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bruno.vila 06-28-2012 10:25 AM
nfs homedirs
 
I have the following structure for the home dirs of users

Code:
/home
  |-somedir
      |-school1
          |-user1
          |-user2
            ......
          |-userN
      |-school2
          |-userk1
          |-userk2
            ......
          |-userkN
how can I export theese home dirs and mount them in clients with autofs?

custangro 06-28-2012 10:40 AM
It would help if you mention what OS you're using...

But this is how you'd do it on a Red Hat based system (RHEL/CentOS/Fedora...)

Export the "/home" dir as an NFS share...edit the "/etc/export" file and share it out to your network...

Code:
/home        192.168.1.0/24(rw,no_root_squash)
And start the NFS services

Code:
root@host# service nfs restart
root@host# chkconfig nfs on
Edit the /etc/auto.master and add this

[code]
/rhome /etc/auto.rhome --timeout=60
[code]

Create the /etc/auto.rhome file and add this (where 192.168.1.10 is your NFS server)

Code:
*        -rw,soft,intr        192.168.1.10:/home/school1/&
Start autofs and make sure it starts on boot

Code:
root@host# service autofs restart
root@host# chkconfig autofs on
Now make sure all your users have "/rhome/username" set as their homedir in the /etc/passwd file


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