UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

You have not posted what is in the nis map for auto_home - and your nsswitch.conf is looking at files first for automount. Automount is going to look into /etc/auto.master first where you have /home as /etc/auto.home so nis is never going to be looked at since you have already piped nis into your local /etc/auto.home.

You have to get rid of /etc/auto.home (rename it), point your /etc/auto.master to use the nis map.

thehoghunter,

my auto_home.org_dir

larry sunone:/export/home1/larry
...

I understand that my nsswitch.conf file points to the system /etc/auto.home first then nisplus. To my understanding if the /etc/auto.home file doe not have what I'm trying to mount it will look to the nisplus tables. That is what the nsswitch.conf supposed to do.

I have also tried to just have the nsswitch.conf file point to just nisplus, have auto.master point to nisplus map and remove /etc/auto.home file. But nothing.

Larry,

Seems like hoghunter was stating that since your /etc/auto.home already contained the information from nis+, automount would never bother to try nis+ since it found the correct entry.

Can you/have you tried to mount via command line any of the home directories? Does the NIS server share the home directories out to any other servers and is it working?

RTM, thehoghunter,

Thanks for your input. But I have remove all entries in the /etc/auto.home and made /etc/auto.master look at

automount: nisplus auto_home

This does not work. I have also tried to put nothing in the /etc/auto.home and have the /etc/nsswitch.conf look at the file then the nisplus file:

automount: files nisplus [NOTFOUND=return]

This does not work. But I did look at the autofs file. I think I will have to change it so that in knows about nisplus. THANKS