Pls help on configuring autofs on NFS for home dir

Pls help on configuring autofs on NFS for home dir

[Fajar Priyanto]

Hi all,
I'm trying to setup this scenario on NFS and autofs on Centos 4.3:
- useradd nfstest on an NFS server (192.168.1.247) 
- Setting up this NFS server /etc/exports:
/home/nfstest   192.168.1.252/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

- useradd nfstest on a client machine (192.168.1.252)
- make sure that the uid and gid are the same on the server and the client
- setting up /etc/auto.master:
/home/nfstest   /etc/auto.nfs   --timeout=60
- setting up /etc/auto.nfs:
* -rw,soft,intr 192.168.1.247:/home/&

- Restarting portmap, nfs, nfslock on the server
- Restarting autofs on the client

- showmount -e localhost:
/home/nfstest 192.168.1.252/255.255.255.0

- Try to logon using username on the client: nfstest

But I've got this error:

automount[5937]: >> mount: 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_profile failed, reason 
given by server: Permission denied
automount[5937]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure 
192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_profile on /home/nfstest/.bash_profile
automount[5937]: failed to mount /home/nfstest/.bash_profile
automount[5939]: >> mount: 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_login failed, reason 
given by server: Permission denied
automount[5939]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure 
192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_login on /home/nfstest/.bash_login
automount[5939]: failed to mount /home/nfstest/.bash_login
automount[5941]: >> mount: 192.168.1.247:/home/.profile failed, reason given 
by server: Permission denied

And on the login screen shows only this:
-bash-3.00$

Oh by the way, firewall is off.

But, when I did 'cd nfstest' it mount the directory!
Also as root, if I do 'cd /home/nfstest/nfstest' it mount the directory.

Is that the correct way? I mean why I need to 'cd' thing?
Am I missing something?
Thank you very much,
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Re: SOLVED?? Pls help on configuring autofs on NFS for home dir

[Fajar Priyanto]

On Tuesday 26 September 2006 11:19, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to setup this scenario on NFS and autofs on Centos 4.3:
> - useradd nfstest on an NFS server (192.168.1.247)
> - Setting up this NFS server /etc/exports:
> /home/nfstest   192.168.1.252/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
>
> - useradd nfstest on a client machine (192.168.1.252)
> - make sure that the uid and gid are the same on the server and the client
> - setting up /etc/auto.master:
> /home/nfstest   /etc/auto.nfs   --timeout=60
> - setting up /etc/auto.nfs:
> * -rw,soft,intr 192.168.1.247:/home/&
>
> - Restarting portmap, nfs, nfslock on the server
> - Restarting autofs on the client
>
> - showmount -e localhost:
> /home/nfstest 192.168.1.252/255.255.255.0
>
> - Try to logon using username on the client: nfstest
>
> But I've got this error:
>
> automount[5937]: >> mount: 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_profile failed, reason
> given by server: Permission denied
> automount[5937]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure
> 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_profile on /home/nfstest/.bash_profile
> automount[5937]: failed to mount /home/nfstest/.bash_profile
> automount[5939]: >> mount: 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_login failed, reason
> given by server: Permission denied
> automount[5939]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure
> 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_login on /home/nfstest/.bash_login
> automount[5939]: failed to mount /home/nfstest/.bash_login
> automount[5941]: >> mount: 192.168.1.247:/home/.profile failed, reason
> given by server: Permission denied
>
> And on the login screen shows only this:
> -bash-3.00$
>
> Oh by the way, firewall is off.
>
> But, when I did 'cd nfstest' it mount the directory!
> Also as root, if I do 'cd /home/nfstest/nfstest' it mount the directory.
>
> Is that the correct way? I mean why I need to 'cd' thing?
> Am I missing something?
> Thank you very much,

After a second thought...
I modify this:
/etc/exports:
/home   192.168.1.252/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

/etc/auto.master:
/mnt    /etc/auto.nfs   --timeout=60    -fstype=nfs

/etc/auto.nfs:
*       -rw,soft,intr   192.168.1.247:/home/&

And finally, I also modify the home directory of user: nfstest in /etc/passwd 
file from /home/nfstest to /mnt/nfstest

Try logon as nfstest, and... voila!! It works!!
Is this the correct way? Especially do I need to modify the home directory of 
the user in /etc/passwd?

Thank you very much.
-- 
Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial 
http://linux2.arinet.org
11:42am up 2:55, 2.6.16.13-4-default GNU/Linux 
Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org

Re: SOLVED?? Pls help on configuring autofs on NFS for home dir

[Fajar Priyanto]

On Tuesday 26 September 2006 11:19, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to setup this scenario on NFS and autofs on Centos 4.3:
> - useradd nfstest on an NFS server (192.168.1.247)
> - Setting up this NFS server /etc/exports:
> /home/nfstest   192.168.1.252/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
>
> - useradd nfstest on a client machine (192.168.1.252)
> - make sure that the uid and gid are the same on the server and the client
> - setting up /etc/auto.master:
> /home/nfstest   /etc/auto.nfs   --timeout=60
> - setting up /etc/auto.nfs:
> * -rw,soft,intr 192.168.1.247:/home/&
>
> - Restarting portmap, nfs, nfslock on the server
> - Restarting autofs on the client
>
> - showmount -e localhost:
> /home/nfstest 192.168.1.252/255.255.255.0
>
> - Try to logon using username on the client: nfstest
>
> But I've got this error:
>
> automount[5937]: >> mount: 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_profile failed, reason
> given by server: Permission denied
> automount[5937]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure
> 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_profile on /home/nfstest/.bash_profile
> automount[5937]: failed to mount /home/nfstest/.bash_profile
> automount[5939]: >> mount: 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_login failed, reason
> given by server: Permission denied
> automount[5939]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure
> 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_login on /home/nfstest/.bash_login
> automount[5939]: failed to mount /home/nfstest/.bash_login
> automount[5941]: >> mount: 192.168.1.247:/home/.profile failed, reason
> given by server: Permission denied
>
> And on the login screen shows only this:
> -bash-3.00$
>
> Oh by the way, firewall is off.
>
> But, when I did 'cd nfstest' it mount the directory!
> Also as root, if I do 'cd /home/nfstest/nfstest' it mount the directory.
>
> Is that the correct way? I mean why I need to 'cd' thing?
> Am I missing something?
> Thank you very much,

After a second thought...
I modify this:
/etc/exports:
/home   192.168.1.252/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

/etc/auto.master:
/mnt    /etc/auto.nfs   --timeout=60    -fstype=nfs

/etc/auto.nfs:
*       -rw,soft,intr   192.168.1.247:/home/&

And finally, I also modify the home directory of user: nfstest in /etc/passwd 
file from /home/nfstest to /mnt/nfstest

Try logon as nfstest, and... voila!! It works!!
Is this the correct way? Especially do I need to modify the home directory of 
the user in /etc/passwd?

Thank you very much.
-- 
Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial 
http://linux2.arinet.org
11:42am up 2:55, 2.6.16.13-4-default GNU/Linux 
Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org

Re: SOLVED?? Pls help on configuring autofs on NFS for home dir

[Dana Wellen]

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Re: SOLVED?? Pls help on configuring autofs on NFS for home dir

[Fajar Priyanto]

On Tuesday 26 September 2006 19:59, Dana Wellen wrote:
>  Fajar,
>    I assume you want your nfstest user to mount their home directory in
> /home.  Your autofs files should be:
>  auto.master
>  /home      /etc/auto.home --timeout=60
>  auto.home
> *       -rw,soft,intr   192.168.1.247:/home/&

Hi Dana,
Thank you very much for replying.
Actually, that was one of the first configurations I tried, but, when I tried 
it, autofs couldn't be started with error:
"Cannot start automount. 
/home already mounted"

I don't know, maybe it's because I have done some mistakes before. But, I 
couldn't restart the machine since it's my running mail server (shame on me 
by experimenting on a production server).

I'll setup some boxes at home to try it again.
I'll post the result.
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Re: SOLVED?? Pls help on configuring autofs on NFS for home dir

[Dana Wellen]

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Re: SOLVED?? Pls help on configuring autofs on NFS for home dir

[Ian Kent]

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 20:47 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 September 2006 19:59, Dana Wellen wrote:
> >  Fajar,
> >    I assume you want your nfstest user to mount their home directory in
> > /home.  Your autofs files should be:
> >  auto.master
> >  /home      /etc/auto.home --timeout=60
> >  auto.home
> > *       -rw,soft,intr   192.168.1.247:/home/&
> 
> Hi Dana,
> Thank you very much for replying.
> Actually, that was one of the first configurations I tried, but, when I tried 
> it, autofs couldn't be started with error:
> "Cannot start automount. 
> /home already mounted"

umount /home

I assume /home is not in use for home directories since you are testing
your setup.

> 
> I don't know, maybe it's because I have done some mistakes before. But, I 
> couldn't restart the machine since it's my running mail server (shame on me 
> by experimenting on a production server).

Depends on the version of autofs.

Ian