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Hi, I've been toying with the idea of putting coda in over here for about the past 3 months or so. I've finally decided that I have to do something and I don't want to mess around with NFS any more. It's a mess. What i've been trying to acomplish is connect two machines together with some kind of redudant network filesystem, I would love for the data to be encrypted and also offer some sort of redudancy (ie, one machine goes down the other can keep serving what the other did with some kinda of cache). I know coda can do all of this but i'm having problems with the authentication issues. I need the filesystem to be transparent as possible for the users (when a person has trouble understanding what a login prompt is, they arn't going to understand clog and networked filesystems, and I don't want have to spend 20 minutes a day explaining it :) As far as I understand each coda mounted filesystem map's the uid and gid "nobody" for anyone accessing it without being authenticated. what I would love to happen is have /home/USER/$USER be mounted under a coda filesystem, /home/USER would be setup as a replicated volume to peon. Is this all possible or am I simply dreaming? :) if not any pointers to anything that would alow me to acomplish this? Thanks JustinReceived on 1999-03-18 22:37:32