[Sunhelp] Two questions about Solaris 7

[Bob C. Ruddy]

That is correct. If you use automount for example to mount nfs exports in
/home before you start automount /home will be an empty directory. When
you start the automounter and run the mount command with no options you
will see that automounter is manageing /home. There will be no entries in
the vfstab for /home as you mentioned.

Bob

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, John Lee wrote:

->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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