Home Directory/Server-Client System

[mycroftnh]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if and how it would be possible to put together a sort of Home "cluster" system. Specifically, I wanted to make it so I would have a central server and a few computers, where the central server holds the home folders and settings of each user, and each user can log in to any of the computers using a standardized login (into the server), where anyone could log in with their account on any of the few computers - and their home folder (Desktop, Documents, Music, etc) would automatically be there.

Also if possible, would there be some way to centralize the applications that show up on each "client"?

If you know of any applications/programs that can handle all of this, please let me know!

Thanks for your time

Your term "cluster" is not accurate.

Have you looked at /etc/fstab to auto-mount a share?

[stevea]

Yes, cluster exactly what he means.

He can look at the "389" directory service packages and the GFS2 clustered file system (which reportedly has great performance). Setup is somewhat difficult. Most of the documentation is on the RHEL manuals, which are online.

When I think of cluster, I picture high availability (failover) and network load balancing. I could be wrong, which wouldn't be the first time.