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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers NFS mount home directory Post 16459 by Perderabo on Friday 1st of March 2002 03:40:14 PM
Old 03-01-2002
Well the home directory at least must be owned by the right uid. The the user on clientsystem had a uid of, say, 123, you really could just chown it to that numeric uid. Everything would work, however this situation bums me out. Therefore I would always ensure that the account exists on serversystem.

You can simply run the adduser program on both clientsys and serversys. Most folks would automate this somewhat. Other people copy passwd, shadow, and group around. Some people use rsync to automate the copy. Keeping 3 files in sync across several systems in a minor problem and there are dozens of solutions.

In the scenario we are describing, seversystem doesn't even need automounter running as I mentioned. If it doesn't need automounter running, it also wouldn't need any map file laying around. In fact, if /home is the location where these directories physically reside, it would be crucial that automounter not try to mount stuff there.

And bear in mind that you can't have it both ways. If you're not running NIS, then no entry in nsswitch.conf can specify NIS, including automount. So you can't use + in any maps. You have to modify the maps to be direct maps or something.
 

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showmount

SHOWMOUNT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					      SHOWMOUNT(8)

NAME

     showmount -- show remote NFS mounts on host

SYNOPSIS

     showmount [-Ae36] [-a | -d] [host]

DESCRIPTION

     showmount shows status information about the NFS server on host.  By default it prints the names of all hosts that have NFS file systems
     mounted on the host. See NFS: Network File System Protocol Specification, RFC 1094, Appendix A, and NFS: Network File System Version 3
     Protocol Specification, Appendix I, for a detailed description of the protocol.

     -A      Search for NFS servers advertised via Bonjour.

     -a      List all mount points in the form: host:dirpath

     -d      List directory paths of mount points instead of hosts.

     -e      Show the host's exports list.

     -3      Use mount protocol Version 3, compatible with NFS Version 3.

     -6      Use only IPv6 addresses to contact servers.

SEE ALSO

     mount(1), mountd(8), nfsd(8), mDNSResponder(8)

BUGS

     The mount daemon running on the server only has an idea of the actual mounts, since the NFS server is stateless.  showmount will only display
     the information as accurately as the mount daemon reports it.

HISTORY

     The showmount utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.

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