Distributed internal network

• Need to setup NIS to serve hosts, passwd, groups, auto.master, auto.*, services, and so forth.
• Can I supply print server info over NIS as well?
• the master dhcpd server can use fixed-address <hostname>
• Can the resolv.conf use /etc/hosts values as well? that'd be handy...
• Can set up all clients then to use the master dhcpd server to get their fixed ips/dns addressses.
• Most things should go on nfs on the server.
• Some exceptions might be user homes, tmps, bin/sbin/lib/boot.
• try to keep /usr stuff shared as much as possible (but clean)
• try to keep /usr/local stuff shared as much as possible too
• /var can by and large be remote, but seperate
• /opt should be emptyish I think
• /etc should be relatively clean, with a set of exceptions that are kept on the server as backups and for ease of reinstalling a server
• /srv should be well backed up distributably
• Try to keep as much as possible things that need backing up, things that I install, and things from the base system all seperate
• mythbox tmp in ram, no swap, RO flash card if possible, all RW stuff on NFS.
• geri needs a lot of stuff local, but keep it backed up and synced with the shared stuff on the server
• geri can also host a lot of normal user homes, with backups on the server, of course.
• local mounts for the serving computers can use the loopback stuff from the autofs support
• again, general principle is to make reinstalling/upgrading/deploying each server as easy as possible.