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Old 10-26-2010
How to find server that hosts my home directory?
At work I have two sets of systems, my Primary network and Secondary network. Each consists of 4 servers, 3 of them for doing work (Idaho, Omaha, Juno) and hosting the processes we work on and 1 holds all the home directories (Sword). So Idaho, Omaha and Juno use Sword for home directories (user profiles, aliases, etc).

The Secondary network is the same set up. I wish to know how I can figure out what server hosts the home directories (i.e. Sword equivalent)

Forgive me if I can't describe my problem that well as I'm not Unix savvy yet
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Old 10-26-2010
Well, "df ~" will tell you if there is a mount (host:/dir) on your home dir.
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Old 10-26-2010
What Operating System is each (or all) of the other server running?
Are you using unix NFS or some clever hardware?




Off topic. Interesting server names. Sort of D-Day meets the Apaches.
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Old 10-26-2010
The operating system is HP-UX.11i Version 1.

And yes they are named after the Normandy beaches. I screwed up though, I meant to say Utah not Idaho. I have no idea why I wrote Idaho on here. And our SVN server is called Gold.
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Old 10-26-2010
So, does df of the home dir show a host:dir ?
# 6  
Old 10-26-2010
Code:
man ypcat

??
# 7  
Old 10-26-2010
Code:
niscat

??

You can find home dirs in /etc/passwd unless they hid on niscat or ypcat.

But detecting if it is a mount and the host depends on other tools, like df, unless it is mounted somehow to look like a local disk.
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