NFS home.. how to

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Hi,

looking for a brief description of the tasks and gotchas for setting up a large user remote home directory environment via NFS.

Up to now I do this with sam, but would prefer to know where to better tune/automate.

Thanks,
Bill

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi:

By far, the best way to do this is via NIS to manage the automount maps. If you don't already have it (and you should), run out and get a copy of the O'reilly book 'Managing NFS and NIS'. It will take you through all the steps.

[S.K. Chan]

I have 2 reference doc that I've used before to tune and troubleshoot NFS performance issue which I think will be helpful to you.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi
Bill

Watch out for:-

1. Different NFS versions. (10.2 / 11.00 by default v2 and v3)

2. Do not hard mount the exported file systems as a down export server will cause the mount server to contine to try to mount the missing export.

3. On the export server define the servers allowed to remote mount the exported file system.


HTH

Paula

[Helen French]

Hi Bill,

The best option is as Clay suggested, using AUTOMOUNT and NIS:

1) Configure NIS and NFS
2) Configure AUTOMOUNT

Important files you need to take care of:

1) /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf
2) /etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs
3) /etc/auto_master
4) ypfiles

Check this guide and read the steps of autmount under Configuring and Administering NFS:

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/B1031-90048.html

Gotchas:

You need to make sure that you have installed all NFS/NIS patches before doing this.

HTH,
Shiju

[Sachin Patel · Accepted solution]

Hi Bill,
Make sure you have very strong systems. Until now we used to use two c360 for same purpose. We have 400 user(100 is active all the time) and now it dies very often. We are loooking to replace with j or N class with lots of disks.

And yes NIS/NFS/automount is the best way.

Sachin