Re: no home-directory on diskless workstations

Hi,

sorry for all mails.. I checked out mount on tjener, for home it looks like this;
10.0.2.10:/home_edu on /skole/tjener/home0 type nfs (rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,addr=10.0.2.10)

If I go in to the chroot and do mount I see this;
/dev/mapper/vg_system-root on /srv/nfs4/home0 type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data="">
and this;
10.0.2.10:/home_edu on /skole/tjener/home0 type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=14,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.0.2.10,mountvers=3,mountport=33191,mountproto=udp,addr=10.0.2.10)

The first entry in chroot referring to /srv/nfs4/home0 I dont understand. The dir /srv inside the chroot is empty.. Nothing there.
Outside the chroot, on tjener, it contains subdirs like this: /srv/nfs4/home0 but home0 is empty...

When logging in to a thin client and after that issuing "mount" on tjener (outside chroot) this entry appears;
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /skole/tjener/home0/george/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=george)

Inside chroot I see this;
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /skole/tjener/home0/stutes/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1003,group_id=1003)

But when logging in to a diskless workstation no such thing appears. That I guess is ok?

Unfortunatley I cant try to make a manual mount from the diskless workstation because I cant gain root access. I can ping the nfs-server though. (10.0.2.10)

I hope my description is clear enough. This problem is starting to wear on my nerves.. Hoping someone can help.
Noone using san or nas for homedirs on debian-edu? If so, how have you set it up?

Sincerely /George

--- Den ons 2012-05-09 skrev George <joje47@yahoo.se>:

Från: George <joje47@yahoo.se>
Ämne: Re: no home-directory on diskless workstations
Till: debian-edu@lists.debian.org
Datum: onsdag 9 maj 2012 10:00

Hi Georg,

Tx for your advice.
I removed the client and recreated it with another ip, enabled dhcp, enabled dns and added it to nis-groups workstations and all-hosts.. Rebooted the workstation.

Still no luck. It does not mount the homedir..

I don't really know where to look next. Could it have anything to do with the /skole/tjener/home0 being mounted at the server from a nfs host? I dont think it should affect the exports from the chroot, but thats the only change Ive done with the homedir.

It works without a glitch when booting thin-clients from 192.168.1.0 network, and even when booting this workstation at the 10.0.0.0 network as a thinclient. But not when booting as a workstation.
I tried with another client also, but the same thing.
When going in to shell and looking at mtab I see a line like this;
tmpfs /home tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 00

thats the only reference to the home dir. If looking in to /skole/tjener it is empty. No home0
If looking in to /home it is also empty.

Hope someone has an idea /George

--- Den fre 2012-05-04 skrev Georg Damm <Georg.Damm@web.de>:

Från: Georg Damm <Georg.Damm@web.de>
Ämne: Re: no home-directory on diskless workstations [SOLVED]
Till: debian-edu@lists.debian.org
Datum: fredag 4 maj 2012 23:34

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

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