[ILUG] NIS and NFS, the story continues..

[Donncha O Caoimh]

Thanks lads, gotta get coding on Io again so I can put this stuff in
there.. valuable information!

Donncha


Liam Bedford wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Donncha O Caoimh [mailto:donncha.ocaoimh at tradesignals.com]
> >
> > Got NIS working, with shadow passwords too, and now looking at sharing
> > home directories among machines.
> > The simplest way I can think of is to export the whole /home tree and
> > mount it on /home on foreign machines, but this could be a lot more
> > expensive than I'd like. I tried to get my head around autofs and amd
> > but I couldn't find any clear "do this on the server" and "do this on
> > the client" docs to get that lot working. Would I have to have a
> > seperate line in /etc/exports on the server for each home directory?
> Nope.. depends on what you want to do I spose.. but we have something like:
> File Server:
> Export the whole home directory
> 
> Clients:
> I tend to nuke most of the auto files in /etc, and just work from
> auto.master, but that's because I have sun boxes, which have automount
> setup in their NIS+ tables.
> 
> auto.master:
> /usr/home       auto_home       -nobrowse
> 
> auto.home should have:
> *       kavanagh:/export/home/&
> 
> That will then mount /usr/home/whatever, assuming the directory
> /export/home/whatever
> exists on kavanagh...
> 
> It's quite nice... (I'm looking at sun stuff here, but linux is the same if
> you
> use the autofs modules... there's a line +auto_master, which yanks it in
> from
> NIS... if that's there, you may want to comment it out)