RHEL4 autofs on /home

onthefritz · 04-12-2010, 02:20 PM

Ok, for some reason I can't get autofs to work on /home. I setup a NIS server and wanted to map the /home on the client to the /home on the server with NFS. But I want to use autofs to mount the users' home directories. BUT I get an error every time. Here is my configuration:

Turned off firewall and SELinux on both system to rule those out. It works if I use /tmp/home as the autofs mount, but no with /home.

SERVER:

/etc/exports

Code:

/home/  10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0(async,rw,no_root_squash)

CLIENT:
/etc/auto.master

Code:

# Sample auto.master file
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# For details of the format look at autofs(5).
#/misc  /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60
#/misc  /etc/auto.misc
#/net   /etc/auto.net
/home   /etc/auto.home

/etc/auto.home

Code:

*       -rw,soft,intr   mynis:/home/&

This is the error I get when trying to start the autofs service.

Code:

[root@nisclient ~]# service autofs start
Starting automount: /home: mount failed!
failed to load map: /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 /home file /etc/auto.home
                                                           [FAILED]

Thank you in advance....

OTF

AlucardZero · 04-12-2010, 08:19 PM

What's in /var/log/messages after you start autofs?

onthefritz · 04-13-2010, 08:37 AM

There are 3 lines that show up.

Code:

Apr 13 06:34:09 localhost automount[14892]: mount_autofs: already mounted
Apr 13 06:34:09 localhost automount[14892]: /home: mount failed!
Apr 13 06:34:09 localhost autofs: automount startup failed

Could it be because there is already a /home mount point? So it wont let me mount there again with autofs?

Here is a copy of my fstab.. (it's the default install for VMware....)

Code:

[root@nisclient home]# cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda5         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hdc                /media/cdrom            auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hda                /media/cdrom1           auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

Fritz

AlucardZero · 04-13-2010, 10:53 AM

What does mount | grep home return?

onthefritz · 04-13-2010, 12:10 PM

Code:

/dev/sda3 on /home type ext3 (rw)

I think that's the issue... I'm going to test pulling /home from fstab and unmounting it.

EDIT: Yes, this was the issue!

OTF