Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!svin02!eba!ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl!wjw From: wjw@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Homedir in NFS-mount Message-ID: <1127@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> Date: 11 Apr 91 09:32:59 GMT References: <1720001@mjm.mjm.com> Sender: news@eb.ele.tue.nl (The News system) Reply-To: wjw@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) Organization: none Lines: 30 In article <1720001@mjm.mjm.com>, mjf@mjm.mjm.com (Mark Fresolone) writes: => >/ 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). => => 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. As far as I understand the NFS on Apollo, is this not possible. The SUN-NFS version requires an already existing directory to mount the NFS-system on. THe Apollo-NFS requires that this directory does not yet exist. When mounting something NFS in it's place. An entry in the parent directory get the file-type nfs_gate. (aren't typed file-systems handy). And as far as I know, is there nothing one can do with this object except us as NFS-gate to the foreign file system. Ciao, Willem Jan -- Eindhoven University of Technology DomainName: wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl Digital Systems Group, Room EH 10.10 P.O. 513 Tel: +31-40-473401 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands