I am in the process of integrating several RH6.0 workstations into an
existing HP-UX 10.10 NIS environment. The problem I am running into is that
I am unable to get the Linux client to automount the HP-UX user file system.
To be more precise:
host a: /share/home/general is the exported file system on the HP server and
is also the NIS server.
host b: is the RH6.0 Linux workstation that is set up with autofs and NIS
client.
host b has the following local files:
/etc/auto.master
#
/home /etc/auto.home -timeout 120
+auto.master
/etc/auto.home
#
+auto.home
Host b can see all of the maps but can not mount host a's file system. I
would expect host b to mount the file system in maybe /tmp_mnt/home and then
create a link as such /home user --> /tmp_mnt/home/user.
I am able to su to the id, it just does not mount the directory. But it
does work locally if I put an entry in the local auto.home, a link is
created from /home to where the local users directory is located.
In the system log, I get the following errors:
PAM_pwdb: do_file :could not create dir /home/user/.xauth
automount already mounted or /home busy
lookup for user failed: no such map in server's domain
Could anyone please help. I missed something here. All other HP clients
work fine. I am also trying to figure out where Linux temporarily mounts
the file system before it makes the link from /home.
Tim Hicks
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