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My objective in this section is to create three VMs on any of the four vmservers. I will create one server and two clients that can access that server. The server will contain:

• At least three user accounts
  • My own.
  • wedge, password:bob
  • test1, password:test1
• NFS (Network File System) of /home that only the clients can access
• As well as an NIS (Network Information Service) that will serve any and all user accounts on the server.

The client VMs will contain:

• NO local user accounts
• configured to be an NFS client (nfs-common)
• configured as an NIS client
• automount (autofs5) of user home directories in /home

I created my server and clients using

root@vmserver01:~# xen-create-image --hostname='desired-hostname-here' --dhcp --verbose

The VMs are the following:

• Server: cortana
• Client1: masterchief
• Client2: arbiter

The dhcp settings are as follows for the VMs (this includes my other VMs as well):

        ##
        ## Jawsh's VMs
        ##
        host pancake.projects.lan {
                hardware ethernet 00:16:3E:E3:96:8F;
                fixed-address pancake.projects.lan;
        }

        host arbiter.projects.lan {
                hardware ethernet 00:16:3E:E3:96:8F;
                fixed-address arbiter.projects.lan;
        }

        host masterchief.projects.lan {
                hardware ethernet 00:16:3E:A3:B6:5A;
                fixed-address masterchief.projects.lan;
        }

        host cortana.projects.lan {
                hardware ethernet 00:16:3E:C9:42:89;
                fixed-address cortana.projects.lan;
        }

The DNS records are as follows (including my other VMs):

; jcavalu3 (50-59)
50      IN      PTR     pancake.projects.lan.
51      IN      PTR     vm-051.projects.lan.
52      IN      PTR     vm-052.projects.lan.
53      IN      PTR     vm-053.projects.lan.
54      IN      PTR     vm-054.projects.lan.
55      IN      PTR     vm-055.projects.lan.
56      IN      PTR     vm-056.projects.lan.
57      IN      PTR     arbiter.projects.lan.
58      IN      PTR     masterchief.projects.lan.
59      IN      PTR     cortana.projects.lan.