[SunHELP] mount/umount

[Bruce Pullig]

I prefer doing it that way.  Following are some "quick and dirty"
instruction to get you started:   

NON-NIS:
In /etc/passwd on workstations set your user home directories to
/home/<username> then: (You will need users defined on both servers &
workstations)

Do this on your NFS server:
mkdir /export/home/<username>
chown <username> /export/home/<username>
(User IDs MUST be the same on all machines!)

Add the following to your /etc/dfs/dfstab:
share -F nfs -d "Home Directories" /export/home

then run:
/etc/init.d/nfs.server start


Do this on your workstations:
Make sure you have an entry in /etc/auto_master for auto_home that looks
like this:
/home         auto_home

echo "<username>  <Servername>:/export/home/<username>" >>/etc/auto_home

/usr/sbin/automount

NIS:
In /etc/passwd on the NIS Master set your user home directories to
/home/<username> then:

Do this on your NFS server:
mkdir /export/home/<username>
chown <username> /export/home/<username>

Add the following to your /etc/dfs/dfstab:
share -F nfs -d "Home Directories" /export/home

then run:
/etc/init.d/nfs.server start

Make these changes on your NIS Master:
Make sure you have an entry in /etc/auto.master for auto.home that looks
like this:
/home         auto.home

echo "<username>  <Servername>:/export/home/<username>" >>/etc/auto.home

cd /var/yp
make

then run the following on your workstations:
/usr/sbin/automount


I hope I didn't miss anything.  If you have any problems still, let me
know.

Bruce

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  Bruce Pullig, CSA, CNA, MCPS
  Senior Systems Administrator
  GeoQuest DMC
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James Fogg wrote:
> 
> > Also i am unable to create home directories for my users
> > even admin tool in CDE is unable to do so
> > i belive it have something to do with automount right ?
> > how can i correct it ?
> 
> This may be unique to my install, but I found I cannot create user
> directories in /home/username. (Solaris 5.7 on SS5).
> 
> Use /export/home/username. I am *told* that the idea of an export/home
> directory is that Sun had the big idea of using one machine to store
> everybody's home directory and having other machines mount that home directory
> via NFS. That way no matter what machine you were using you had the same
> home directory with all your files available. When I try to create a
> subdirectory on /home I get an error (even as root). Something like "operation
> not applicable".
> 
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