> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [BBLISA] Linux and desktops on isolated LAN > > For linux to linux (Enterprise to CentOS), what is the best > way to establish user home directories that, when a user sits > at a workstation and boots into Linux, no matter what desktop > they sit at, they log into their home directory, even if they
On your server, you should create an area (perhaps /home) that is NFS exported. All the other machines, in your /etc/fstab, you should make the clients automatically mount server:/home onto /home. Even more elegant is to use automount (a bit tougher to set up). You see, sometimes there's a problem NFS mounting a filesystem through /etc/fstab, because the network hasn't started yet, or stuff like that. With automount, the fs won't attempt to mount until you access something in that directory. > Finally, for now, what is the best way to parse data and user > accounts to the desktops to share data preservation for > backups? As present, we don't have tape or raid, and they > will take time to arrive. So for now, the > desktops will act as our backup media, too. The plan will > be to select a > handful of user accounts and some centralized data and push a > copy out to one desktop, and repeat for another desktop. Just like setting up the NFS export on the server, set up an NFS export on a client. Let the server mount the client, and then just tar or dump into a file on the client. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
