Ok, so heres my problem We have a server for NIS and NFS home directory's then 4 servers running deb sarge and ltsp 4.1. All set to mount /home from the main server and act as NIS clients.
While I'v be trying to get LDA to work with dapper on a test server its been getting to that time of year where all the 6th form students are finishing exam work and want to bring work to and from home on a pen-drive/cdrom/floppy and copy to/back up from there user space. So in the mean time I install a fat client with an NFS mounted /home and NIS client configured. Expecting the kids to be able to mount pen-drives/cdroms/floppy. Wrong! Because they are not local users they cannot mount/umount drives. I have got it to accept pen-drives and cdroms by adding the + group to cdrom/floppy/plugdev groups (a wild guess of adding + to everything the first created user is added too, bar a few exceptions) and using the gnome disk mounter applet. But every time I come to umount/eject it wont let me, saying the user is not root and the device doesn't exist in fstab. If they can mount a device.... why can't they unmount it? You would have thought this would work. If you can log into a box you should be able to use the local media without any changes to the system whether your local or not. Does anyone have any ideas or know if using LDAP would be better than NIS for authenticating users. -- Kind regards Alistair Crust Systems Administrator Skegness Grammar School Vernon Road Skegness PE25 2QS TEL: 01754 610000 (ext'852) FAX: 01754 896875 -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
