-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anders Johansson wrote: > 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
Which is the main point..management... Automount now that I am aware of it I can see is a tool that provides one part of the equation, but not a complete answer.. (but the documentation does observe that it has some limitations ... ) I used to run Netware NDS setup with a couple of remote sites, a few hundred workstations, several thousand user accounts, charged printer services and a few other bits and pieces. Everything from application configuration to login scripts could be maintained in the directory, for network administrators snmb, router, radius and firewall management can done through the directory, AD does much the same (although it was a bit of a cripple then, and is probably still a cripple now). With NTs user profile management (which is still very flakey in places) one could do a lot more than define filestore resources (e.g. make certain that printing went to a local shared printer rather than halfway across the building). To even contemplate this file distribution idea makes me shudder, there is too much that could go wrong, and if it could go wrong it probably will go wrong. In the situation where on annual basis one needed to create and set couple of thousand of accounts, and delete a similar number each year and dealt with a steady flow of new accounts this is not a workable concept. You something like NISS, AD or LDAP just to keep your sanity... OpenLDAP I would expect to move towards this kind of functionality, if they have not got it closer already (is about a year since I last looked at it, and it looked as if work had still to be done)... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHC+LOasN0sSnLmgIRAvSjAKCfPFj+610FKSdktzvzFS9A7+w9BQCdHBih Ey+0Rm0JC/gobT1172Z07ng= =RrjG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
