Shared User Accounts under KDE/GNOME FC4 and/or FC5 Test2

[Neal Becker]

STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:

>> 
>> Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
>> 
>> > What I have is NFS/NIS client Fedora workstations with a shared user
>> > account located on centralized file server.
>> > So each workstation login ends up pointing to the same home
>> directory on
>> > the single NFS server.  Am I asking for trouble?
>> 
>> Can't speak for Gnome, but KDE should be fine.  In short,
>> you're logging
>> in the same user/homedir on multiple machines?
>> 
> I saw some problems doing this when bringing up Thunderbird
> to read mail.  Both machines wanted to use the same mail files.
> 
> Bob Styma
> 

NFS shared mail has always caused problems.  What's the "best" way to do it? 
Don't do it!  Why not setup a single server as an imap server.  Read your
mail from there.  That's what I do.  I recommend dovecot.  Standard with
fedora, and easy.  Can read from squirrelmail if you like.  Zero setup.