Re: Home directories: local(fast) x remote(secure, available)

2008-10-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Carlos, Am 2008-10-10 10:55:22, schrieb Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe: Hi, Mr Konzack, Mrs. ;-) Thank you very much for your time and guidance. In fact, our cabling is in poor condition, right now, so we're budgeting to replace all of it soon, with a new CAT6 harness. I'll arrange to

Re: Home directories: local(fast) x remote(secure, available)

2008-10-10 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
Hi, Mr Konzack, Thank you very much for your time and guidance. In fact, our cabling is in poor condition, right now, so we're budgeting to replace all of it soon, with a new CAT6 harness. I'll arrange to replace also the switches - that will allow us to move to GB ethernet in the workstations

Re: Home directories: local(fast) x remote(secure, available)

2008-09-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-08-29 15:18:59, schrieb Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe: Dear Srs, ??? I have a bunch of machines (20) and users (~15) working in a develoment facility. I like to keep home directories inside the server room - they're mounted via NFS. Which is OK. This give me short times for

Home directories: local(fast) x remote(secure, available) - updated

2008-09-02 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
I have been doing some homework, and I have found some info on Caching NFS clients. Well what abou that? Does anyone of those caching clients out there has became more than research stuff? Is there a debian way to do that kind of stuff? Cheers, Joao On Friday 29 August 2008 15:18, Joao Carlos

Re: Home directories: local(fast) x remote(secure, available)

2008-09-02 Thread Eric Gerlach
I've heard that using the Coda filesystem can do what you're looking for. I've used its predecessor, OpenAFS, with success and people seem to like Coda for exactly what you're looking for. http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ They have APT repositories in the Downloads section. I have no idea how

Home directories: local(fast) x remote(secure, available)

2008-08-29 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
Dear Srs, I have a bunch of machines (20) and users (~15) working in a develoment facility. I like to keep home directories inside the server room - they're mounted via NFS. This give me short times for disaster recovery, since the desktop machines can be recovered with partimage, and all