On Saturday 17 Apr 2004 23:37 pm, Liam Marshall wrote:
1 Authentication from the server (NIS? maybe) How to doc would be nice
NIS will work out-of-the-box and is very reliable IME. The NIS HOWTO is included in the installation media.
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
This is very doable with NFS, but for 500 users I would suggest breaking the exported home directories down into groups, probably cy class would be most convenient. So on the server you would have: /home/class1/user1 /home/class1/user2 : /home/classn/user1 : etc. Then export the /home/classx directories. I would also consider using autofs4 to automatically mount the relevant class directory on the clients. HTH Dylan -- "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" -Dark Helmet