On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 08:45:05PM -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote: > We use NIS (ypbind) and Kerberos at work for all our Linux and Unix > systems. Home directories are mounted via autofs from an NIS map. > Everything works just fine as long as all network resources are > available (however, things turn ugly when the NIS servers are not > reachable). Yes, NIS and autofs/NFS are usefull, but only in a fully connected environment. > What are other strategies that you use to deal with off-network use in > an NIS environment? I would suggest you configure their laptops outside of your NIS/autofs/NFS environment, create them specific accounts on the laptops, and make them use replication of their office home directories and resources on the laptop with Unison [1] (and ssh as a transport). This way, before they gome home/outside, they replicate from office to laptop their files; when they go back to office, they push back the modifications. In my lab, this stragegy works well since years. [1] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ -- Nicolas