From: Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 1. There is a LAN with 15 computers all running Linux.
> 2. One of the linux boxes is running an LDAP server.
> 3. Another one - the file server hosts all the users home directories.
> 4. Any user can sit in any machine. All authentication is done via LDAP.
Change nsswitch.conf to lookup LDAP for logi authentication.
> 5. As soon as the user is logged in his home directory is NFS(or whatever)
> mounted on /home/<login-name>
Why not mount all the time? Mount
mount -t nfs fileserver:/home /home
or else, use automounter, to mount only when necessary.
> 6. as soon as he logs off, the share is auto unmounted.
Why? What is it hurting you on the LAN?
> 7. The user should also be able to access his mail locally (i.e. non POP3
> mail) on the machine that he sits.
mount -t nfs -o noactime mailserver:/var/mail /var/mail
Notice noactime, to get around caching on the NFS client.
-- Ghane
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