nfs homedirs

bruno.vila · 06-28-2012, 10:25 AM

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