Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!mjm!mjf From: mjf@mjm.mjm.com (Mark Fresolone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Homedir in NFS-mount Message-ID: <1720001@mjm.mjm.com> Date: 10 Apr 91 17:14:35 GMT References: Organization: Melillo Consulting, Somerset, NJ Lines: 18 >/ mjm:comp.sys.apollo / Hannu.Martikka@lut.fi (Hannu Martikka) / 3:10 am Apr 10, 1991 / >Has anyone tied to have user homedirs in NFS mounted directory? >Since we have only limited amount of apollo disk it could be nice to >have users homedirs in some other computer (in our case hp9000). >Regards from Goodi In the volitile (and somewhat lax) environment of a field engineering outfit, we maintained NFS-mounted user directories for a while. One trick we used for the case where our server was down was to implement (very) minimal home directories and environments on the local file system "under" the same HOME path names. (If there is a /users/joe/File on the local file system, and one NFS-mounts onto /users, file "File" becomes inaccessable.) When the remote FS was mounted, we got real HOMEs. When unavailable, we just got our profiles, but we could at least work in some cases, and read mail, news, etc. Mark Fresolone mjf@mjm.com, rutgers!mjm!mjf Melillo Consulting/MJM Software 908-873-0075/Fax 908-873-2250