Two FC machines with same network home dirs

[Artik]

Hello,

I have two computers at home:
Main - WinXP that FC3 will be added soon.
xx-linux - FC3 - for my personal usage.

Most of time Main runs with WinXP (family purpose), but I want to add dual boot with FC3 and to use this new powerfull computer with Linux. However I'd like to force it to use same home directoy on old computer - use network file system for home directory. Thus I'll have same configuration and working evironment on same machines.

Of course I know that most of time Main will run in XP mode thus I need to Network home directory to be storred at old one.

What should I do/install in order to run such configuration?
Thank you for advise.

[philippjosefric]

One possibility: Dual boot , then you can either run windows or Linux.
Or: OS = Linux. You can run windows besides, on a second task, just press
ctrl-alt + Function-key to switch between Windows and Linux.
I have seen this today, it works wonderful, but is expensive:
http://www.vmware.com/products/server/gsx_screens.html

Philipp

[Artik]

I do want to use Dual boot on the Main computer.
I just what that two Linx computers will share same home directory for users.
Like for big networks of UNIX/Linux machines when each user has it's home directory on network drive. But I want the solution for two computers only.

Thank you.

[chiku31]

Not sure if this gonna work:

Edit the /etc/fstab file on your two computer and modify the home directory location like the following.

/dev/hde3 /home reiserfs rw

ofcourse one of your computer is gonna networked and the modification might look like this:

//your_IP_address/home_directory_drive /home filesystem rw


The above method might not contain all the necessary detail since I had not done it before. You might had to figure some of the the detail yourself. I pretty the above method is the way to accomplish your goal. OH one morethinfg, you must first configure your samba network sahre properly before expecting the above mthod to work.

[Vinneh]

And you would want to enable static IP addresses if you use dhcp, too :P