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? > > >> > > > > > > ---- > > > 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? ---- 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
