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Hello,

I have two macs in my house, each is on the LAN and running OS X 10.2.6.
I'd like to be able to log in to either one with the same
username/password, and have my home directory be the same. It looks
like this is possible with NIS, but from what I can tell, OS X only
comes with a NIS client, not a server.

Is there a way to set up my Macs and my network to accomplish what I
want?
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In article <rthered-A392C9.17350103072003@netnews.attbi.com>,
Rudolf <rthered@bigfoot.com> wrote:

Hello,

I have two macs in my house, each is on the LAN and running OS X 10.2.6. >I'd like to be able to log in to either one with the same
username/password, and have my home directory be the same. It looks
like this is possible with NIS, but from what I can tell, OS X only
comes with a NIS client, not a server.

Is there a way to set up my Macs and my network to accomplish what I
want?

It can probably be done using NetInfo Manager. Make the user IDs the
same and change the home directory to a shared volume. There's a way to
share NetInfo's data but good luck finding instructions.
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Peter KERR <user@host.domain> wrote in comp.sys.mac.system:

Rudolf <rthered@bigfoot.com> wrote:

I have two macs in my house, each is on the LAN and running OS X 10.2.6. I'd like to be able to log in to either one with the same username/password, and have my home directory be the same. It looks
like this is possible with NIS, but from what I can tell, OS X only
comes with a NIS client, not a server.

Is there a way to set up my Macs and my network to accomplish what I
want?

Short answer yes, but the real answer isn't short. It involves setting
up one of the Macs as a NetInfo domain server. There was a long and
detailed thread on this about a year ago on the macosx-server discussion board at apple.com, I didn't archive details :-(

If you're clever and competent there was a 48pp .pdf available from
apple Understanding and Using Netinfo. I think this may have been
subsumed into the 10.2 version of the OS-X Server Adnminstrator's Guide.

http://a32.g.akamai.net/7/32/51/12b406e03e7c14/www.apple.com/
server/pdfs/UnderstandingUsingNetInfo.pdf

It's a good paper, but if you don't have the server tools, some of
the practical instructions must be translated to equivalent actions
using NetInfo Manager and shell commands.

Most of what is needed can be done via /Applications/Utilities/NetInfo Manager, some of it requires command line tinkering.

In particular you will need the nidomain command to create the requisite domain(s). You will also have to configure the dependent machine to
access the remote directory (/Applications/Utilities/Directory Access).

As Larry Wall once said, have the appropriate amount of fun...

Anno
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