Shared home directory and NIS

[Tom H]

> I have access to several linux machines at work and they're all on a
> single nis domain. My home dir is on an nfs mount and is the same for
> all machines. I have xrdp installed on all of them but because the
> home dir is shared I find that the second session behaves badly.
> firefox wont start and any desktop that has log files fights with its
> counterpart on the other desktop.
> Is there a way to overcome this?
> I cannot change the nis and shared home dir setup...

Create different profiles with
alt-f2 firefox -ProfileManager
and then use different profiles from different boxes.