Re: [zones-discuss] Add user in a zone - best practice

2010-01-09 Thread Jim Klimov
Kind of a divergence from original post, but a summary of one of its subjects regarding NFS mounts within one system: I'd like to thank FrankB for a fruitful off-list discussion leading me to these bugs below regarding NFS server being its own NFS client, global- or local-zoned, due to contenti

Re: [zones-discuss] Add user in a zone - best practice

2009-12-31 Thread Frank Batschulat (Home)
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:02:33 +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: > While I have seen many warnings explicitly noting that an NFS server should > never be its own client >(including sharing global shares to local zones), I confess I have failed to >find any specific grounds for that. simplified reasons a

Re: [zones-discuss] Add user in a zone - best practice

2009-12-31 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello, ron In general you are correct, but there's a nuance: Mark's users are to be added in a local zone. That generally means he has no NFS/kernel-CIFS server inside it, while having an FTP or SSH server (and possibly SAMBA, I didn't check). So he can indeed use the automounter to mount the h

Re: [zones-discuss] Add user in a zone - best practice

2009-12-30 Thread Ron Halstead
Mark, In Solaris/OpenSolaris, /home is the automounter's mount point for home directories. You could put home directories in /export/home or you could use the automounter. Home directories are still created in /export/home but the automounter mounts them in /home, using the guidelines below. Th