Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 00:04:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: <kellers@njit.edu> Subject: NFS/NIS... arg! Message-ID: <20020706235347.Y14336-100000@serv1.wallnet.com>
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I've got courses to teach FreeBSD in FreeBSD coming up Real Soon Now. I've set up our instructional lab to use NIS/NFS from a master server so that all the student UID's are authenticated from the same server and have their home directories mounted on the same, central, server. The problem is that the NIS/NFS combination is way too slow. It's far from "snappy" in the command line environment and in Desktop mode (one of the last sections in the curriculum is "Advanced Desktops") loading is so slow it's as though time itself has stopped. Are there any alternatives to the NIS/NFS combo in FreeBSD land? I've heard from some of the SUN admins in the University that AFS is far superior to NFS in handling remote home directoried and that it's "tolerable" in loading remote desktops (KDE --yes I know it's an I/O resource hog-- in particular). In December I managed to successfully build OpenAFS, but I never got it to properly install. Has there been any progress with OpenAFS, or is there another alternative to centralized login/home directories for FreeBSD of which I'm not aware. Thanks in advance for any suggeswtions y'all might have. Tim Kellers IT Liasion Continuing Education New Jersey Institute of Technology kellers@njit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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