Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > I think it's the other way round: home resides on the the server, and > it's mounted on the workstation(s) to make sure you have the same home > regardless of the workstation you log into. > > For some reason, Vik has his home on his workstation, and wants to mount > it on his server.
Correct. > A few years ago, I found that shutting down a machine which has NFS > filesystems mounted is impossible without a push on the hardware panic > button if the NFS server(s) in question does not respond, e.g. because > it's been shut down already. Unless you want to wait for dozens of > minutes, which are the NFS timeouts, that is. This situation sucks > hamsters with straws. Situation currently sucks rhino. Vik :v) -- /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign One of The Olliver Family \ / X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail http://olliver.family.gen.nz X / \ - NO MSWord docs in e-mail Public PGP key available there / \
