Hello, I have several computers in my house, all running Suse Linux 10. I have a central computer set up as a server, what I would like to do is set it up to where when you logout using KDE it will RSYNC the home directory of that user to the server, and then when you log back in. It will RSYNC the user's home directory back to that computer from that server. This way all computers maintain a current copy of that home directory. If this is not possible, then I would like it to simply rsync the entire /home directory to the server when the system shuts down. Then when it boots back up just rsync the /home directory from the server to the system. How would I go about doing this?

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You could put the rsync command in your ~/.bash_logout script.

I think it would be easier to put all of the files on one server computer and use Samba to mount the directory from the server to the computer that you log onto. Trying to put some command that could take a long time or even hang could cause you to have to power cycle your computer to get it into a usable state.

I was worried about the hanging issue. A while back I did try mounting the /home directory from one computer to another using NFS to see how it would work. It worked decently, there was some lagging issues. I will look into that more though.

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NFS isn't nearly as reliable as SMB. I'm not giving Microsoft a compliment. IBM invented SMB. Use Samba, not NFS.

I had always considered samba as more of a windows to linux style of networking, and that NFS was more native to linux and better for linux to linux networking. This is very good to know.

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