[Sunhelp] Two questions about Solaris 7

[John Lee]

Hello Bob,

Thanks for your input.

I'm sorry I havenot clear my question. As you know, automount has so much
advantages. So is it ok that we just need construct the automount map on NFS
clients instead of editing the /etc/vfstab file to mount NFS directories
which resides on NFS servers ?

Regards.
John

-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Bob C. Ruddy
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 9:38 AM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] Two questions about Solaris 7


you would use automount along with nfs mounting. One example whould be to
have /home controled by automount. This way people's home directories
could be located on several different servers, but when you construct your
automount map, clients will be able to mount everyone's home directories
under /home. Also if you mount file systems such as /usr/local which are
mostly static you can configure automount to first try to mount from
nfs-server1 then if that server is unavailable you can have automount try
to mount from nfs-server2.

Bob

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, John Lee wrote:

->Hello Jarrett,
->
->Thank you very much for your help.
->
->Actually, I'm not familiar with automount. Although I browsed the man page
->of automount, I still have a question which maybe silly: Can automount
->replace NFS mount ? or What situation does NFS mount apply to ?
->
->Thanks.
->
->John
->
->
->-----Original Message-----
->From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
->Behalf Of Jarrett Carver
->Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:03 PM
->To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
->Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Two questions about Solaris 7
->
->
->If you are using NIS or NIS+ check out nispasswd. Specifically, the -a
->option. This only disconnects the user after 3 failed logins, it does not
->lock the account. So it may not be what you were looking for.
->
->As for mounting home directories. I suggest using automount. This cuts
down
->on net traffic when the filesystem is not in use. When the filesystem is
->hard mounted, it will preiodically send traffic to maintain the mount.
->Automount will stop after 10 minutes (I beleive) of idle time and umount
the
->partition. If it is needed again it will re-mount.
->
->Hope this helps.
->
->
->>From: "John Lee" <johnlee at sc.mcel.mot.com>
->>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
->>To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
->>Subject: [Sunhelp] Two questions about Solaris 7
->>Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:39:44 +0800
->>
->>Greetings,
->>
->>I have two questions want to get your advice:
->>
->>1) How can Solaris7 lock an account after serveral  login failures ? As
you
->>know, NT can do it. I can't find any hints on Solaris7.
->>
->>2) In a common environment which contains serveral Solaris boxes, One box
->>serves as home directory server, other boxes mount the home directory
from
->>it. My questions is: Which is better : NFS hard mount or automount ?
->>
->>Thanks for your input.
->>
->>Regards.
->>John Lee
->>
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