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From: mohacsi@fsz.bme.hu ( Janos Mohacsi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: distributed home directory
Date: 16 Mar 1994 18:16:37 GMT
Organization: Department of Process Control, Technical University of Budapest, HUNGARY
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Unix Experts,
We are running UNIX on several different architectures: SUN, HP and IBM.Every user can use each system, but they login different home directory.
E.g.: User foo logs in always to /users/foo but these home directories
are local to that architecture's server not to confuse the users
different binaries of different machines. But they can access the home
directory of other machines using /home/bar/foo, where the bar is
the server machine of chosen architecture and foo is the name of the user.
Users can make symbolical links on their owns if they want through
the /home/bar/foo -mechanism.
This mounts are maintaned by automounter.
Our problem is to connect to another system of another department.
They wants to mount only one point, but our users want to decide
which home directory want to export.
E.g.: User foo1 wants to use his home directory on bar1 on the ced1 system, but
User foo2 wants to use his home directory on bar3 on the ced1 system.
And on the system ced1 they wants only set up only one mount.
How can we set up this system? Is it possible ?
Any suggestion is welcomed!
Thanks,
John Mohacsi