[BozemanLUG] I should be punished...

[Rusty Conover]

Has fcntl() locking ever been fixed on NFS? That's a pretty big non- 
starter for a home dirs on NFS for me.

Rusty

On Oct 8, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Jeff Sharkey wrote:

> 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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