yes, it does happen thatway,, but even then i never had to hard boot my client machine(in your case Host B) because i had soft mounted the /home on my client machine :-)
rrs On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Jeff Lane wrote: > Oh, no... you misunderstand me.. I dont mean that the server needed to > be hard booted, but the client computer.. > > for example, you have a server A that is handing out all employee home > dirs via NFS. So, I go to Host B and log in. Now, NIS handles all the > logon stuff, and then mounts my home dir on Host B via NFS. Now, IF > something should happen to cause the NFS connection to Server A drop, > and this could be anything from a momentarily unplugged cable, to > whatever, then Host B will have to be hard booted, because the machine > stops functioning if a user is logged in and his home directory suddenly > disappears. > > Been there, done that... more times than I care to remember... ;) > > > > Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > >It isn't necessary that the server need to be hard booted to get it back. > >pass appropriacte parameters to nfs and you are in the run. > > > >rrs > >On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jeff Lane wrote: > > > > > > > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
