Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-12 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wednesday 12 November 2003 04:10, Tom Munro Glass wrote: Thanks Chris. Please take a look at my reply to Scott because the two of you seem to be suggesting contradicting ideas, and I'm keen to learn why! Have done. It's just my preference

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-12 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Thanks Chris and Scott for your input on this subject - I've found it most helpful. The freedom to tweak the system to your own way of working is great, and I now feel I am better informed on how to do this without doing anything radical that I will regret in years to come. Thanks again to

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Scott W
Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:31, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:53:20PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored in /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files that are

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 02:52, Tom Munro Glass wrote: I guessed there isn't a default, but I thought there might be a convention for this and I want to follow conventions where ever possible. I prefer to put things onto /usr/home (e.g.

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Depends on what philosophy you subscribe to- if it's on a local system only, then create a group for members that will need access to it, and create a directory in the /home tree, like /home/'project_foo If it's going to be NFS mounted by other systems, then create an /export directory and

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 19:38, Tom Munro Glass wrote: filesystem for /home, should I mount this at /home and make /usr/home a link to /home, or do I just mount it at /usr/home? The latter is probably preferable. - -- Cheers, Chris

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Scott W
Tom Munro Glass wrote: Depends on what philosophy you subscribe to- if it's on a local system only, then create a group for members that will need access to it, and create a directory in the /home tree, like /home/'project_foo If it's going to be NFS mounted by other systems, then create an

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Hi Tom- /usr doesn't _have_ to be mounted read-only, but it's not uncommon to do it on systems connected to the net/susceptible to hacking/just for security. Default Sun for home is /export home, primarily b/c Solaris thinks it's always the NFS server ;-) Most Linux distros use /home, and

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:47, Chris Howells wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 19:38, Tom Munro Glass wrote: filesystem for /home, should I mount this at /home and make /usr/home a link to /home, or do I just mount it at /usr/home? The latter is probably preferable. Thanks Chris. Please

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Scott W
Tom Munro Glass wrote: Hi Tom- /usr doesn't _have_ to be mounted read-only, but it's not uncommon to do it on systems connected to the net/susceptible to hacking/just for security. Default Sun for home is /export home, primarily b/c Solaris thinks it's always the NFS server ;-) Most Linux

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-10 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:53:20PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored in /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files that are common to many users? Would this be something like /usr/home/public or

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-10 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:31, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:53:20PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored in /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files that are common to many users?