Re: How To Create /home on a Network Drive

On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 01:39 -0500, Anthony Messina wrote:
On Saturday 09 May 2009 10:30:37 pm Robert L Cochran wrote:
I have two Fedora laptops. I would like to have my /home partition as a
separate partition on a network drive, such that when each laptop user
logs in, his or her /home/[user] directory is mounted from the network
drive. But I don't know how to do this. Suggestions?


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might not be a good idea if the laptop is detached from the network
but...

man nfs

man auto.home
man auto.master

I know that Red Hat Enterprise documentation covers this pretty well and
there might be some documentation on Fedora Wiki but I haven't looked.

Craig


I think my brain must have shut down for the night. I wouldn't have such
an easy time mounting /home in a restaurant, would I?

Thanks...

no, you're right about that, but i was thinking about this yesterday too. how
does one use their linux laptop like some of the coporate folks use their
windows laptops? when they're at the office, they use the profile on the
server; when they're away, they use the "roaming" copy of the profile.

does such a thing exist for us? i got to thinking about some crazy rsync
script that would run just before disconnecting and right after reconnecting
to the "home" network, but that's a kludge.

anyone doing something like the linux road warrior?
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well, not really but in anticipation of that and also to support the
various storage facilities I typically do this...

On the Main NFS server I have local hard drives which provide the
basic / file system. For storage, I typically mount /home/storage from
whatever (SAS, iSCSI, etc.) and this main server is also my main LDAP
server. LDAP users (which is just about everybody) are mounted
at /home/storage/users and the main file shares are
in /home/storage/files which are automounted via LDAP automounts. The
only users who have homes in /home are local user accounts which are
very few and only created for specific applications or daemons.

Thus on the laptop of some roaming user, I could have a local user with
the same uid and as his LDAP posix account but his home directory still
in /home which would still 'automount' the above users and files and
thus an rsync is certainly possible.

I suppose it's possible to have a generated, pre-shared ssh key so a
user could sync his local /home from his laptop to his $HOME directory
on the main NFS server but I tend to specifically not allow normal users
to ssh into servers for security reasons.

Craig


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