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Old 01-25-2009
lost /home/directory for users

I'm using HPUX 11i. The other day a user logon to the workstation and was not able to find the /home/directory (tom is the directory) I login myself and it is the same thing.

The home directory is on the server, so I was thinking of using sam to map it again. does anyone know how to do it properly? (I'm new to this)

thanks
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Old 01-25-2009
It's probably not in the "default" location (/home/<username>). Depending on the purpose of the server, the administrators preferences, or the purpose for the user to log in, the /home/<username> directory could be anywhere. There might be a good reason it's not where you are expecting it to be.

I'm guessing you're not the original server admin or am I reading this wrong?
Also just a guess, you're using ssh to log in right?

When you log in and do pwd, what do you get?

You can cat /etc/passwd |grep <username> to see where the person's home directory is located. Or just cat /etc/passwd to see the entire passwd file.

You could also do a sudo find / -name <username> and the system will show you the exact directory where that user's home is.

I wouldn't "map" the home directories since that can cause some issues.
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Old 01-25-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by nixnoob
It's probably not in the "default" location (/home/<username>). Depending on the purpose of the server, the administrators preferences, or the purpose for the user to log in, the /home/<username> directory could be anywhere. There might be a good reason it's not where you are expecting it to be.

I'm guessing you're not the original server admin or am I reading this wrong?
Also just a guess, you're using ssh to log in right?

When you log in and do pwd, what do you get?

You can cat /etc/passwd |grep <username> to see where the person's home directory is located. Or just cat /etc/passwd to see the entire passwd file.

You could also do a sudo find / -name <username> and the system will show you the exact directory where that user's home is.

I wouldn't "map" the home directories since that can cause some issues.
I think somehow the server path got dismounted.

the serverA has: /Home/<directory>
workstationB connecting to serverA does not see the directory.

The user can logon to other workstations without any problems.
I'm thinking that the server is not connected to the server.

Thanks for your help.
# 4  
Old 01-25-2009
The first thing I'd try is to mount it manually from the client to see if you get any errors:

Code:
/usr/sbin/mount /home/tom

Note that there must be an entry in /etc/fstab for this to work (that might be your issue...it might've gotten deleted.

Further investigation...
On the server with the home directories, look in /etc/exports to see if the home directory is there. If not, no other machine will be able to access it. If it isn't, run

Code:
exportfs /path/to/home/directories

Also look and make sure the nfsd daemon is running by issuing:

Code:
ps -eaf | grep nfsd

# 5  
Old 01-25-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by candlejack
The first thing I'd try is to mount it manually from the client to see if you get any errors:

Code:
/usr/sbin/mount /home/tom

Note that there must be an entry in /etc/fstab for this to work (that might be your issue...it might've gotten deleted.

Further investigation...
On the server with the home directories, look in /etc/exports to see if the home directory is there. If not, no other machine will be able to access it. If it isn't, run

Code:
exportfs /path/to/home/directories

Also look and make sure the nfsd daemon is running by issuing:

Code:
ps -eaf | grep nfsd

Will try that.

It was actually working before it got rebooted (it is not a fresh install)

I'm thinking it is the automount. Unable to change directory to "/home/tom"
Logging in with home = "/".


Would the /etc/auto_master help? And would anyone know how to remount it? I can copy the files from other machines just to get it working again.

thanks
# 6  
Old 01-27-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by blizzgamer
Will try that.

It was actually working before it got rebooted (it is not a fresh install)

I'm thinking it is the automount. Unable to change directory to "/home/tom"
Logging in with home = "/".


Would the /etc/auto_master help? And would anyone know how to remount it? I can copy the files from other machines just to get it working again.

thanks
fixed. it wasn't mounting properly. the etc/fstab file was missing.
thanks to everyone.
 
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