From: Donncha O Caoimh (donncha.ocaoimh at domain tradesignals.com)
Date: Thu 17 Feb 2000 - 17:10:22 GMT
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 domain 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)
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