On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 07:56, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > I have to Linux Distributions on clients within my network. It SuSE 10.0 > and Fedore Core 5. Some users switch from one to another. I mount /home > from a nfs- server and have nis enabled. As it is no good to mount the > same home into two differen distributions I made a /home/fc5 directory > within the nfs- server and make seperat homes for the fc5 users in there > and mount it as /home on fc5. It may or may not be a problem to share /home between distributions. It would depend on the versions of applications involved and whether their config files were compatible. > What I need is the directory /home/Documents within the /home/user and > /home/fc5/user to be in sync. There are few enough users to make a > solution by hand. I tried a symlink, but unfortunately the clients can't > follow, because the target isn't mounted on fc5 clients anyway. (link > was /home/user/Documents to /home/fc5/user/Documents) And I can't > hardlink a directory. > > In short I need a client to follow a link to a directory which is not > mounted on it, but just available on the server. You can either mount the /home/fc5 directory on each client so the symlink will work or use the automounter to mount the appropriate /home/fc5/user/Documents directory in the right place on demand. I'm not sure how Suse handles automounting, but look at fedora's /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.net to see how you can make an access to /net/servername/path automatically mount it for you, then make the Documents directory a symlink to the appropriate /net/host/path. That way the mount only happens when someone accesses that directory. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
