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Using NFS home directories when offline

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Mar 15, 20262086 views
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I have a server which has a NFS4 server running and exports the home directories for all my users. This setup work great when the user have direct access via LAN or WLAN to the server. But if a laptop user wants to login at a remote place without access to the server the login will fail. Is there s…

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Fix for: Using NFS home directories when offline

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You may use CacheFS for this. This is supported in the kernel. There is a short and concise cache-fs howto on the Gentoo Wiki that is applicable to any distro as long as you know how to install software on it. I have not used this myself, so I can n…

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