From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 29 12: 2: 8 2002 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 6FA5337B401 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:02:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from angelfish.lewiz.org (dialup.212-50-181-107.karoo.KCOM.COM [212.50.181.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6166043ED4 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:02:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lewiz@walrus.lewiz.org) Received: (qmail 96042 invoked by uid 85); 29 Dec 2002 20:01:55 -0000 Received: from lewiz@walrus.lewiz.org by angelfish by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (sophie: 2.10/3.62. spamassassin: 2.43. Clear:SA:0(-1.6/5.0):. Processed in 2.071864 secs); 29 Dec 2002 20:01:55 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 Received: from walrus.lewiz.org (192.168.0.10) by angelfish.lewiz.org with SMTP; 29 Dec 2002 20:01:51 -0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 61775 invoked by uid 1001); Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:01:53 -0000 Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:01:53 +0000 From: lewiz To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-questions Subject: Working remotely. Message-ID: <20021229200153.GA61755@lewiz.org> Mail-Followup-To: lewiz , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o" Content-Disposition: inline X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, This may have come up before but I've not found anything after searching Google that quite satisfies the question. I run my laptop on my network during evenings but during the daytime I attend college, where I really need to access my documents, mail, etc. Is there any method of synchronizing the laptop with the server (I have an NFS exported homedirectory and use NIS/YP for authentication). I have considered writing a script that uses rsync to synchronize the laptop with the server, in so much as maintaining a local copy of the homedirectory -- I can do this quite effectively using /etc/start_if.{if}. However, I have various problems with my Maildir mailbox (files have letters appended to the filename depending on their status) that could cause data loss or duplication. The second problem is with authentication -- is there any way to cache usernames/passwords so that I can still log on without an NIS/YP server being available? If not, would the best method be to set up a local server mirroring the NIS/YP database and authenticate against this? Basically, I want to be as productive away from my network as I am at it but there seem to be various things that don't allow this to happen. Has anybody found good solutions to them? I would be eager to hear what anybody has to say on this matter. Many thanks, -lewiz. --=20 You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog. -- Alfred Kahn ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+D1SxItq0KFQv7T8RAhd+AKCgCjgBjZiQKe7x1cxvVpl5Tx4tQgCdHVMj 7G687ag7nCt/tli/9BeA1Rc= =rZKh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message