[Klug-general] Shared folders & users.

[Alan]

Yep with NFS and LDAP it's possible and works really well. We did it for 
a 20 -user system using Centos to host the NFS and LDAP but I don't see 
why a NAS could not do it.

Essentially you want the workstation to authenticate (with PAM on user 
login) and automount their home to the NAS. We needed to make changes to 
these files on the workstations:

Ldap-nss    /etc/ldap.conf
nss    /etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/pam.d/common-account
/etc/pam.d/common-auth
/etc/pam.d/common-password
/etc/pam.d/common-session
/etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.home (these are responsible for mounting 
home)

Wish I had written a howto at the time, sorry. Hopefully the files will 
point you in the right direction.

Be warned you *absolutely* need a solid network, we had endless problems 
with performance issues because of some bad network wiring. By the time 
we actually nailed down the problem to the wiring it was too late as the 
replacement system was already in the works. In theory wireless is 
possible (auto-authenticate using wpa_supplicant) but I would be careful 
if performance is an issue.

Oh yes, and don't try to log into the same user simultaneously from 
multiple workstations - you can imagine the result...


On 31/12/14 17:12, jwmartnet . wrote:
> I've got a new NAS, and have only dabbled with NFS before. I want to
> create users on the NAS and mount their home directories usign NFS on
> the client. I want the users on the client to match to users on the
> NAS. I want these folders auto-mounted by the client so user and me
> are kept happy.
>
> Is LDAP the right path to getting this sort of thing working?
>
> Cheers & Happy New Year! :-)
>
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