From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 15:36:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5409916A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:36:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25D6643D48 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:36:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout04/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j58Fask6024923; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:36:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (pool-68-161-69-6.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.69.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j58FaqID027248; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:36:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20050608101018.F23064@mail.goinet.com> References: <20050607190008.G64334@mail.goinet.com> <200506081008520122.0A70E510@mail.intradyn.com> <20050608101018.F23064@mail.goinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:36:51 -0400 To: Tony Shadwick X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) Cc: Henry Miller , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptops, centralized authentication, and "roaming profiles" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:36:58 -0000 On Jun 8, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Tony Shadwick wrote: > Oooh....good call on the vpn. Set it up to where they have a local > user, and local home directory, vpn in. Okay, so now I'm on the > network, presuming the pptp server was authing against OpenLDAP or > NIS. Add a script to that login that mounts any NFS shares, and > quite possibly does a quick rsync against a server to back up the > home directory. Problem is, if they didn't "nicely" disconnect, > then we don't know who's copy needs to be updated, the local copy > or the remote copy. :\ If you're going to be updating two trees of stuff not always in sync, a version control system like CVS or SVN might be worth considering. Used carefully, rsync will also deal with this pretty well, but you would be wise to have known-good backups before trusting rsync -- delete to merge. > I'll look into Andrew's File System. That's a bit of a misnomer on > the acronym though. AFS seems to be more commonly known as "Apple > File Sharing" protocol. Yay... Nowadays, that's true. However, CMU was using AFS before Apple sold computers which could do ethernet, and it's quite possible that Andrew even predates the introduction of the original 128k Macs. It's "Andrew File System", BTW, no possessive: named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon, who are the "C" and "M" from where the system was developed. :-) -- -Chuck