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    From Rudolf@rthered@bigfoot.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Thursday, July 03, 2003 23:35:02
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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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  • From Kevin McMurtrie@mcmurtri@sonic.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, July 04, 2003 02:55:11
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    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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  • From anno4000@anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno Siegel) to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, July 04, 2003 09:14:42
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    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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