Re: Multiple Servers tied together
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley(a)pcraft.com> wrote:
We're going to split out main server up into 3, possibly more with
backup redundancy. The basic setup will be 1 server (USER) holding
everyone's physical account, 1 server (MAIL) which holds everyone's mail
spool (INBOXES only), and 1 server (WEB) that will hold everyone's web
space. A user should be able to log into their account on the USER
server and be able to access their data which resides on MAIL and WEB.
I figured I can use autofs to mount the NFS folders as needed when a
user logs in and out. However, what I'm stuck with right now is the
user space replication.
At the moment, our old server is using NIS+ so that another machine
can verify that someone exists, however that's all it does. If I
continue with that approach, I will have to manually create folders each
time on the other machines each time we add a new user. I don't know if
there's another way of doing that. But I guess the question here is, do
we stick with NIS+ since it's been working for us in like forever, or
should I start looking at other options? Ideally I just want one master
server that contains all the user information (and that will be the one
they physically log in to) and then have the other ones automatically
create and share folders as needed. I realize I'm going to be writing
scripts to make this happen, but before I go that far, I wanted to see
what kind of input I will receive from this group.
What's the best approach to this? Switch to something other than
NIS+? LDAP maybe (I know zip of LDAP, so that may be a stumbling
block.) Another way to link the machines? Anything?
Thanks!
Use NFS, mount the user directories on all 3 machines in the same
location under the same path.
Use NIS to share the login info and such, user can then login to any
machine and all should look the same.
Why are you needing to replicate the users dirs?