Urgent need: How to mount NIS user home directories???

[SavitaEli]

Hi,
I have a scenario:
–NIS server 172.168.1.132 NFS-exports /rhome/station100 to your system and suppose have 3 users (nisx) nis1,nis2,nis3,where x is ur system id.
-- nis1's home directory is 172.168.1.132:/rhome/station100/nis1
-- nis2's home directory is 172.168.1.132:/rhome/station100/nis2
-- nis3's home directory is 172.168.1.132:/rhome/station100/nis3
– nis1's home directory should be automounted locally beneath /rhome as /rhome/nis1
– home directories must be writable by their users
– While you are able to log in as any of the users nis1 through nis3, the only home
directory that is accessible from your system is nisx, where x is ur system id.

Example: station100 would configure the automounter such that nis1’s home directory
/rhome/nis1 gets mounted automatically upon login. The NFS share would be
172.168.1.132:/rhome/station100/nis1

I have been trying this frm past 2 days. Not able to solve.
My auto.home entries:
* 172.168.1.132 /rhome/&
* 172.168.1.132 /rhome/station100/&

My auto.master entries:
/rhome /etc/auto.home

I have been trying all the ways, but no clue whats going wrong.
Plz help me asap.

Thanx,
Savita.

[techieMoe]

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[SavitaEli]

Hi,

My problem is with autofs +NIS.Here are the details:

My machine configurations:
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NIS server: 172.168.1.132
Shares: /rhome/station100/

NIS Client: 172.168.1.129
Needs to mount nis user dir under /rhome/nis which on server is under /rhome/station100/nis

My auto.master entries:
/rhome/ /etc/auto.home -rw

My auto.home entries:
station100 172.168.1.132:/rhome/&
* 172.168.1.132:/rhome/station100/&

I am facing 2 problems with this.
Details:
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Problem 1> Even though,nis1's home dir is mounted under /rhome/nis1, Could not able to change to home dir upon login on client(172.168.1.129) and nis user is placed in '/' of client.

[root@aca80181 ~]# ssh -l nis1 172.168.1.129
nis1@172.168.1.129's password:
Last login: Thu Jul 23 11:42:09 2009 from aca80181.ipt.aol.com
Could not chdir to home directory /rhome/station100/nis1: No such file or directory
-bash-3.2$ pwd
/

Problem 2> Though only one user nis1 tried to login, all the users are getting their home dirs in /rhome/

[root@aca80181 ~]# ls /rhome/
nis1 nis2 nis3

How to resolve this issue?????
Plz reply.

[SavitaEli]

Hi,

I want to automount nfs home dir:
server:/myhome/nis1

to client as /users/nis1
auto.home
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* -fstype=nfs,rw server:/myhome/&
auto.matser
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/users /etc/auto.home -rw --timeout=300

But upon login I get the error : "Could not chdir to /myhome/nis1 No such file or dir"
I login as:
#ssh -l nis1 <client_ip_addr>

But if the home dir name is same(/myhome on both client & server) I am able to login with the proper home dir.

What is wrong?

[SavitaEli]

Still nothing on this. I can't believe no one has tried to do this before. It seems like it would be a common issue.

Please help!!

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