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Re: Home directories

* Paul Reilly <email@hidden> [2004-04-13 02:51] wibbled:
> In Trinity we use more or less the same setup as you, but our
> LDAP servers are on Linux, and instead of AFS, we use SMB to a
> windows file server. 90% of the time we do not have any problems -
> the 2 issues for us where (a) increasing the disk quota to students,
> and (b) network connectivity.
>
> The Library folder in each users home dir can easily get quite big taking
> up 20% or more of their quota. Deleting or not saving internet cache
> files was important. The whole setup is very dependent on the network
> though. Any network problems, and users get the spinning beachball.

Amen. The math department here has 10mbit networking between rooms.
The fileserver for my labs, of course, is on the other side of a 10mbit
link shared by 40 machines. This creates a lot of headaches.

> I suspect, as others have mentioned, that the problem is a buggy OpenAFS
> and Panther finder interaction. This will probably be fixed. If not, you
> could swicth to SMB, or other filesystem. If you don't control the actual
> filestorage server, you could mount it to a MacOSX or Linux box as AFS,
> then re-export it from there as SMB etc to the client Macs. Of course
> permissions could be interesting.

There is such a thing as an AFS->NFS translator, but it's not such a
great general solution; afaik, it can only run with the tokens of one
user, so it would take a significant amount of voodoo to make it happen
every time someone logged in.

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References: 
 >Home directories (From: Surajit A Bose <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Home directories (From: Paul Reilly <email@hidden>)



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