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creating an NCP mount

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Chris

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Feb 22, 2010, 9:43:29 AM2/22/10
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Hi all:  Can you create an NCP mount that points to a local NSS volume?  This would be used to allow local users, in particular zenworks, to read and write to the local NSS volume?  Can this be auto-mounted at startup via fstab?
 
Thanks, Chris.
 
 

Joseph Marton

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Feb 22, 2010, 10:07:49 AM2/22/10
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Not sure I understand the question. All NSS volumes are accessible via
NCP by default and are also automounted.

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Joe Marton
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Joseph Marton

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Feb 22, 2010, 10:55:52 AM2/22/10
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On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:23:25 +0000, Chris wrote:

> Sorry for my poor wording. What I am after is the ability for an local
> linux account to somehow access the local NSS volume. Normally this is
> not allowed. I was thinking one why around this is to export the NSS
> volume (or directory on it) and import it onto the same server. Maybe
> NFS would be a better candidate.

If you LUM-enable an eDir user and the eDir user has rights to the NSS
volume, then I would think the person should be able to login locally to
the server console and still access the NSS volume.

Chris

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Feb 23, 2010, 9:19:58 AM2/23/10
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OK, gave up on this idea and bit the bullet and repartitioned to create dedicated ext3 partitions for linux backend services' use.
 
I must say that Novell really needs to work on this issue, either from a user education point of view or implement a way for these local users created by back-end services access to the nss volume.
 
Live and learn.  Thanks to all for the help, Chris.
 
 
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