On Thursday 01 September 2005 06:53, David Mackintosh wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:39:20PM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > Here are the options I'm considering: > > Actually, the answer is to do both (or neither). > > What we do is put the real home directories somewhere else (like > /export/disk1/home), and export that. Then you populate the > automount maps for NIS (auto.master and auto.home) so that whenever a > process tries to use /home/$foo, it is mounted from > $server:/export/disk/$foo. This means that the setup is consistant > across all systems, including the nfs server. Thanks. I guess auto.master and auto.home are what I am looking for. RDB