On Tuesday 09 October 2007 17:52:09 G T Smith wrote: > John E. Perry wrote: > > G T Smith wrote: > >> ...NT user accounts are > >> frequently dynamically created on the local machine on login and the > >> account removed on logout, accounts and their settings exist on the > >> network NOT the machine (I am unaware of anything similar on *NIX). The > >> approach has its problems but works well enough... > > > > After all the really good stuff you've contributed, this is a real > > shocker, so maybe I'm not understanding what you're saying. > > > > I worked in a facility a few years ago (late '90's) where there were > > dozens of antique Suns, of the 10MHz Sparc, 128M RAM, 50MB disk variety, > > and a few late-model, high-power machines. We got a new sysadmin who, > > within a few days, had us all set up with an nfs-shared central home > > directory on a large, fast machine. We could log in from anywhere in > > the facility and have our own complete working environment, with all our > > personal environment, file structure, and home-based programs. I even > > had him set up my machine (one of the slowest, smallest, oldest) to work > > as an X-terminal to one of the largest, most powerful, but little used > > machines, and the only difference between running my applications on the > > Ultra and on my klunky little desktop was that my machine had only 256 > > colors available for display. > > > > Doesn't this qualify as dynamically created on the local machine? and on > > the intermediate machine? Solaris is unix, you're aware? > > > > John Perry > > Sorry, had come across this now that you remind me (I think it was > called yellow pages, Suntools or something and was not pure NFS but had > a network administrative layer of some sort... ).. I had completely > forgotten about it!... must be going senile :-/ ..
It has nothing to do with the directory. AD, NDS, LDAP or Yellow Pages have absolutely nothing to do with this kind of automatic mounting. It's just a simpler way of centrally administering the whole thing (saves having to copy round lots of config files, /etc/passwd and so on), but it's perfectly doable, albeit more cumbersome, without -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
