2008/10/15 Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at gmail.com>: > Hi, <snip> > automount is actually quite a good tool if you really need to do this > kind of stuff, which in your case you will probably have to anyway. > The setup with automount is actually good in that volumes will be kept > mounted only while they're used (if you use a short enough timeout), > and in your case it seems that they will be seldomly used, so you > would not have NFS mounted filesystems most of the time. agreed, I guess there's no other way. > <snip> > NFSv3 -> NFSv4 also looks good, but I would say this tends to be a > more risky upgrade, since NFS3 is quite stable and NFS4 is still > somewhat new and you may end up having some surprises with it. > Personally I will still stick with NFSv3 for a while. I'm currently reading http://www-theorie.physik.unizh.ch/~dpotter/howto/kerberos (ldap/kerberos/nfs4 howto), and I think I'll follow that, minus nfs4. I've taken a quick look at Directory Server, it seems nice but a bit overkill for the size of the network. Thx a lot for your advice. Laurent.