On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Sanjai Varma wrote: > I wish to keep backup on a remote Linux PC from local Linux PC. Both > has same usernames ( same user and group IDs also) and passwords. I > installed "mirrordir" on local PC. At first attempt it fail to write > any thing as "/home" was not allowing others to write. I changed > permission, so that it succeeded to backup. > > But, it changed used IDs, thus when I login on remote machine, I can't > go to user's home directory. > I donot know anything about this program "mirrordir" and how it is working. Otherwise it seems funny. > How to solve this problem? Is it possible what I am thinking? > > --------------------------- > Command used from local PC > --------------------------- > mount /mnt/md > mirrordir /home /mnt/md --no-chmod --no-chown -i > --exclude-from /root/exclude.md --strict-locking > > --------------------------- > fstab entry on local PC > --------------------------- > 192.168.106.170:/home /mnt/md nfs noauto,exec,user,rw 0 0 > This will work provided you have exported /home in the remote machine with the following line in the /etc/exports file restart nfs out there.
/home your.local.machine.com(rw,no_root_squash) Insted of your.local.machine.com you can use wild charectors like *.local.machine.com > With no_root_squash, when root mounts the remote /home he will get the root privilages at the mounted directory. Vasudevan.K.S /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ < ***Vasudevan.K.S Beeta Computers mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 778171*** > \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
