NFS on E-Smith
I need help. Here's my situation. I'm currently running an E-Smith box
as my file server for the entire building. I love the ease and simplicity
of E-smith. This fall I plan to implement a K12LTSP network as well (K12
Linux Terminal Server Project) What I'd like to be able to do...I'd like
to be able to export each users /home directory from the E-Smith box to
the rest of the network...in particular the LTSP box.
Here's how to do it as mentioned on the K12LTSP page (then read on to find
out what I need help with
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****NFS Mount for /home: (more NFS info from the Red Hat Customization
Guide )
We have several LTSP servers in one building. All of them share the same
/home directory via NFS. We have one server that acts as the home folder
file server for the school (I want mine to be my E-Smith box). We sync
the passwd, group and shadow files to each LTSP server from this server.
This means that any user can sit down at any terminal regardless of the
host LTSP server and still have access to his/her settings and files.
Setting up NFS is very easy to do.
Configure the /home folder server by adding a line to /etc/exports:
/home 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 (rw)
Make sure that /home is an empty directory on the LTSP server. We'll use
it as the mount point for the NFS mount by adding one line to /etc/fstab:
server:/home/ /home nfs defaults,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
In this example we are mounting from a computer called "server." Make sure
the NFS host and IP number are listed in your /etc/hosts file and adjust
as needed for your network.
We don't add users often so simply copying passwd, group and shadow files
from the home server to /etc on the LTSP servers works well for us to keep
user logins synched.*****
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What I need is help with somehow getting NFS to work on an E-smith box.
The how-to's and so forth on the E-Smith site are spotty. I honestly
think that if someone were able to develop a package to be able to add
this as an option that some folks would make good use of it. Can anyone
help me?
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