Hosting your own web site - 730 Part V . Running Servers mount /home
730 Part V . Running Servers mount /home on the same mount point on each client computer. When the user logs in, she has access to all of the startup files and data files contained in her /home/user directory. If your users rely on a shared /home directory, you should make sure that the NFS server that exports the directory is fairly reliable. If /home isn t available, the user may not have the startup files to log in correctly, or any of the data files needed to get work done. One workaround is to have a minimal set of startup files (.bashrc, .Xdefaults, and so on) available in the user s home directory when the NFS directory is not mounted. This enables the user to log in properly at those times. . /project Although you don t have to use this name, a common practice among users on a project is to share a directory structure containing files that people on the project need to share so that everyone can work on original files and keep copies of the latest versions in one place. (Of course, a better way to manage a project is with CVS or some other version control type software, but this is a poor person s way to do it.) . /var/log An administrator can keep track of log files from several different computers by mounting the /var/log file on the administrator s computer. (Each server may need to export the directory to enable root to be mapped between the computers for this to work.) If there are problems with a computer, the administrator can then easily view the shared log files live. If you are working exclusively with Linux and other UNIX systems, NFS is probably your best choice for sharing file systems. If your network consists primarily of Microsoft Windows computers or a combination of systems, you may want to look into using Samba for file sharing. Setting Up a Samba File Server Samba is a software package that enables you to share file systems and printers on a network with computers that use the Session Message Block (SMB) protocol. This package is distributed with most Linux flavors but can be obtained from www.samba .org if you do not find it on your distribution. SMB is the protocol that is delivered with Windows operating systems for sharing files and printers. Although you can t always count on NFS being installed on Windows clients (unless you install it yourself), SMB is always available (with a bit of setup). In Windows file and printer sharing, SMB is sometimes referred to as CIFS (Common Internet File System), which is an Internet standard network file system definition based on SMB, or NetBIOS, which was the original SMB communication protocol. Note Tip
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