NFS and NIS and automounting ??

[JJ Neff]

I forgot is I use /mnt/home as my local mount location for home directories, is
it better to make /home a symlink to /mnt/home or change (NIS) passwd to have
the users home drive /mnt/home/<user>?

JJN
--- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm reading the NFS howto and it makes some stuff much clearer.  My earlier
> errors may be due to lockd or statd not runnign on teh server or client or
> both.  I will check when I'm home.  Also it refers to using netgroups and
> points to teh NIS HOWTO to explain netgroups, but the HOWTO doesn't explain
> netgroups or any of the maps that can be used.  
> 
> How do I get the groups users, audio, cdrom, usb, xgrp all enabled for NIS
> mapped users?  The only group I'm in on my client is jjneff?  Any web pages
> that explain the maps clearly?
> 
> AUOTMOUNTING.  Pros and ons of autofs and AMD?  Both are mentioned in NFS
> Howto
> and I want to know what you've experienced with them both...
> 
> Thanks for any info.
> 
> ALSO more real-world examples would help. Is it best to use
> /exports/home/<users> as the exported home directories and keep a real /home
> on
> your NFS server?  Also is it best to mount the exported home directories to
> /mnt/home to follow standards, if so then isn't it OK to just use fstb to
> mount
> server:/exports/home to /mnt/home at boot up and not worry about automount?
> 
> Let me know what you've run into... thanks
> 
> JJN
> 
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