Re: Setting up 20 equal linux boxes

[Paul Miller <pmiller@unt.edu>]

Konrad Mierendorff wrote:
We operate a 28 node network here. As your network, there is one file server to
export home directories for NFS mounting. The autofs package and Kernel level
automounting are used to mount the file server when a user logs in.

As for defining a user-database. This needs to be on the file server so that NFS
will work properly. The UIDs of the clients must match the UIDs of the file
server so that each user gets rights to the proper files. We use NIS to
accomplish this. NIS can be used to distribute many bits of info like
/etc/passwd, /etc/hosts, /etc/auto.amnt (autofs map), and more. 

Hope this helps,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> at my school we are running a Linux server which serves as a
> file-/http-server/internetgateway/WinNT-Domain-Master at the moment. In
> the near future we will get about 20 new machines which will run Linux
> (Debian of course).
> 
> To allow flexible usage the home direcories of all users should be
> stored on the fileserver and should be mounted when users log into the
> clients. The User-Database could be an LDAP-Server.
> 
> If anyone has experience with such things please send me your comments,
> tell me if there is information available or tell me that I should take
> a different approach.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> - Konrad Mierendorff
> 
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