[BBLISA] Linux and desktops on isolated LAN

[David Allan]

> clients automatically mount server:/home onto /home.  Even more elegant is
> to use automount (a bit tougher to set up).  You see, sometimes there's a

I'll second the recommendation to use automount.

I'd also strongly recommend using NFS/NIS/automount together.  The three
services are really designed to operate together, and if you don't use NIS
you'll run into all sorts of irritating uid/gid syncronization problems
down the road.

All of this is somewhat oldschool, and it's impossible to overstate the
security difficulties, but if you're on a truly isolated lan where all the
users trust one another, it will work very nicely.

Dave