Joseph, Yes, it is possible to split users homes on different machines. BTW, If you want reliability (in case your main server goes down for a while), you'll have a master NIS server, with secondary NIS "slaves". (the terms are not the exact ones, but I don't remember exactly. What I know is that when you push the tables on the NIS master, it also pushes them on the other servers). Else, one single NIS server is sufficient. On the NIS server, you set up the passwd map (along with the shadow map I assume, like said before). You create another map auto.home, that associates loginname and home path. For instance : gardnerjs superman:/usr/home/gardnerjs gardnerp spiderman:/home/gardnerp Where superman and spiderman are two (NFS) servers for home directories. BTW, the NIS server(s) need not be the same as the servers for home directories. And then, (this is the hardest part) you need to have an automounter script that will check the auto.home map and automount from the right server the right home directory. I know this works well since we used it at work, when we have migrated our users from one server to another. But we use Solaris, and the map/automount scripts were made by other people and I didn't had a close look to how to do that... Good luck, Mathieu > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph S. Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 07 January 2000 16:15 > To: Linux Expert; Linux Newbie; Cleveland Linux Users Group > Subject: [expert] splitting /home dir's > > > Well folks, after all the great suggestions regarding my planned SOHO > setup & administration I thought I'd ask the next question > that comes to > my feeble little mind. > > Is it possible to split the /home mounts over several drives > / machines > and still refer to them as /home. Does NIS / NFS handle this (I know > RTFM and I am it's just that "inquiring minds gotta know" and > I haven't > gotten that far YET). I suppose this would be a problem with ISP's as > they add users with each requiring drive space. Perhaps a > better way to > phrase the question is how does one grow their required /home space, > does one simply substitute a larger drive as the old one fills or can > you gracefully expand your /home partition across multiple drives? > > Thanks, > -- > Joseph S. Gardner > Senior Designer / Technical Support > Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
