On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 23:35, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Hello world! > > I had this idea the other day. My parents have a network I made for > them, and currently, it is a router running floppyfw, a workstation > running Woody and a laptop running Woody. > > So, I figured, if the laptop is in use at home, which it is most of the > time, behind this firewall, in this network, and the workstation is on > too, it would be convenient for them if their home dir was simply the > home dir that they have on the workstation. > > If, for some reason, the home dir on the workstation is unavailable, > then it should fall back to the local disk on the laptop. > > Is this something people here are doing? How? I thought about NFS, some > automounting, stuff like that, perhaps mounting both local and remote > filesystems as something other than /home/, and then use a script to > maintain symbolic links. But since all I've used NFS for before is as a > backend to SFS, I really don't know much about NFS' capabilites. >
It sounds like NFS is what you want. Take note though that it has a very long (minutes) hang time if it can't find the remote system when you want to unmount (it fails quite quickly if you try to mount a remote directory and the remote computer isn't found though). Also depending on the disk traffic, it can be heavy on network traffic. I would suggest using a script in /etc/rc2.d (use a link to /etc/init.d/) that tries to ping the remote computer and act on the result (don't know if ping has a quite mode but you can always grep the output). Depending on whether they save files localy, it may be better to mount the remote home under a different directory, probably a subdirectory under /home that they can access, otherwise the local files will be hidden. The only advantage to mount the remote /home instead of the local one is to use the remote settings. In such a case I would also sugest mirroring the two home directories at least at mount time and depending on how much they save stuff to disk, maybe more. > Any suggestions? > > Cheers, > > Kjetil > -- > Kjetil Kjernsmo > Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer/Mountaineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ -- Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
