Topic: Suggestions wanted ...

[lucv]

Hi,

We have the following setup:

3 SME-servers with each 3 NIC's. They serve local networks give access to the internet and route between the 3 servers. There are 4 network segments (192.168.0 - 192.168.1 - 192.168.2 - 172.16.0 ) The 192 networks are on different locations. The 172 is a wireless network which connects these locations. All can 'talk' to one another and files can be shared.
One of the servers (192.168.0) is the mail-server for the whole network. The client PC's are all windows based (Xp,2000,98,95). All 3 locations have a different domain set and the local clients log into that.

What we want to do is to share the users so that user administration is simplified. I've tried NIS which works fine but users cannot login to the domain then because of homedirs and profiles not found etc.
Is one domain server with 2 'slave-domain-servers' the way to go? Is there another possibility of exchanging users. I don't think rsync is an option because of the time slip (i.e. sync passwd, accounts, groups every 15 minutes or so).
Any suggestions? And how do we do it!

Tnx in advance!


Luc

[Knuddi]

Hi,

I am using NFS automounts for a similar setup. The homedirs are physically located on one server (Server02) only and all the others are NFS mounting to that.

The server that holds the physical home dirs are also the NIS Master and the others slaves.

Your auto.master should look something like this:

/home/e-smith/files/users   /etc/auto.home

and the auto.home

*  -fstype=nfs,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,suid,udp  server02:/home/e-smith/files/users/&

Rgds,
Jesper

[lucv]

I am using NFS automounts for a similar setup.

Tnx for your help. Could you explain "automount" for me. I don't seem to find much info on it.

[Knuddi]

the function is autofs which dynamically mounts when there is a need for it.

This link explains a little about it:
http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-adv/nfs.htm

[lucv]

the function is autofs which dynamically mounts when there is a need for it.

This link explains a little about it:
http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-adv/nfs.htm

Tnx. Great site btw.