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Hello,
I had recently inquired about Headless server and thin clients. I read about that and also fat clients. I would also like to be able to wireless LTSP if I were to do this. I others have done wireless, but it does seem much more involved. I think that may be beyond my current skill set.
So I wonder if a NAS would be a better solution for me. I currently have only a 3G internet connection, so maintaining multiple Arch boxes is not super with this internet connection. So I wonder if a NAS can do some things...
Could I set up an NAS so that package files download to the NAS from a "main" computer. Then on any additional computers, can they first look to the NAS share as a repository?
Can I automount a NAS share as a place for my personal files? Not as a /home, but most evrything that is in /home except the configuration files?
If those things are possible, what should I look for in a NAS? Should I prefer NFS or Samba? I want to maintain file permissions on the NAS shares. Let's say I have users Jack and Jill. I don't won't either user to see each others files, but I want root to see both of them. I would prefer not to put a password into a mount command. I did read about UID and keeping them synced. For me with only two or three users, I guess that is not so hard to do in /etc/passwd I guees there can be a problem if the NAS can not be configured to accept the UID's that Arch assigns?
Any advice or listing of personal methods used is appreciated.
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