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I'd like to help (well, after finals; so I'll be available in about 5 weeks time).
Ah. Well before I go any further I'll just point out that I'm a final year A-Level student, and have my A-Levels in may, so they have got to come first priority.
I don't study GNVQ IT myself, but the final straw came when I heard that the school had just bought VB to teach their students (they were origignally going to teach C++ or Delphi but couldn't afford the site licenses.
That's odd considering /usr/bin/g++ is a C++ compiler and the man page is dated 30 April 1993.
Or simply have /home NFS mounted automatically at boot time, rather than at login time.
The reason for doing it at login is so that each users home directory will appear in the same place in the local file system. So even if the home directory was //server1/user1 or //server1/user2 it would always appear as /home/user. etc.
This sounds very much like the way Windows does things, which dosn't really make a lot of sense. Consider the following. Output of df -t nfs Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on stpeters-1:/var/qmail 4096380 2740008 1356372 67% /var/qmail/mnt stpeters-1:/var/sqwebmail 4096380 2740008 1356372 67% /var/sqwebmail stpeters-1:/home/staff 16126420 6041536 9265576 39% /home/staff stpeters-1:/home/other 1011928 144996 815528 15% /home/other stpeters-1:/home/comeduc 4032092 773084 3054184 20% /home/comeduc stpeters-a:/home/1998 27692232 5123756 22282600 19% /home/1998 stpeters-b:/home/1999 27692232 7896172 19510184 29% /home/1999 stpeters-c:/home/2000 27692232 4640680 22765676 17% /home/2000 stpeters-d:/home/2001 27692232 2193496 25212860 8% /home/2001 None of the user files reside on this machine. But everthing works as though they are. Because the path to every user's home directory is always the same. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763