[PLUG] NFS mounted home directories
Terry Griffin
griffint at pobox.com
Tue Oct 9 23:59:21 UTC 2007
On Tue, October 9, 2007 3:43 pm, Russell Senior wrote:
>
> I am wanting to set up nfs mounted home directories for a bunch of
> boxes on my network. I'd like to ask folks-in-the-know where the gotchas
> are likely to be. The goal being that it won't matter where one sits
> down, they'll be able to login and have their homedir right there. One
> issue I've already thought about (but haven't tested or solved) is the
> issue of simultaneously "open" mozilla profiles on separate boxes (I'd
> rather not have to go "oh" and then chase over to the other box to close
> things down). Any clues/solutions/workarounds are welcome.
>
> Thanks for the insight.
>
>
Generally speaking, simultaneous text-based login (ssh, telnet, rsh,
console, etc) sessions to multiple hosts having a shared NFS home
directory works nicely.
On the other hand simultaneous GUI logins to multiple hosts with
shared NFS home is problematic. It gets especially ugly if you want
to run the same desktop (KDE, Gnome, whatever) simultaneously on all
hosts. And then there are the apps. Mozilla is by no means the only
one with issues in this regard. There are usually ways to deal with
all of this but it can be a pain.
What normally happens in environments like this is a user will
opt to login to just one host using a GUI session. From there
they will text login to the other hosts. This works well with
a common NFS home.
Terry
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