nis roaming profile and local profile

[guna81_m]

i confiured nis server , each user logs into nis server .

Question ?

in windows ads we are having a concept of local profile and roaming profile .

it is possible to implement localprofile and roaming profile in unix for nis server

thanks and regards
M.Gunasekaran.

[Matti_Kurkela]

In Windows, "profile" means user's desktop and application settings, files on the desktop, and the like.

In Unix, these are done in a very different way. The application settings are usually stored in .dotfiles (hidden files) in the user's home directory. The GUI desktop is usually just a sub-directory of the user's home directory.

NIS does not handle users' files at all: it is usually only for user information. If you want to compare to Windows products, NIS is more like Active Directory, but more limited. If you want files accessible from several workstations, you can use NFS for that.

If you are setting up a group of workstations and want the users to be able to move from one workstation to another, the usual solution in the Unix world is to place the home directories to a NFS server and mount them to the workstations using NFS and optionally automounter. All the user's files (not just the profile) are available on any workstation. There is no delay caused by copying the profile from the server to the workstation when logging in and logging out.

If you don't use NFS, you get the equivalent of local profiles: all the user settings made on one workstation are specific to that workstation only.

MK