auto mount home from network and login as user on Debian OS - tried /etc/fstab
 

Hi all,

I recently changed my OS from Red Hat to Debian and I need to mount my home directory from the network automatically on reboot.

The following commands work perfectly on command prompt,
mount -t nfs 192.168.9.15:/home /home

and I have even made the required changes /etc/fstab and /etc/exports to automate the mount.

Now comes the weird part: After reboot , I am only able to to login as root . After logging into root though , I can browse to home/emma directory on the network.
I am unable to login using my username emma and access the files and shared softwares on the network. Any help on this is highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Emma

As the user when you mount automatically using /etc/fstab is root, could be the case where the directory mounted have root:root as owner. This could be the cause of your problems.

HTH

Hi emma,

given the first sentence it looks like the /home directory is actually mounted. So your problem is that you cannot log in as a regular user. Could you look into /var/log/syslog or auth.log and check for some error messages regarding the failed login?

Are you trying to log in on a console? Or via ssh?

Robert

I checked both /etc/fstab and /var/log/syslog again and it appeared that NIS client was not able to identify the NIS server through ypbind.
By adding the server IP address to YPconfig file I was able to solve this error.

Thanks for your help,
Emma