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wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:
> Since I am never without my laptop, I just use NFS and symlink from my
> various home machines (mixture of linux, solaris, and hp/ux) onto the
> laptop via 'amd'.

That works until you're working on a machine behind an IPmasq gateway
and try to NFS-mount something in the Greater Out There, at which
point the server Out There logs messages from amd about the insanity
of the source request because its source port is mis-mapped, in turn
because the IPmasq gateway itself is using the intended port, so that
the masq code picks a replacement at random.

My solution is simply to ssh into my main machine, to run XEmacs
there.  I have yet to find a synchronization scheme that isn't either
horridly hackish or prone to failure in the face of unexpected
networking weirdnesses like IPmasq.