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Title: 2 E-smith V5 on the same lan
Post by: BK on November 06, 2001, 04:48:25 AM

Hi,

I am thinking of setting up 2 E-smith boxes on my Lan one for my VPN and the other for my email.

My worry is how can i sync the users between among the 2 boxes?
I will be using one of the boxes as the PDC of the Lan (i know how to achieve this).

Is there any howto in deploying 2 e-smith boxes on the same LAN.

Please advice.

Thanks.
Beng Kwee

Title: Re: 2 E-smith V5 on the same lan
Post by: Robert Heaton on November 07, 2001, 01:18:45 PM

Hi,

The only way you could sync the users, is schedule a CRON job, to copy /etc/passwd & /etc/smbpasswd from the PDC to the other e-smith server.

Title: Re: 2 E-smith V5 on the same lan
Post by: Bart on November 12, 2001, 11:11:38 PM

> The only way you could sync the users, is schedule a CRON job, to
> copy /etc/passwd & /etc/smbpasswd from the PDC to the other e-smith server.

Fortunately not true :), as one can use NIS to sync users/group info

Have a look at http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/nis-howto.html , which states:

"NIS is a directory service that provides configuration information to other UNIX or  Linux computer systems. If you have a network with Linux/UNIX clients, NIS allows you to synchronize user and group account information between your e-smith server and those clients".

(or : between e-smith servers )

Bart