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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. ^^

Quote:> 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.

        Do the /home/(user) directories exist? If you are not using the
automounter, then these directories must exist for you to manually mount
them.

When you say /home is mounted, what do you mean by this? What does
df | grep home
report?

Quote:

> 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. ^^

Are you trying to export an auto.home map also?

What do you get if you run (on the client):
ypcat -k auto.master
ypcat -k auto.home