Configue NFS client to mount a home directory depending upon username

[Brian Faulk]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[RAC_1]

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

[Brian Faulk]

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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[Devesh Pant_1]

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

what happens ?

[Devesh Pant_1]

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

[Brian Faulk]

Yes doing it manually works just fine.
No problems.

[Brian Faulk]

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.

[RAC_1]

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

Anil

[Brian Faulk]

/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.

[RAC_1]

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

[Brian Faulk]

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

[RAC_1]

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)

[Ermin Borovac]

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

[Brian Faulk]

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

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