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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support NIS created users without a home directory Post 302903440 by otheus on Tuesday 27th of May 2014 04:32:06 PM
Old 05-27-2014
You're confounding NIS with NFS. The former allows hosts to share information services such as the user database and hostnames. The latter allows home directories to be shared (for instance).

The NIS Master and NFS master do not have to be the same host, but it's not unsual to make it so. On the NFS Master, you install the nfs tools and start the nfs service. You modify /etc/exports (man 5 exports) to tell NFS to export some path, ie /home:
Code:
/home  *(rw,no_root_squash)

On the other host, you modify /etc/fstab
Code:
... (previous fstab entries)
master:/home  /home    nfs  rw

Where "master" is the hostname of your NFS master. Then run mount:
Code:
# mount -a -t nfs

Let's say you have a user Joe, who is listed in the NIS user database and has a home directory on host "master" as /home/joe. When you login on the "client" host as user Joe, the home directory should be available. If the login process hangs or you get the error "No such directory" then something went wrong.
Last edited by otheus; 05-27-2014 at 05:35 PM.. Reason: fixed field reversal for fstab
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LEARN ABOUT POSIX

mount.nfs

MOUNT.NFS(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      MOUNT.NFS(8)

NAME

       mount.nfs, mount.nfs4 - mount a Network File System

SYNOPSIS

       mount.nfs remotetarget dir [-rvVwfnsh ] [-o options]

DESCRIPTION

       mount.nfs is a part of nfs(5) utilities package, which provides NFS client functionality.

       mount.nfs  is  meant to be used by the mount(8) command for mounting NFS shares. This subcommand, however, can also be used as a standalone
       command with limited functionality.

       remotetarget is a server share usually in the form of servername:/path/to/share.  dir is the directory on which the file system	is  to	be
       mounted.

       Under  Linux  2.6.32  and  later  kernel  versions, mount.nfs can mount all NFS file system versions.  Under earlier Linux kernel versions,
       mount.nfs4 must be used for mounting NFSv4 file systems while mount.nfs must be used for NFSv3 and v2.

OPTIONS

       -r     Mount file system readonly.

       -v     Be verbose.

       -V     Print version.

       -w     Mount file system read-write.

       -f     Fake mount. Don't actually call the mount system call.

       -n     Do not update /etc/mtab.	By default, an entry is created in /etc/mtab for every mounted file system. Use this option to skip making
	      an entry.

       -s     Tolerate sloppy mount options rather than fail.

       -h     Print help message.

       nfsoptions
	      Refer to nfs(5) or mount(8) manual pages.

NOTE

       For further information please refer nfs(5) and mount(8) manual pages.

FILES

       /etc/fstab	 file system table

       /etc/mtab	 table of mounted file systems

SEE ALSO

       nfs(5), mount(8),

AUTHOR

       Amit Gud <agud@redhat.com>

								    5 Jun 2006							      MOUNT.NFS(8)
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