NIS / NFS / Automount

[Aslam Ghumra_2]

Hi All

I have two hp-ux 11.11 machines which I would like to setup as NIS.

My first machine (GRID1) is a NIS master, NIS client, NFS Server, NFS Client

My second machine (GRID2) is a NFS Server, NFS client, NIS client.

I can log into GRID2 using my credentials as a nis user but it does not present me with the directory which is based on GRID1.

I have tried meddeling with automount but have had no success.

Does anyone have a doc/info as to how to do this ?

Any help much appreciated.

regards

Aslam

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

Did you edit /etc/nsswitch.conf file ?
If not, edit as following:
passwd: nis
group: nis

or copy /etc/nsswitch.nis with appropriate changes
HTH

[Ralph Grothe]

If your automounter needs to refer to a master map on a NIS server make sure that your maps in /etc/auto_master don't begin with a slash in order to force automounter to refer to your nsswitch.conf.

[Ralph Grothe]

Forgot to cite manpage of automounter:

Otherwise the location of the map is determined by the policy of the
name service switch according to the entry for the automounter in
/etc/nsswitch.conf, such as

automount: nis files

[Aslam Ghumra_2]

Hi

Yes I used the nsswitch.conf file.
Do you mean this file on the machine I want to loginto ?

My nsswitch.conf file is :

passwd: files nis
group: files nis
hosts: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
networks: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
protocols: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
rpc: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
publickey: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
netgroup: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
automount: files nis
aliases: files nis
services: files nis

My auto_master is :
/home /etc/auto_home
/net -hosts -nosuid,soft,rsize=32768,wsize=32768
/- /etc/auto.direct

My auto_home is auto_home
ghumraak GRID1:/home/ghumraak
reeda GRID1:/home/reeda
huntjb GRID1:/home/huntjb

regards
Aslam