Title: How to add extra storage servers in Debian Edu / Skolelinux
Tags: english, debian edu, ldap
-Date: 2014-03-14 12:50
+Date: 2014-03-12 12:50
<p>On larger sites, it is useful to use a dedicated storage server for
storing user home directories and data. The design for handling this
-in Debian Edu / Skolelinux, is to update the automount rules in LDAP
-and let the automount daemon on the clients take care of the rest. I
-was reminded about the need to document this better when one of the
-customers of <a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a>,
-where I am on the board of directors, asked about how to do this. The
-steps to get this working are the following:</p>
+in <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>, is
+to update the automount rules in LDAP and let the automount daemon on
+the clients take care of the rest. I was reminded about the need to
+document this better when one of the customers of
+<a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a>, where I am
+on the board of directors, asked about how to do this. The steps to
+get this working are the following:</p>
<p><ol>
<p>DNS entries are added in GOsa², and not described here. Follow the
<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/GettingStarted">instructions
-in the manual</a> (Machine Management with GOsa² in section etting
+in the manual</a> (Machine Management with GOsa² in section Getting
started).</p>
<p>Ensure that the NFS export points on the server are exported to the
root@tjener:~#
</pre></blockquote></p>
-<p>Here everything on the backbone network access. With NFS it is
-better to limit it to netgroup membership to have some limits on the
+<p>Here everything on the backbone network is granted access to the
+/storage export. With NFSv3 it is slightly better to limit it to
+netgroup membership or single IP addresses to have some limits on the
NFS access.</p>
<p>The next step is to update LDAP. This can not be done using GOsa²,