Alkis, thanks for your response. Mine is inline.

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Alkis Georgopoulos <[email protected]> wrote:

> The output of the `id` command, which shows the groups you belong to,
> should be the same in both the server and the client.

Client:
david@ren:~$ id
uid=1000(david) gid=1000(david)
groups=1000(david),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),106(lpadmin)

Server:
david@slab:~$ id
uid=1000(david) gid=1000(david)
groups=1000(david),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),105(lpadmin),106(sambashare),107(admin)

Close enough, I take it. I understand from your email that sudo isn't
expected to work. Fair enough.


> NFS_HOME=/home means "I exported the server /home in /etc/exports. When
> the client boots, I want it to mount the NFS share to its /home".
> If that doesn't happen for you, you either configured something wrong,
> or have hit a bug somewhere.

Silly me. I installed nfs-kernel-server on the server and nfs-common
in the chroot but forgot to modify the exports file. When my home
directory was mounted by default I didn't think to go back and
troubleshoot nfs. Now that I have done that the NFS_HOME option works
as expected.


> LDM_DIRECTX is for X traffic. It has nothing to do with rsync, nfs,
> sshfs and fat clients. Fat clients use local displays, so they don't
> cause any X traffic on the network.

Interesting. Now that /home is mounted via nfs I don't see ssh or
sshfs in the processes list during bulk transfers. For example 'dd
if=/dev/nbd0 of=/dev/null' now produces nearly double the network
throughput. The client CPU is still the limiting factor here, but
nbdproxy is the biggest hog, and less of a hog than ssh and sshfs were
previously.


> Indeed LDM does not support user switching.

Too bad for me. Is there a way to hack in user switching support (for
dummies)? Can I use something other than LDM to get this
functionality?

Thanks again for your help. I really like the fat client concept and
it appears to work well.

db

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