Sudhaker,
Is it posible to automount the home directories like nfs implimentation in
solaris,if yes
Please tell me how to do home dir maping ueing autofs
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.
Please help
Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
> Rajeev Rao proclaimed:
> > I'm trying to setup NIS with RH6.2, at home. I've got two machines. I've
> > managed to setup one as server, and one as the client.
> > In the Server I have a single user, titled Rajeev. While logging through the
> > client this is what happens
> > login: Rajeev
> > Password:
> > Last Login: Thu Nov 9 21:52:38 on tty1
> > bash$
> >
> > This does not provide me access to the actual home directory, where my files
> > are. What's the problem? Thanks in advance.
>
> NIS is complemented by the Network File System (NFS). NIS, by itself,
> will only make common configuration information (such as
> username/password, printer configs, location of user home directories
> etc.) across the network. You will actually have to habe an NFS server
> running on the machine which contains the user's home directory and an
> NFS client running on all other machines for the home directory stuff to
> work.
>
> On the NIS server, install an NFS server. Also export /home/rajeev on
> this server. Have a map in the NIS server called something like
> auto.home. Include this map in auto.master
>
> On the client machines, enable NFS client support. Also, enable autofs
> support in the kernel and install the user-level autofs daemons. On the
> client machine, configure autofs such that /home is understood to be
> automountable.
>
> Thaths
>
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