Raghunath L proclaimed:
> Is it posible to automount the home directories like nfs implimentation in
> solaris,if yes
It is possible. This is what is done @ my work.
> Please tell me how to do home dir maping ueing autofs
Step 1: The home directory of the users should physically exist on some
machine. You should also be running NFS on this machine. Let us say
that the physical home directories are under /home on this machine.
Export /home through NFS.
Step 2: For conveneience sake, let us assume that the user's
automounted home directory on the client machines will be /u/username
instead of /home/username. We will follow this convention to
distinguish between physical local users (who will be under /home) and
network users who will be under /u. Make sure that the NIS server has
an entry for user foo in the passwd file in the following format:
foo:ENCPASSWD:1984:1234:Foo Bar:/u/foo:/bin/bash
Also, the auto.master map on the NIS server should have a line like so:
/u auto.home -nosuid
The auto.home map should have entries like so:
foo home-server-machine:/home/foo
Step 3: From the client machine you should first be able to see the
passwd file on the NIS server. You can do this by 'ypcat passwd | grep
foo'
Sep 4: The autofs daemon can automount locally specified stuff and stuff
specified in the NIS maps (a map called auto.master). Edit
/etc/auto.master on the client machine. It should look like so:
/misc /etc/auto.misc
+auto.master
The first line says that anything under /misc is to be automounted as
specified in /etc/auto.misc. The '+auto.master' says that every map
listed in the NIS map auto.master should also be mounted.
Step 4: Restart the autofs daemon /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs restart. Now
if you type mount, you should see that /u (as specified in auto.master)
is mounted.
Step 5: Login as user foo and see how it works.
> I tried autofs for automonting the windows partition when ever i visit /misc
> folder.
>
> I have configure auto.master and auto.misc also service autofs is running but it
> never monted the partition.
Can you give me the entriees you had for auto.master and auto.misc.
I'll be able to help you if I got more info.
Thaths
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