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[nav882]

hi our company has altogether 15 systems.now the thing is that any user ahould be able to access his account on any machine.and his home directory should reside in his particular system.So what are the steps to be taken to achieve this.Explain briefly

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

You might want to go to a model whereby no matter where a user logs in their home directory is the same place, perhaps central storage.

A NAS device can provide the disk space and you can use NIS, or LDAP to set up users home directory to be on the central NAS device no matter where they log in.

Here is our system.

Storage EMC (We're big)
NFS is used to provide acccess.
A NIS master server maintains softlinks from for the users home directory to NFS. This enables us to move the users data around while /home/username is still the home directory.

ex: /diskstorage/disk611 appears to the user as /home/username. We can move the underlying data ot /diskstorage/disk612 and change the soft link and the user never knows the data moved.

Its really very simple and will work just as well when we move to LDAP.

SEP

[nav882]

thnks,but how to set this up and can u provide any links which talks about this in detail