NIS configuration problem

[P M Prabu]

i am facing a problem in REDHAT EL 3.0

the problem is i configured a NIS server & client

the server configration completed without any error

but if i am logging through client
it is comming with an error

"No directory /home/!
logging in with home= "/"
-bash-2.05 b $" ------>comes to the prompt
it is not going to the home directory

help me to sort-out this issue

[Steven E. Protter]

Check the permissions on the folder /home/

The user needs to have permission to enter the directory.

Also, make sure the user is not duplicated in /etc/passwd and other file based security files on the client NIS server.

SEP

[Dave Falloon]

Are you automounting users home directories from an NFS server?

If not the users home directory must exist on every machine they try to log in to.

--Dave

[HTaghavi]

have you checked to see if you have access to /home/? Is it possibly a directory which is supposed to be mounted statically or automatically which isn't?

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

What you have to do is:
share /home on NIS server with NFS.
Edit the file /etc/auto.master and append this line to it:
/home /etc/auto.home

Then create /etc/auto.home and place this line in it:
* intr,soft,rw nisservername:/home/&

after that restart the autofs service:
service autofs restart

and it should work.

[Deepak Kulkarni]

Hi Prabhu,

It seems user home directory is not created.
If it is automounted form another server, then follow as alexander told. Or else manually create the home directory, then give the proper
permission for the folder. It happens when NIS user is added in automount environment by using
sam.

Cheers
Deepak

[P M Prabu]

hai thaks all

thare was a problem in automount only

now it is working fine

thanks for u r valuable replies

[P M Prabu]

as permentioned above the problem is solved

Regards
Prabu