NFS client issue

Deathkarr · 02-11-2010, 07:09 PM

Hi all. I've been following a how to from linux home networking that tells me how to share home directories. Though I have run into a problem on the client side. Upon trying to log in from a user on the server it comes up with the following:

Your home directory is listed as /home/useraccount but it does not appear to exist do you want to log in with the / (root) directory as your home directory.

After saying yes as no returns you back to log in screen it comes up with the following message

User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. User's home directory must be owned by user and not writable by others

It then goes to a blank screen for a while before returning to the login screen again. Can someone please help

theNbomr · 02-11-2010, 08:17 PM

Okay, I will rephrase your question to frame my response. You are trying to login to (not mount an NFS share on) a presumably Linux host. The host says you don't have a home directory, and askes you if you want to login using the root directory as a home directory, but fails because you can't really use / as a home directory. This begs the questions, do you have an active account on that host? and why do you need to login to it if you just want to mount a shared home directory?
Once you get an account, assuming the host has a properly set up NFS server, you should need only to do

Code:

mount -t nfs //thefileserver/home/useraccount /some/mountpint/of/your/choice

You will probably need to do this as root.

Am I missing something?

--- rod.

Deathkarr · 02-11-2010, 09:29 PM

Alright I'm using openldap on the server and I would like the home directories to be mounted from the server. I do have an account which I convert into ldap before trying to log in on the client.

chrism01 · 02-11-2010, 10:45 PM

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/ is a good site, but it sounds like you need to read both the NFS http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...ccess_with_NFS AND LDAP http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...DAP_and_RADIUS articles.
have you been through both of them?

theNbomr · 02-12-2010, 09:22 AM

When you say 'login' are you really trying to say 'mount'? A login is a whole different process than mounting a network share.
--- rod.

Deathkarr · 02-15-2010, 01:24 AM

I'm using ldap as for user information and nfs for mounting the users home directory upon login. Here's what I did for the server.

1. I edidted the /etc/exports file and added the following lines
/home *(rw,sync)

2. I then typed in the following commands

Code:

[root@homer tmp]# exportfs -a
[root@homer tmp]# chkconfig nfslocik on
[root@homer tmp]# chkconfig nfs on
[root@homer tmp]# chkconfig portmap on
[root@homer tmp]# service portmap start
Starting portmapper: [ OK ]
[root@homer tmp]# service nfslock start
Starting NFS statd: [ OK ]
[root@homer tmp]# service nfs start
Starting NFS services: [ OK ]
Starting NFS quotas: [ OK ]
Starting NFS daemon: [ OK ]
Starting NFS mountd: [ OK ]

Client Configuration

1. I typed in the following commands

Code:

[root@smallfry tmp]# chkconfig nfslock on
[root@smallfry tmp]# chkconfig netfs on
[root@smallfry tmp]# chkconfig portmap on
[root@smallfry tmp]# service portmap start
Starting portmapper: [ OK ]
[root@smallfry tmp]# service netfs start
Mounting other filesystems: [ OK ]
[root@smallfry tmp]# service nfslock start
Starting NFS statd: [ OK ]
[root@smallfry tmp]# mv /home /home.save
[root@smallfry tmp]# mkdir /home
[root@smallfry tmp]# ll/
(series of dots followed by users)

I then tested to see if I could mount the new home directory

Code:

[root@smallfry tmp]# mount 192.168.0.1:/home /home/
[root@smallfry tmp]# ls/home
(not to sure what ls/home returned)
[root@smallfry tmp]# umount /home

I then edited the autofs file /etc/auto.master

Code:

#/etc/auto.master
/home        /etc/auto.home --timeout 600

Then edited the /etc/auto.home

Code:

#/etc/auto.home
*  -fstype=nfs,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid,tcp \
   192.168.0.1:/home/&

To finish off i used the following commands

Code:

[root@smallfry tmp]# chkconfig autofs on
[root@smallfry tmp]# service autofs restart
Stopping automount: [ OK ]
Starting automount: [ OK ]

My nfs config came from http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...onfiguring_NIS. Would it be better if I continued setting up a nis system. If so how would I go about removing ldap.Is this all corect. Is there a file or so I could provide you guys with that will help you correct the problem. Thanks so much for your help