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Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

Brian Faulk — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:36:56 GMT

What I am trying to do is simply have a NFS client mount user's home directory from a NIS master, which is exporting the home directory. Both are bound to the domain and the NIS master does allow a user to login on the NIS client but the user's home directory doesn't mount.

Please help.
Thanks

Re: Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:44:16 GMT

Can you give an erorr code please?

tail -f /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log on the NFS server when this happens.

That would be useful in diagnosis and cure.

SEP

Re: Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

RAC_1 — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:47:42 GMT

How does /etc/nsswitch.conf look like on client??

Does it have entry for automount?? Is automount map ok?? And perms on local dir where automount will mount the dir??

Can you mount those home dirs manually??

Anil

Re: Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

Brian Faulk — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:03:18 GMT

There isn't an error message. It just doesn't mount the directory. From what I can tell it does mount it however when the user logs in he/she is left at / not /home2/(user_name).

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Re: Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

Devesh Pant_1 — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:30:38 GMT

did you try command line mount ?
like
mount -F host1:/directory/name /local/directory/name

what happens ?

Re: Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

Devesh Pant_1 — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:32:18 GMT

Also could you check the contents of /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf

Re: Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

Brian Faulk — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:33:21 GMT

Yes doing it manually works just fine.
No problems.

Re: Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

Brian Faulk — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:36:33 GMT

Not sure what to look for but I do have the file and it AUTOMOUNT is set to 1 and it does reference auto_master.

Re: Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

RAC_1 — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:13:29 GMT

Post auto_master and the contents of the map that is mentioned there.

Anil

Re: Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

Brian Faulk — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:47:41 GMT

/etc/auto_master
/net -hosts -nosuid,soft
/home auto_home

/etc/auto_home
user1 sumserver:/home/user1
user2 sumserver:/home/user2

I hope this answers your question.

Re: Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

RAC_1 — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:01:14 GMT

Can you resolve sumserver1 from client?? With ip_adress and with host name??

Send -usr2 signal to autmountd and then try logging in with user id. Now check the debug log. (it will be created in /var/adm/syslog dir)

Anil

Re: Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

Brian Faulk — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 13:14:30 GMT

I can resolv without any problems. There are no error messages at all as any user tries to login.

Re: Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

RAC_1 — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:48:31 GMT

Did you dod this??

Send -usr2 signal to autmountd and then try logging in with user id. Now check the debug log. (it will be created in /var/adm/syslog dir)

Re: Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

Ermin Borovac — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:06:52 GMT

Have you tried changing the following line in /etc/auto_master? Maybe automounter cannot find your auto_home map, so try absolute path.

/home auto_home

to

/home /etc/auto_home

Re: Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

Brian Faulk — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 06:12:08 GMT

Yes I did try to make that change in /etc/auto_master to /home /etc/auto_home.

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