nfs mounting user home directories

[Eric Buckner]

I realize this is probably done through AutoFS. However, I got a few questions. First is there any good docs on doing this? I really don't want to use NIS at this time but would like to have roaming home directories.

TIA!!!
Eric

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

A good place to start is the HP docs (if you do not have 'em yet).

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/netcom/index.html

Click on "NFS Services"
Doc you need is "Installating and Administering NFS Services"

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

See man NFS.

Basically export the dir from the home server setting read/write permissions.

Mount the dir on the target server - I would suggest using a soft mount options as a failed server can seriously affect the others.

You can control the export server to only export to x y or z server.

Sam is very handy for this task.


Paula

[Helen French]

Hi,

This is a complete guide:

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/B1031-90048.html

HTH,
Shiju

[Eric Buckner]

Yeah I understand the basics of Exporting/Mounting for NFS. I just didn't want to have to go through creating a new export and mount everytime I added a user. There has to be a way of automating that. Which is why I was thinking automounter/autofs.

[Helen French]

Hi,

This may be useful:

http://www.docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/B1031-90048_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/12-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/12-toc.html&searchterms=automount&queryid=20020208-084042

http://www.docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/B1031-90048_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/11-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/11-toc.html&searchterms=automount&queryid=20020208-084042

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90681/B2355-90681.html

HTH,
Shiju

[S.K. Chan]

OK, also check the doc link that I gave you. There is a section on "Configuring NFS Automounter". Basically this is what you would do.. (I might miss a few steps but I think this is close).
For example :
In /etc
=======
Content of auto_master file would be
/users /etc/auto_users

Content of auto_users file would be
james ford:/home/james
* toyota:/home/*

In /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf
===========================
...
AUTO_MASTER="/etc/auto_master"
AUTOFS=1
....

Once AutoFS is running you should see 2 process
1- autofs_proc
2- automountd

The above example will automount all users home directories in host "toyota" except for user "james" whose home dir will come from ford instead.

[Eric Buckner]

Thanks everyone! I was doing all of this but wasn't having much success. It wasn't until my 100th stop/start of nfs.client that I noticed a message stating that /home was already mounted.

Apparently autofs doesn't like for you to have a mounted FS on /home if you are going to be automounting to /home. I unmounted /home and did the stop/start shuffle w/ nfs.client and lo and behold it worked like a charm.

Thanks again for the help!!

Eric

[Sanjay_6]

hi Eric,

Try this,

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/B1031-90048_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/11-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90048/00/00/11-toc.html&searchterms=automount&queryid=20020208-091231

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=5d37026c060e814286/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000009872386

Hope this helps.

Regds