hi philippe
i'm sorta confused b your comment
but am assuming oyu want to automount /home amgonst
all your servers so that you can login on any machine
and happily keep working??
have a look at the autofs-HOWTO...
thanx
alvin
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html
simplified config...
a. on the home server... home.foo.com
/home as an export in home.foo.com:/etc/exports
- retart nfs
b. on the clients
# mv /home /home.original
# mkdir /.autofs
# ln -s /.autofs/home /
manually test that you can mount the remote home server
# mount home:/home /mnt/test
# vi /etc/auto.master
/.autofs /etc/auto.home --timeout 600
# vi /etc/auto.home
home -fstype=nfs home:/home
# restart autofs
see if it worked..
# ls -la /home
# ls -ls /home/philippe
- you might need to fiddle with /etc/nfsswitch
depending on yur lan and distros
- you may or may not wanna setup an NIS servers, w/ secondaries for
login/password authentication...
check for errors/status in /var/log/messages or equivalent
have fun
alvin
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Philippe Derogis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a newbee on this list, I get several
> linux box and several Xsever stations and
> user account are distributed on the linux boxes.
> I use nis (wich work fine) in order to sync all
> the groups and users ids and the computer ip as
> well. I export the home directorues of users from
> their computer through NFS. This thing that I want
> to have is that when a user <toto> perform a rlogin on
> a computer he find his home directory in /home/toto nfs
> automount or not depending on where is phisically his
> home directory. Is there a known (simple) way to do
> this whis NIS, NFS and autofs ???
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Philippe.
>
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