Re: no home-directory on diskless workstations [SOLVED]

[Georg Damm <Georg.Damm@web.de>]

Hi,

> Sorry if I hijack your thread. If so, let me know, I will start a new.
> 
> I have a  similar problem. In diskless workstations I dont get home dir...
> 
> If I log in to a shell on the diskless workstation and do
> cat /etc/mtab
> I see an entry showing that tjener.intern:/home0 is mounted at
> /skole/tjener/home0 but that dir is empty.. Nothing seems to be mounted.
> 
> The workstation is added to workstation-hosts  nis-group in Gosa2
> 
> I guess my problem is that I removed the lvm-group skole+tjener+home0 and
> mounted the /skole/tjener/home0 to a nfs share like this:
> 10.0.2.10:/home_edu /skole/tjener/home0 nfs
> rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr          0       0 That works very
> nicely with thinclients.. Maybe it causes a problem with how skolelinux
> exports the homedir to discless workstations?
> 
> Even I would like to know more about how discless workstation mounts there
> homedir..
> 
> I guess there has to be other people putting the homedir outside the server
> installation? If so, does it work for you? (So I can exlcude that from the
> list of probable causes..)

it helped to assign a different IP to the diskless workstation in gosa. After 
adding it again to the  nis-group workstation-hosts in Gosa2 
/skole/tjener/home0 is mounted.

Georg