From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 03:25:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA28358 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 03:25:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk (hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk [147.143.102.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA28348 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 03:25:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Mr D Whitehead Message-Id: <15141.9608081025@hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk> Received: from adam.sees (adam.sees.bangor.ac.uk) by hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk; Thu, 8 Aug 96 11:25:35 BST Subject: Home Directory Mounting To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 11:25:34 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi All, My appologies if this is not felt to be the right forum for this question but as my problem has been caused by the success of FreeBSD on this site I thought I would try here first. We have a mixture of Sun's and PC's with home directories served from several partitions on serveral Sun's via an amd map of of the general form:- /defaults type:=nfs;rfs:=${autodir}/${rhost}/home/${group};fs:=${rfs};sublink:=${key};opts:=rw,intr,noconn tom rhost:=foo0;group:=bar0 dick rhost:=foo1;group:=bar1 harry rhost:=foo2;group:=bar2 This system has worked well, and makes the user's home directory available on any machine that they have login access. Recently several users have requested that spare disk space on their 'personal' machines (i.e. the machines that they normally use) be made available as additional home directory space. Is there a neat way to do this? The constraints are as follows:- 1) This only applies to a small percentage of users. 2) Some of the 'personal' machines are not always running FreeBSD. 3) The solution needs to be as invisible and reliable as the existing home directory mounting. Dave Whitehead ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMAIL:- | TELEPHONE (work):- (work) davew@sees.bangor.ac.uk | +44 1248 382703 (Direct line) (home) 100023.1076@compuserve.com | +44 1248 351151 ext 2703 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SNAIL MAIL:- Dave Whitehead School of Electronic Engineering & Computer Systems, University College of North Wales, Dean Street, Bangor LL57 1UT ------------------------------------------------------------------------