[K12OSN] New FC3 server, how to export /home correctly?

R. Scott Belford scott at hosef.org
Tue May 10 17:22:49 UTC 2005


richard ingalls wrote:
> Finally, my nightmare with migrating to FC3 is over! 
> Hallelujah!  Angels are singing!  Here's what I did
> (thanks to everyone who helped out):
> 
> 1) Installed FC3 via NFS to 5 classroom servers (no
> firewall, no SELinux options).
> 2) Configured one classroom server to export /home to
> the others.  Used Webmin.
> 3) Created all the users' accounts via Webmin batch
> script.
> 4) Configured the other classroom servers to mount
> /home via NFS.  Used Webmin again.  (First add the
> /home server to hosts file via Webmin, then mount
> /home).
> 5) Copied group, gshadow *(that's new), passwd &
> shadow files from /etc/ on the /home server to /etc/
> on the other servers.
> 6) And it worked.


Well done and thanks for the concluding summary, Richard.  Yours is
becoming quite a success story.

--scott




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