[BozemanLUG] I should be punished...

[David Eder]

I'm currently using NFS homedirs on one of my boxen.  I'm not using any
directory service, etc.

I do think that network hiccups are a major pain.  So far the only
recourse I've found from a hung nfs is to power off hard.  You can't run
anything, existing programs seem to freeze, and the load is very high. 
Oddly, root is not an nfs share and it seems to not be able to log into
the text console when this happens.

Opera doesn't like to share either, as far as browers go.

I think this is a really practical discussion to be had.

David.

> I've used an NFS homedir setup on my home network for the past few
> years, and it has worked very well.  The only downside is that network
> issues cause X to seize up badly, making it a poor choice over
> wireless.
>
> Also, Firefox in particular doesn't like sharing .mozilla between
> multiple active sessions.
>
> j
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Sheldon Ross <ross_sheldon at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Here's an idea for a topic I've always been curious about. What's the
>> easiest/best way to set up persistent home shares across a network.
>>
>> I mean I could set up a NFS share for home directories, but then I'd
>> still
>> have to create the users on each machine, and put the nfs share in the
>> fstab
>> on each machine.
>>
>> That doesn't seem like a very robust solution. I'm guessing the answer
>> is to
>> set up LDAP, and then just set up each machine to authenticate using
>> that.
>> And then maybe have a NFS mounted for the home directory on each system?
>>
>> Anyways just a thought that maybe Scott could share with us how he sets
>> up
>> the linux boxes on campus.
>>
>> Sheldon
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:01:36 -0600
>>> From: llc_lug at lcaudell.com
>>> To: discuss at bozemanlug.org
>>> Subject: Re: [BozemanLUG] I should be punished...
>>>
>>> He who seconds this lashing shall be assigned a topic of their choice.
>>>
>>> crack, crack, crack.......
>>>
>>> I too thought it was the next week.
>>>
>>> - Lou Caudell
>>>
>>> Scott Dowdle wrote:
>>> > Greetings,
>>> >
>>> > Since I messed up the meeting tonight... I should be "punished" by
>>> > someone taking over the scheduling of topics. Please?
>>> >
>>> > I nominate David Eder. Who seconds the nomination?
>>> >
>>> > TYL,
>>> >
>>>
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