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 ???
>
Yes, that's pretty much what autofs *does*. You need to set up an
auto.master and an auto.home map on your NIS server; the auto.home map
indicates the location of everyone's directory.
-hpa
