What's the contents of auto_home (or auto.home) on the new and old yp
server? I would say that's where the diff is.
J
Will Sarka wrote:
>Thanks to Mr. Anvin, and a few others. I now have entries in auto.home
>that are without the double colon, I can look at the map via 'ypcat -k
>auto.home' and see the entries correctly. However, I still cannot mount
>the home directory correctly. Perhaps I should be shot, but I can't
>figure out why the automounter isn't mounting the home directory...
>
>Scenario:
>
>My workstation (RedHat 7.3, when yp.conf has the old NIS master (Solaris 7
>box) listed, everything works fine with the defaults, no auto.home file in
>/etc on the workstation here). Courty, in this case, is the NIS master,
>and Homer is the, hopefully, new NIS master in the near future.
>
>ypcat -k auto.home results in :
>
>wsarka homer:/export/home:&
>tmp courty:/export/scratch
>
>
>When I switch to the "new" NIS master, which was a former NIS slave (I
>imported the NIS source files, auto.home auto.master passwd group, etc),
>the automounter, for whatever reason doesn't want to mount my home
>directory, BUT I can still mount the /home/tmp directory off of Courty.
>I'm exporting /export/home from /etc/exports with just rw permissions,
>nothing special. The fact that I can mount /home/tmp (from the old NIS
>master) proves to me that the maps are now correct, so that the problem is
>narrowed down to the interaction between the automounter and the NFS
>server on the Linux box?
>
>ypcat -k auto.home results in:
>
>wsarka homer:/export/home/wsarka
>tmp courty:/export/scratch
>
>I've updated the auto.home map on the Linux box and removed the
>double-colon entries, and now just have the single colon entries as
>described above.
>
>auto.master on Linux box:
>
># $Id: auto.master,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:03 hpa Exp $
># Sample auto.master file
># Format of this file:
># mountpoint map options
># For details of the format look at autofs(8).
>/home yp:auto.home
>/misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60
>
>auto_master on Solaris box:
>
># Master map for automounter
>#
>+auto_master
>/net -hosts -nosuid,nobrowse
>/home auto_home
>/xfn -xfn
>
>
>As a test, I edited the /etc/yp.conf on my workstation to point to the old
>NIS master and then the new NIS master, each time stopping autofs and
>ypbind and then restarting them with the change I implemented. After the
>change, I would su - wsarka, as root, to test whether or not the
>automounter was working. Here's the relevant parts of the
>/var/log/messages file:
>
>
>edit yp.conf, point to Courty, Solaris NIS master:
>
>May 30 12:28:21 dim-4100-l1 ypbind: bound to NIS server
>courty.boulder.emperative.com
>May 30 12:28:29 dim-4100-l1 automount[18947]: starting automounter version
>3.1.7, path = /home, maptype = yp, mapname = auto.home
>May 30 12:28:29 dim-4100-l1 autofs: automount startup succeeded
>May 30 12:28:29 dim-4100-l1 automount[18947]: using kernel protocol
>version 3
>May 30 12:29:15 dim-4100-l1 automount[18947]: attempting to mount entry
>/home/wsarka
>May 30 12:29:15 dim-4100-l1 su(pam_unix)[18960]: session opened for user
>wsarka by root(uid=0)
>
>
>edit yp.conf, point to Homer, Linux NIS master:
>
>May 30 12:31:12 dim-4100-l1 ypbind: bound to NIS server
>homer.boulder.emperative.com
>May 30 12:31:27 dim-4100-l1 automount[19206]: starting automounter version
>3.1.7, path = /home, maptype = yp, mapname = auto.home
>May 30 12:31:27 dim-4100-l1 automount[19231]: starting automounter version
>3.1.7, path = /misc, maptype = file, mapname = /etc/auto.misc
>May 30 12:31:27 dim-4100-l1 autofs: automount startup succeeded
>May 30 12:31:27 dim-4100-l1 automount[19231]: using kernel protocol
>version 3
>May 30 12:31:49 dim-4100-l1 automount[19206]: attempting to mount entry
>/home/wsarka
>May 30 12:31:49 dim-4100-l1 automount[19242]: >> mount: special device
>/export/home/wsarka does not exist
>May 30 12:31:49 dim-4100-l1 automount[19242]: mount(bind): failed to mount
>--bind /export/home/wsarka on /home/wsarka, trying symlink
>
>
>
>Any help in this matter would be appreciated. Just trying to pry the last
>vestiges of the Solaris box out of the network, and this is the last
>piece. If there is something obvious that I'm missing, or if there is
>another piece of information I forgot, please let me know.
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Will
>
>
>
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