NIS Automount Failure

NIS Automount Failure

Post by Sean R » Tue, 06 May 2003 17:20:55



Hi, all.

I'm trying to set up a network managed by a single NIS master server
with automount facility.
But I'm stumped after I generated auto.master and auto.home maps on
the server.
The symptoms are as follows:
  - Whenever I log on from any of the client machines, /home directory
on a
    client has been mounted with an empty directory. It seems to be
due to
    automount configuration, since I can see the original /home
contents
    only after stopping automount daemon.
  - I can't mount even manually each of the user's /home/(user)
directories.
    When I tried, 'Permission Denied' error messages comes up.

Due to the NFS portmap problem, currently, iptables are turned off,
and
the /etc/exports file maintains a correct export list. Nothing changes
after I reboot either the server or the clients.
auto.master and auto.home files are composed as follows for the server
and clients.

[Server]
#auto.master
/home           /etc/auto.home

#auto.home
user1           -rw,hard,intr           server:/home/user1
user2           -rw,hard,intr           server:/home/user2

[Client]
#auto.master
#EMPTY

#auto.home
+auto.home

user1/2 directory on the server and clients are owned by user1/2.
There's no problem in mounting another directory from the server.

Please help me come out of this stuff. Thanks in advance. ^^

 
 
 

1. NIS Automount Failure: Empy /home...

Hi, all.

I'm trying to set up a network managed by a single NIS master
server with automount facility.
But I'm stumped after I generated auto.master and auto.home
maps on the server.
The symptoms are as follows:
  - Whenever I log on from any of the client machines, /home
    directory on a client has been mounted with an empty
    directory. It seems to be due to automount configuration,
    since I can see the original /home contents only after
    stopping automount daemon.
  - I can't mount even manually each of the user's
    /home/(user) directories. When I tried, 'Permission
    Denied' error messages comes up.

Due to the NFS portmap problem, currently, iptables are
turned off, and the /etc/exports file maintains a correct
export list. Nothing changes after I reboot either the server
or the clients. auto.master and auto.home files are composed
as follows for the server and clients.

[Server]
#auto.master
/home           /etc/auto.home

#auto.home
user1           -rw,hard,intr           server:/home/user1
user2           -rw,hard,intr           server:/home/user2

[Client]
#auto.master
#EMPTY

#auto.home
+auto.home

user1/2 directory on the server and clients are owned by
user1/2. There's no problem in mounting another directory
from the server.

Please help me come out of this stuff. Thanks in advance. ^^

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