[Sunhelp] Two questions about Solaris 7

[Yoho, Cindy]

I don't use automount or NFS, but if I remember correctly automount is just
a sort of "temporary" form of NFS.  In other words, NFS mounts can be
permanent, or mounted at boot time or manually and they stay mounted until
you unmount them, or they can be "automounts", which are not mounted until
someone needs to use the filesystem.  By issuing a command that accesses the
automounted filesystem, such as "cd /net/filesys1" the system quickly mounts
the requested filesystem for the user.  If the filesystem is idle for a
specified amount of time (default is 5 minutes, I think) then the it gets
unmounted until needed again. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Lee [SMTP:johnlee at sc.mcel.mot.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, November 01, 2000 7:26 PM
> To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject:	RE: [Sunhelp] Two questions about Solaris 7
> 
> 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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