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Andrew Loughhead x8246 <andrew.loughhead@cbr.for.csiro.au> writes:

>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.

i can't see any point in the automounter for one workstation.
(you're not going to be exporting anything anyhow, if you can use
samba instead, which is a much better solution for PCs etc IMHO)

it's just more sysadmin overhead in this case.

-jason
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