autofs not mounting from nis maps

[David <spoel@xray.bmc.uu.se>]

Hi

I have a NIS server that broadcasts an auto.XXX files as such:

[root@appel2 proc]# ypcat -k auto.master
/home  auto.home
/usr/local  auto.local
/pub auto.pub

[root@appel2 proc]# ypcat -k auto.home | head -8
magnusa  hirst:/homes/hirst/dsk1/&
hattne   hirst:/homes/hirst/dsk2/&
maria  hirst:/homes/hirst/dsk2/&
diane  hirst:/homes/hirst/dsk2/&
alina dqs1:/user13/&
guestji hirst:/homes/hirst/dsk2/&
hanna hirst:/homes/hirst/dsk2/&
gunilla  bacon:/Users/&

...

On the client side roughly half of the directories are actually mounted
when I cd into them, the other half give:
[root@appel2 proc]# cd /home/magnusa
-bash: cd: /home/magnusa: No such file or directory

Without NIS everything works fine. However I have a few tens of
workstations so it's quite tedious to update all machines with new files
and restart autofs whenever something changes.

Am I doing something terribly wrong? Any other tips?

We are running debian on the servers and different Fedora's on the
clients.

-- 
David.
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David van der Spoel, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Molecular Biophysics group,
Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University.
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