From: Alexei_Roudnev (Alexei_Roudnev_at_exigengroup.com)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2006 - 19:43:01 CEST
Message-ID: <10d801c6cdee$11ff1c80$6401a8c0@alexh> From: "Alexei_Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:43:01 -0700 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Any Suggestions on accessing /home directories on LinuxWorkstations (without NFS) ??
Did you trty SLED10 with old NFS server? I never experienced any NFS
problems with SLES9.
As a workaround, you can install Solaris10 on NFS server (Solaris have a
classical, 100% robust NFS).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Petersen" <mgpeter@pcc-services.com>
To: "SLES Mailing List" <suse-sles-e@suse.com>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 7:39 AM
Subject: [suse-sles-e] Any Suggestions on accessing /home directories on
LinuxWorkstations (without NFS) ??
> I work part time at a school and we are gradually transitioning over to
> SLED10 on some Desktops. My current focus is a small lab used for
> teaching Digital Publishing. We are dropping PageMaker/Indesign (too
> expensive and support kind of stinks) and going with Scribus - this year
> the school newspaper will use Scribus and hopefully if things go well
> the yearbook will use it next year.
>
> Right now the problem I am having is to allow the students have access
> to their /home directory and the newspaper and yearbook shared
> directories. For the past few weeks we have been using NFS /home
> directories and I am running into all sorts of errors from locking
> problems to "stale" files. This seems to be a problem with the SLES10
> implementation of NFS as last year we had no problems sharing the /home
> directory across all of our servers.
>
> The mount options I have been using for our /home directories is:
>
> hard,intr,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
>
> I have also specified the server to only use NFSv3 instead of ver4,
> which did help considerably, although some errors still come up
> (applications simply die, various error messages prop up, etc.).
>
> So I am looking for suggestions on how other people have tackled the
> issue of allowing Linux users access to their network file shares.
>
> Is their any way to do this by using samba without the user having to
> "browse" the windows network (it probably needs to be fully automated) ?
>
> Any suggestions would be very helpful.
>
> --
> Mike Petersen
> mgpeter@pcc-services.com
>
>
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