[CPLUG] Dual-boot Linux

[Mark Gius]

When you say "log in directly to your CSC account" I'm going to assume
you mean you wish have your username/password/profile from the CSC
building apply to your local machine, so in essence, you are going to
have your laptop serve as a lab machine, only you own it.

As far as I know, no one has ever done this (attaching their personal
linux machine to the CSC domain), but if you're interested in doing
it, you're going to want to talk to the CSC admins about it,
specifically Greg, Byron, and Josh (Greg and Byron have offices in the
main CSC lab).  Most of the configuration is very specific to the CSC
dept, and non-CSC admins aren't exactly privy to the details.  If you
want to try and hack your way in (which I _really_ don't reccomend)
you're going to want to look into authentication via Windows Active
Directory and NFS home directory mounting (neither of which I've done
on Fedora).

A much easier option (which I highly reccomend), is to have a gnome
virtual filesystem (or the KDE equivalent) that mounts your CSC home
directory in a folder on your desktop, and then access your files from
there.  I've done this before, and it gives you a really simple way to
access your files without having to deal with other software.  We can
help you set this up fairly transparently (so that your programs can't
tell it's a network drive), and it's going to be a LOT easier than
trying to strap your system into the CSC domain.

Mark Gius

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Spencer Ellsworth <sellswor at calpoly.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to dual boot Windows and Fedora 9. The thing is that I want to
> set up Fedora so that when I boot it, I'll be able to log directly into my
> Cal Poly CSC account. Can anyone tell me how I should go about doing this,
> or point me in the right direction (tutorials, websites, etc.) Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Spencer
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