home directories fedora directoryserver

[rob at Mokkinksystems.com]

> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:59:57 -0700
> From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com>
> Subject: Re: home directories fedora directoryserver
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> Rob Mokkink wrote:
>>
>>
>> With the console i create users etc.
>>
>> In the section posix user, you have got the option home directory:
>> I tried using nfs something like this dcsrv1:/nfshome/test02
>>
>> Nfs server is up and running etc.
>>
>> On the client I configured auto.misc with the entry:
>> nfshome  -rw,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 dssrv1:/nfshome
>
> This process is documented here:
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-nfs-client-config.html
>
> Basically, if you want home directories in /nfshome, then you need to
> first put /nfshome in auto.master and refer to the "auto.home" file,
> which you should then create.  That file should contain one line which
> maps the home directories:
>
> *  -fstype=nfs,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid
> server.example.com:/home/&
>
> Users home directories don't need any weird specs, just put the local
> path in their home directory field (e.g. "/nfshome/test02").  autofs
> will take care of the rest.
>
>
>


Ok i have got it working now.

Thanks a lot.

Next challenge password synchronisation with active directory.