Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Configuring a Workgroup
Adding Users to a Workgroup
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Local versus Remote Home Directories
Users can have their home directory on their own local system or on a
remote file server. The advantage of keeping all users’ home directories
on one file server is that you can back up all the accounts at one time.
If a user’s home directory is on a remote server, you may want to create a
minimal home directory on the local system so that a user can still log
into the local system if the server is down. See “Should You Share Users’
Home and Mail Directories?” on page 103
See “Adding a User to Several Systems: A Case Study” on page 389 for
steps to create a home directory on a remote system.
Adding a User to Several Systems: A Case Study
The following example shows how to import Tom’s home directory and
work directory from the file server, flserver, and import Emacs and
Netscape from the application server, appserver.
Figure 4-1 Adding a User to Several Systems
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