From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 28 09:55:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01132 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 09:55:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA01127 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 09:55:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 42492 invoked from network); 28 Nov 1998 17:54:22 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.183.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 28 Nov 1998 17:54:22 -0000 Received: from barnowl (apm7-219.realtime.net [204.96.0.219]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA12555; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:55:44 -0600 Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:05:40 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl To: Keyser Soze cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting up NIS and automount of user /home directories In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Keyser Soze wrote: > does anyone have a brief overview/tutorial on how to set this up? > This is what I want to do: http://www.realtime.net/sculpture (then follow the FreeBSD links) > Have a master NIS/NFS server, which also holds users /home/username > directories. Then have multiple client machines. Any user can login to any > client machine and /home/username will be mounted from the server > automatically. Also, do quotas work in this setup? > The above link should get you started with the NIS part of your plan. I have no experience with auto mounting (amd) but there has been a recent discussion in "questions". I do a similar thing to what you want but I just mount the file system containing the home directories when the client machines boot. I serve all of the major binaries over the LAN as well since some of the clients (old 386s) seem to run faster. (the squirrels don't need to run as much to turn the disks. ;-) ) Quota should also be able to run OK, but sorry again I don't run it. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message