[ltp] Syncing various data with a desktop (configs, bookmarks and such)

Jeffrey Taylor linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:19:38 -0600


> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:45:43 -0500
> Tom von Schwerdtner <tvon@etria.com> wrote:
> 
> > There are a few things I've been wanting in terms of moving between my
> > laptop and my desktop PC.  
> > 
[snip]
> > 
> > 2) I'd like to be able to have some automagic mounting going on with my
> > laptop when it is booted on my home network.  I'm not sure where to
> > start with this but I would at very least like my laptop to auto-mount
> > some share directories if it can figure out that it is running on my
> > home network.  Ideally, I'd like my desktop to mount my laptop when the
> > laptop boots on the network.
> > 

If you are running Debian, look at whereami.  I think it has not been
ported to other distros.  I set it up to detect and configure for:
home LAN, other LAN w/ DHCP, standalone.  Worked like a charm.  Wish I
had something like it for SuSE.

Jeffrey