[klug] Shared /home over LAN

[Nathan Cook]

You will need to setup a NIS server and then the NIS clients. It's too 
much detail to go into here but have a look here: 
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/index.html

There is plenty there to keep you going for a few nights, I would set up 
2 PCs to test and run through a few scenarios before going live, I can 
if you like lend you my spare PC for a few weeks if need be, it's not 
much but will do the trick for testing (500mhz, 256mb RAM, 40gb HDD).

Regards

Nathan

klug.member.lancer at xoxy.net wrote:

> Can anyone point me to where I can learn how to make a shared /home 
> directory over a LAN setup like in our school? The guy who set that up 
> did a nice job and all but there are some fairly major bugs and he's 
> hard to get hold of. To be honest, I'm starting to get frustrated by 
> the errors and the inability to get hold of him, but I don't want to 
> go into too much detail on a public forum like this and think it's 
> best if I start all over but learn to do things for myself.
>
> Basically, I want to know how to make one machine the file server, 
> where the /home dirs are linked to the drive on that machine, so all 
> saved work from students goes to one place instead of being duplicated 
> on each machine, individual permissions intact. Obviously adding new 
> student accounts etc will have to have identical user IDs. I'm not 
> sure if I also want to share other DIRs like /bin etc. Common 
> permissions would be nice (e.g: I can ban any student from playing a 
> given game setting permissions on only one computer).
>
> I am not wanting to make a dumb terminal situation where the central 
> computer has to be really powerful, or one computer has to do all the 
> hard drive / memory tasks of the many machines - that would slow 
> everyone down. /home access is all I'm really wanting at least for now.
>
> I am also interested in the antiporn set up as mentioned before (like 
> having one machine as the internet gateway for the others) but for now 
> setting up the LAN /home dir is my priority. I understand the network 
> guru used LDAP for the current setup, but my experience in this is zilch.
>
> Can anyone point me to where I can learn this stuff fast enough to 
> have set it up myself within the next week or so? (e.g: not a large 
> thesis of many possibilities - I am a slow reader). Last time I asked 
> a forum this I explained what I wanted in great detail, and all I got 
> was "your network - up to youy how you go about it", which was not 
> helpful.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Lance.
>
> _______________________________________________
> KLUG mailing list
> KLUG at linux.net.nz
> http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klug
>
>
>