 2 and
> one is CentOS. Since the computers are used by multiple people, each
> person can use a different computer in the lab every day. Is there a way
> to share the files between these three computers? For example, no matter
> which computer the user is using, he will see the same files under his account.
> And the files changed in one computer should be immediately updated in
> other two computers.

NIS and NFS are your friends here. NIS will provide centralised authenication
(the users passwords are stored on one box) and NFS will allow users to
access files from a machine designated as the file server. Here is a blurb
that I wrote when I was setting our boxes up - www.openhgs.org/it.cgi/NISNFS
although you will not need as complicated an NFS setup as described.
The references cited there-in are a much better read than my drivel.
This blurb describes a simpler setup - www.openhgs.org/it.cgi/Maud
scroll down to 02.06.05

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