One /home/username shared amongst several Fedora instances using external HD

[CB]

On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 18:30, James Wilkinson wrote:

> 
> Please note: you will either have to make sure that your numerical
> user-ID is the same on each computer (which will require the admin's
> co-operation) or try using a non-native filesystem, giving the
> appropriate user-ID to the mount command.
> 
> Some software may not like having home on a non-Unix-style FS: I
> wouldn't recommend it.
> 
> Changing the numeric ID for an existing user is not as easy as
creating
> a new user with the right numeric ID: use adduser -u.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> James.
> 


It does, thanks for that important detail. I have this configuration up
and running now. It's being able to do things like this that is making
my experimental move to linux from windows seem like a justified effort!