Tagged Questions

0
votes
1answer
87 views

How to disable a specific mount, when using automount over LDAP

I am using Ubuntu 11.04, on which NFS paths are automounted using AutoFS/LDAP. For example, /path1 and /path2 are auto mounted, but I want to disable automount for /path1, because I want to use a ...
0
votes
2answers
376 views

NFS users getting a laggy GUI expierence

I am setting up a system (ubuntu 12.04) that uses ldap, pam, and autofs to load users and their home folders from a remote server. One of the options for login is sitting down at the machine and ...
1
vote
0answers
103 views

Wrong NFS group after upgrade to Precise

I just upgraded an NFS client from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04. After this, the ownership of mounted files and directories is incorrect: For all of them the group "nogroup" is shown while the user is ...
1
vote
0answers
161 views

How can I prevent autofs from mounting local user's home?

I've set up NFS and LDAP on an Ubuntu server. The client is configured to mount the home directory (NFS via Autofs) when a user logs in, which all runs perfectly well. However, autofs also tries to ...
1
vote
1answer
3k views

Simple NAS setup for Ubuntu

So, I want to connect my shiny new NAS (QNAP TS-210p II) to my Ubuntu 11.10 box. I have a 2nd Ubuntu machine, but I don't use that enough to be too worried about it. Use is ideally to offload all ...
1
vote
0answers
487 views

What's supposed to happen to NFSv4 mounts when Kerberos tickets expire? [closed]

I've got a bug report up on Launchpad describing this issue in detail. See here: Bug #794112 The gist is that I'm using LDAP and Kerberos to authenticate NFSv4 mounts on my clients according to a ...
4
votes
2answers
3k views

What happens to LDAP user authentication and NFS home directory shares when away from the network?

At present I have several machines on the home network which are a mixture of static desktops and laptops. Its getting unmanageable for me and impractical for all of them to have local home ...
3
votes
1answer
1k views

Going from a shared NFS /home to a full LDAP solution

I recently deployed about a dozen Ubuntu (Karmic) desktops in a small office. Everything was going great, but storage became an issue. I then moved /home to an NFS mount which solved the immediate ...