-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 April 2004 18:37, Liam Marshall wrote: [...]
Some key features I need to implement.
1 Authentication from the server (NIS? maybe) How to doc would be nice
Yast, SUSE's all in one configuration tool, makes setting up a NIS server and clients really easy. Just try it.
2 Home directories served up from the server, not each workstation. This is a biggie. With over 500 kids and the very real problem of them having to share the same 35 workstations, I do not want to have to have their files anywhere but on the server. With Samba and windows workstations this was easy. Authenticate and map the "homes" directories to a drive they could access on their workstations. Of course this "homes" directory in Samba was pointing to the equivelent Unix user's home directory on the server
I think you'd do this through NFS; there may be some performance concerns, but since I've never had to deal with networks bigger than 4 boxes and with 2 users (my wife and I), I don't have any better ideas. I'd serve all home dirs from one server (which seems to be what you've been doing with samba, so I guess the load with NFS should be comparable, but I'm really just guessing). Again, yast makes it very, very simple to set up NFS servers and clients. If you open yast, go to the network services section, you'll see that the setup process is pretty much self explanatory. Good luck! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBQIHsm96AspoXaofZAQIxAg//R8dJs5uNNtO4EduqvjpE5Th4OAbOzoH+ JegY5OMtV+Vy5bziH9prmzJTIPB5pDvritboa+o6k9cmarBlVhGOn+U7yVbGwJmb 07nxM5yYL2Ld69xE0b7dWlN1fnKhFvAvxcVql8FCwkFdT0qLsKpJeEdB5feT0CAb 9aqJ1QYvApu5tV75yhQwq0qTkQ9UlViC3NB35BRCtDF4SK0gc6CqRKFhdafrOgjH 4T6lDPlBEE1b6FUCNRDD3y9fJys7O2Osu9zeQn0Ty7wcnhBF0tALCiXWLCPNQSGS +WmjU0uVqFcy7ANEmjdE5gkpNaSYNNSpyENjHUrAiA9qb0YvPbMJyjxcWKXoVxvb 1pQCDtAm2iCN+bbWRq5bq2i/pGT9PF0iRpYFT56FOu1x33Q9qhC9Uebg0B20jkFs /TECDl3WLGI/FAVYYqcQpZQdJiYQYgQ+ARH3bJkhQhrZrXxhn4lu1qg9Hv5wwAqB q6qZzmyY5+YrOHAJDG+1N1wYYRwp1eH4RtN0rMZXcbCJUqvlvIQ/4N17STEX3jel 2mTpwcHtf/6F1wLezWDwNObo3c/rYI7ofrza2lDj5jjyEZKLnWzjadWEMikw7zNG /lov80UoS4qCFiuVcjyuyYdo1xS8mpBeG79LsCQBuVL4QLRuAgVuMMAT2vfvKqqj icCULeGhIU0= =wsJQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----