automount home directories on a small 2.5 Ultra system

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From: Andrew Loughhead x8246
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:00

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We are setting up a new Ultra 1 system.  This will essentially 
be a standalone networked system, with generally at most 5 or 
so concurrent logins on telnet or xterminals, and the console.  

The setup answerbooks seem to be written for those who have 
lots of unix workstations, and expect people to use NIS+ and 
automounting of home directories.  We use DNS. We won't be 
buying AdminSuite.  We have only one workstation.

My question is simply whether it is a good, bad, or indifferent 
idea to use automounting of home directories in these circumstances. 
After some struggle i've figured out how to get it to work, but i'm 
starting to think it would be simpler and maybe more reliable 
(say with samba) to manually mount each users home directory in 
/etc/vfstab.

Opinions?

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Andrew Loughhead              
Division of Forestry and Forest Products, CSIRO
Yarrallumla ACT 2600
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