[K12OSN] remote home directories

Brandon Kovach bkovach at logrog.net
Thu Sep 8 15:50:22 UTC 2005


Thanks for all the help, Pete and Brian.  It's all done now.  And working!
 :)

> I don't know anything about NIS, but I can learn.
>
> I was originally trying to authenticate to my Netware server, but couldn't
> make NCPFS work correctly.  At one point I had it working ... kinda ...
> but it blocked everyone else from the servers.  All of them.  I decided
> that I had enough time in that one and had done enough damage that I
> needed to move on to another solution for now.
>
>> That's a shame makes this sort of thing easy, what about using NIS quite
>> simply to setup.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> Brandon Kovach wrote:
>>
>>>No.
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>>>>Are you running LDAP on your main server ??
>>>>
>>>>Brian
>>>>
>>>>Brandon Kovach wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>That's exactly it.  However, I don't have any users on the second
>>>>>machine.
>>>>>I know I need to sync the users, but I don't know how to do that ...
>>>>>yet.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>>Not sure what page you're referring to, but if you just export the
>>>>>> /home
>>>>>>directory on
>>>>>>one server:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>exportfs -o rw :/home
>>>>>>
>>>>>>and then on the other machine mount that export:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>mount machine1:/home /home
>>>>>>
>>>>>>you should be good to go, assuming the user's UIDs are the same on
>>>>>> both
>>>>>>machines.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Petre
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Brandon Kovach wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I lost my page about how to get home directories from one K12 server
>>>>>>>remote mounted to the other server.  Can anyone provide me the page?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>BK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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