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I'm trying to setup a home network using Linux (14.04) and would like to know what the process is called where you have a client machine (or several) connected to a server using the programs from the server instead of the client. Like in schools and enterprises.

I have no idea what this process is called so I cannot Google it.

I have tried some methods like using LDAP & NIS, But they crash my client machine.

Could someone tell me what the name of this system is?

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  • this doesn't work? http://michaelminn.com/linux/home_network/ – Ron Jun 08 '15 at 12:40
  • Not really knowing what I was doing, I set mine up to mount samba shares using cifs at boot. It works, but if I was doing it again, I'd use nfs, as suggested in the answer to this question: http://askubuntu.com/questions/491808/cifs-vfs-error-messages – Organic Marble Jun 08 '15 at 12:45

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The setup you are describing is often referred to as a thin client configuration. You may find the Linux Terminal Server Project (LSTP) a good place to start.

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It may be that you are thinking of multi-tiered architecture. This would have a client like a browser, a web server like Apache, a database like SQL, etc.

To set that up at home, look for LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) and you'll find a lot of information including tutorials on setup, etc.

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