Re: Home directories: local(fast) x remote(secure, available)

2008-10-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Carlos, Am 2008-10-10 10:55:22, schrieb Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe: > Hi, Mr Konzack, Mrs. ;-) > Thank you very much for your time and guidance. > > In fact, our cabling is in poor condition, right now, so we're budgeting > to replace all of it soon, with a new CAT6 harness. I'll arrange

Re: Home directories: local(fast) x remote(secure, available)

2008-10-10 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
Hi, Mr Konzack, Thank you very much for your time and guidance. In fact, our cabling is in poor condition, right now, so we're budgeting to replace all of it soon, with a new CAT6 harness. I'll arrange to replace also the switches - that will allow us to move to GB ethernet in the workstations a

Re: Home directories: local(fast) x remote(secure, available)

2008-09-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-08-29 15:18:59, schrieb Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe: > Dear Srs, ??? > I have a bunch of machines (<20) and users (~15) working in a > develoment facility. > I like to keep home directories inside the server room - they're > mounted via NFS. Which is OK. > This give me short times for

Re: Home directories: local(fast) x remote(secure, available)

2008-09-02 Thread Eric Gerlach
I've heard that using the Coda filesystem can do what you're looking for. I've used its predecessor, OpenAFS, with success and people seem to like Coda for exactly what you're looking for. http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ They have APT repositories in the Downloads section. I have no idea how we

Re: home directories

1997-07-28 Thread Clint Adams
> My largest partition is at /usr/local. That's why. Make /home a symbolic link to somewhere on that partition then. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: home directories

1997-07-28 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, Just make /home a soft link to /usr/local/home. as root: (with nobody logged in!) copy /home to /usr/local/home: cd / tar cf - /home | ( cd /usr/local; tar xpf - ) check that it copied okay: ls -l /usr/local/home remove and relink: rm -rf /home ln -s /usr/local/home /home that's all, S

Re: Home directories

1997-07-28 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Harald Helfgott wrote: > How do I set the home directories to /usr/local instead of /home ? /usr/local is not the right place for home directories. They just don't belong in /usr. But if you want to change the default location, look into /etc/adduser.conf. Vadik. -- Vadi