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List:       suse-linux-uk-schools
Subject:    Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] NFS
From:       Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16 () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2005-06-05 17:57:31
Message-ID: 20050605175732.17800.qmail () web41105 ! mail ! yahoo ! com
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--- Miles Berry <mberry@st-ives.surrey.sch.uk> wrote:

> broad strategic vision here:
> * Use NFS on the server to export my /home and /export directory
> trees 
> (the former being my proper Linux home directories with all the
> desktop 
> config stuff, imap boxes whatever, the latter being the samba shares 
> they access from existing windows clients)

Yes, that's right.

> * Use NFS on all the clients to mount these two exported filesystems,
> 
> may as well be mounted at /home and /export for the sake of
> simplicity, 
> yes?

Correct -- depending on how you have your local HD partitioned, if you
have /home on a separate one, ensure you comment it out in favour of
NFS.

> * Use NIS on servers and clients to do the passwords and groups stuff

Correct.

> * Use really clever file and directory permissions to make sure that 
> they don't read anyone else's stuff - this hasn't been an issue
> before 
> since samba made sure that the only network shares they could see
> were 
> their own.

Then that's OK.  But the art of permissions should be something you do,
as a general matter of course, anyway.

> Faff around in KDE to make some pretty desktop icons to the folders I
> want them to have access to.

Heh.  That might be the best bit... but yes, that too is just fine.  :)

-- Thomas Adam


	
	
		
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