teewurstmann
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Best way to mount remote home directories
Hi!
Ok, I have a difficult problem:
We have a Gentoo Linux/Solaris 2.8 environment. Our user's home directories are on the Solaris box and are being used via NFS.
We are not happy with NFS anymore, so we are looking for alternatives. We were thinking about Samba. The authentication happens via NIS.
What is the best way to automatically map the remote home directories for each user when he/she logs in. (for example via SSH or directly at the workstation).
I guess the mapping of the home directory for each user must happen before the system-logon is complete because config files reside in the the home dirs (.zprofile, for example).
Please help me with specific answers. Stuff like "you could use AFS", doesn't help, I know that myself. I need a spefic answer to my specific problem.
Thank you so much!
Ok, I have a difficult problem:
We have a Gentoo Linux/Solaris 2.8 environment. Our user's home directories are on the Solaris box and are being used via NFS.
We are not happy with NFS anymore, so we are looking for alternatives. We were thinking about Samba. The authentication happens via NIS.
What is the best way to automatically map the remote home directories for each user when he/she logs in. (for example via SSH or directly at the workstation).
I guess the mapping of the home directory for each user must happen before the system-logon is complete because config files reside in the the home dirs (.zprofile, for example).
Please help me with specific answers. Stuff like "you could use AFS", doesn't help, I know that myself. I need a spefic answer to my specific problem.
Thank you so much!
Sry that was windows mount :)
/usr/bin/smbclient \\\\compname\\share <pass>
/rob
/usr/bin/smbclient \\\\compname\\share <pass>
/rob
I think i must be drunk :/
/usr/sbin/smbmount //your-nt-box-name/home /home/$USER
man smbmount for more details.
Dont realy know the perfect place to put the command.
/Rob
/usr/sbin/smbmount //your-nt-box-name/home /home/$USER
man smbmount for more details.
Dont realy know the perfect place to put the command.
/Rob
ASKER
Thank you for your replies, but that's not helping.
I don't have an NT box. I only have Linux and Solaris boxes.
And the users shouldn't have to mount anything themselves, it should happen automatically when they log in.
I don't have an NT box. I only have Linux and Solaris boxes.
And the users shouldn't have to mount anything themselves, it should happen automatically when they log in.
Yes but thats the command to use in Linux but im investigating where to put it because the reason you sad your self, that some of the settings files f.ex. .tcshrc and .bashrc is in the users home directory.
And it has to be mounted before the user cwd to that dir in the login script.
Why arent you pleased with nfs ?
/Rob
And it has to be mounted before the user cwd to that dir in the login script.
Why arent you pleased with nfs ?
/Rob
I getting old the best way to mount the home dirs is to mount the all users sirectorys f.ex.
if you have your users home dir on the server in /home/users
then just mount the /home/users at startup of the clients thn you dont have to remount the dirs at every login.
This is the way they mount home dirs at work(but they run nfs):
home:/export/homes/di99 /home/di99 nfs hard,intr,grpid,quota,prot
My home dir is f.ex. /home/di99/di99rmd and all this is mounted at startup.
/Rob
if you have your users home dir on the server in /home/users
then just mount the /home/users at startup of the clients thn you dont have to remount the dirs at every login.
This is the way they mount home dirs at work(but they run nfs):
home:/export/homes/di99 /home/di99 nfs hard,intr,grpid,quota,prot
My home dir is f.ex. /home/di99/di99rmd and all this is mounted at startup.
/Rob
Using Samba to access home dirs on the Solaris server is going to slower and cause a higher load on the Solaris server than using NFS would be.
Why are you "not happy with NFS anymore"?
Why are you "not happy with NFS anymore"?
ASKER
Thanks for all of your responses so far.
Well, to be honest, I don't really know why my boss doesn't want to use NFS anymore. I think he said that Samba is "more secure". Is that true?
And Rob: Thanks for all your replies, but once again: It's not just about the starting of the client _machine_, the home dirs should also be mapped correctly if I just SSH directly into the Solaris box.
Well, to be honest, I don't really know why my boss doesn't want to use NFS anymore. I think he said that Samba is "more secure". Is that true?
And Rob: Thanks for all your replies, but once again: It's not just about the starting of the client _machine_, the home dirs should also be mapped correctly if I just SSH directly into the Solaris box.
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>And Rob: Thanks for all your replies, but once again: It's not just about the starting of the client _machine_, the home >dirs should also be mapped correctly if I just SSH directly into the Solaris box.
They will be, because they are always mounted on all machines from bootup untill shutdown.
/Rob
They will be, because they are always mounted on all machines from bootup untill shutdown.
/Rob
net use H: \\conmpname\sharename
/Rob