[newbie] Re: [expert] splitting /home dir's

2000-01-07 Thread Denis Havlik
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: :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

[newbie] RE: [expert] splitting /home dir's

2000-01-07 Thread Bois, Mathieu
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