have installed RH9 on VMware Workstation 5.
Setup NIS client connecting to a Sun Solaris 8 NIS server
System authenticates NIS user correctly, but is having trouble with
properly handling home directories.

When I attempt to su as NIS user, I get the following:

[hr9 root]su - myNISUser
-bash exec: hostname: not found
@myNISUser> ls
-bash ls: command not found
@myNISUser> pwd
/home/myNISUser

I have noticed that automount is mapping the NIS home folders
to /user. Unfortunately, our standard is to map them to /home. I
would like to know how to change that. Currently, I see a process:

/usr/sbin/automount /user yp auto.home -nobrowse

I just don't know where to change that.

To resolve this, I mounted the home directories to the /home
directory in fstab. That still did not resolve the issue.

Any help will be GREATLY appreciated.

Check in /etc/auto.master or /etc/auto.home

Hope these site gives you some help

well to change the deafult location to /home change the settings in the configration file of NIS client