NFS and NIS and automounting ??

[Darin Perusich]

you should not make /home a link to /mnt/home. when you log into a
system the autmount daemon will handle mounting server:/mnt/home/$USER
to /home/$USER. on your linux server you should have a process for this,
it looks like:
	/usr/sbin/automount /home yp auto.home -nobrowse 

create a global NIS group and make it your primary group, it will follow
you from system to system.

JJ Neff wrote:
> 
> 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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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com