Having made the cardinal sin of posting in HTML (I hang my head in shame)
and being resolutely ignored (as it should be), I thought I'd repost
properly in the hope that you'll all have mercy on me:-
I'm trying to set up a Digital PWS running alpha-RHL 6.2 - although we have
a load of other "flavours" of unix workstation here (plus a few linux boxes
handling various network services) this is the first linux box to be used as
a general workstation. We use NIS to handle centralised authentication (but
not hostname resolution), and user home directories are housed on another
server and are specified in auto.homes on the NIS server.
My problem is this. I've set up NIS on the workstation and it works, in
that I can access the box using my normal account, but the home directory
for my account is not being automounted - I get the following...
No directory /homes/rhodes!
Logging in with home = "/"
...as you might expect if it wasn't being mounted. Ypbind, portmap, nfs and
autofs are all running on the workstation and my home directory mounts fine
on all the other workstations I log into. I'm probably just being dumb and
missing something blindingly obvious, but if anyone has any suggestions as
to what I might be doing wrong I'd be very grateful.
Alternatively (or additionally?), if anyone knows of any links to a site
that'll take me through what happens during an NIS-authenticated login, that
too would be very useful - I'm relatively new to unix having been somewhat
thrown in at the deep end...
Thanks,
--
David Rhodes
IT Systems Administrator
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