[Lias] Thin Clients and NT Domain logins

[Paul Gear]

Simon Bryan wrote:
>>I personally prefer automount for this sort of thing.  I use it for
>>...
> Thanks for the tip, will look into that. At the moment I don't have time to test,
> but in the shower this morning (best place for thinking) I was wondering why I don't
> use NFS or even SMB to permanently mount the home directories from one server to the
> other. Will have to check what happens to permissions, and I have a sneaking
> suspicion that the there will be a variation in UID's and GID's meaning the users
> and groups don't match. 

If you have authentication set up via NTLM or something similar, then
it should take care of the uids & gids for you.  In that case, a
single permanent NFS mount would probably work quite well.
-- 
Paul Gear
Manager IT Operations
Redlands College
38 Anson Road, Wellington Point 4160
07 3286 0271
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