NFS, NIS, SMB easy tutorial?

I know that all the answers can be found in the regular howtos of NFS, NIS,
SMB, but I'd like to know if it exists on the web an easy tutorial that
explains to a newbie how to set up a network of desktops running Linux.

In particular, what I want to do is to replicate (at home with two PCs, a
server and a client) with Linux the usual Windows NT/2000 desktop network
you usually find in big companies: the user PCs have the OS and the
applications installed locally; the login is authenticated by a remote
server (or locally, if disconnected), and the home directory is remote (or
locally, if disconnected), plus a shared remote directory.

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> I know that all the answers can be found in the regular howtos of NFS, NIS,
> SMB, but I'd like to know if it exists on the web an easy tutorial that
> explains to a newbie how to set up a network of desktops running Linux.
>
> In particular, what I want to do is to replicate (at home with two PCs, a
> server and a client) with Linux the usual Windows NT/2000 desktop network
> you usually find in big companies: the user PCs have the OS and the
> applications installed locally; the login is authenticated by a remote
> server (or locally, if disconnected), and the home directory is remote (or
> locally, if disconnected), plus a shared remote directory.
>
I don't quite follow your logic/explanation ...anyway take a lookmy
webpage for help in setting up samba.
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Regards,
Mark

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Mark wrote:

> I don't quite follow your logic/explanation ...anyway take a lookmy
> webpage for help in setting up samba.

thanks for the link.

actually what I want is to configure a linux client and a linux server: the
client boots up, and when someone logs in, user id and password are sent to
the server, which decides if they are good.
once a user is logged in, he accesses his home directory on that server.

let's suppose that there's an office with 10 people and 10 computers, and
they have to move from one desk to another, so that they have to change
computers: when someone changes the pc from which he logs in, he finds in
the new pc the same settings he had in the old one.