As admin, I created user account called "forum", with password "forum", I tried to access user account, by logging out from admin account and relogin as user "forum", I received this error message:

"Unable to access home directoy. Click OK to start a Failsafe session, or Cancel to restart login"

maybe as admin you can create a home directory for your user.

I created home directory for the user in /export/home, but still the same problem

This guy has got same my problem:

http://supportforum.sun.com/sunos/in...e47ab1d8d7712e

I edit the /etc/passwd file, and I changed the "/home/forum" to "/export/forum" (replace home to export).

Note:
forum is the home directory for the user forum.

I was able to get rid of this message:

"Unable to access home directoy. Click OK to start a Failsafe session, or Cancel to restart login".

But then I received another message, I have not recorded that message (because I am far away from my unix box right now)

This is not the best way to solve the issue.

First home directories should be in /export/home/<username>, not directly under /export, this is not mandatory, but is a convention with Solaris.

Second, home directories should be accessed through /home/<username>, this has been the common usage since the beginning of unix development.

To achieve that, you just have to add a line like this in the /etc/auto_home file:
<username> <hostname>:/export/home/<username>
e.g.:
forum mypc:/export/home/forum

or if you have a bunch of users:

* mypc:/export/home/&

The goal is to prepare the feature of sharing user's home directories between several hosts through NFS.

Yes you are right, this was mistyping from me.

What same problem ?
Is forum owning the /export/home/forum directory ?
Did you modify the auto_home file as I suggested ?

# cat /etc/passwd###########Just I diplayed the /etc/passwd to see the users
root:x:0:0:Super-User:/:/sbin/sh
daemon:x:1:1::/:
bin:x:2:2::/usr/bin:
sys:x:3:3::/:
adm:x:4:4:Admin:/var/adm:
lp:x:71:8:Line Printer Admin:/usr/spool/lp:
uucp:x:5:5:uucp Admin:/usr/lib/uucp:
nuucp:x:9:9:uucp Admin:/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/lib/uucp/uucico
smmsp:x:25:25:SendMail Message Submission Program:/:
listen:x:37:4:Network Admin:/usr/net/nls:
gdm:x:50:50:GDM Reserved UID:/:
webservd:x:80:80:WebServer Reserved UID:/:
nobody:x:60001:60001:NFS Anonymous Access User:/:
noaccess:x:60002:60002:No Access User:/:
nobody4:x:65534:65534:SunOS 4.x NFS Anonymous Access User:/:
forum:x:100:1::/home/forum:/bin/sh
forum1:x:101:1::/home/forum1:/bin/sh
forum2:x:102:1::/home/forum2:/bin/sh


gedit /etc/auto_home
# Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
# Use is subject to license terms.
#
# ident "@(#)auto_home 1.6 03/04/28 SMI"
#
# Home directory map for automounter
#
+auto_home
forum 193.225.160.177:/export/home/forum ######I added this line
forum1 193.225.160.177:/export/home/forum1 ######I added this line
forum2 193.225.160.177:/export/home/forum2 ######I added this line


I created manually these users in the /export/home

mkdir /export/home/forum
mkdir /export/home/forum1
mkdir /export/home/forum2

# ls /export/home
forum forum1 forum2

Still I can not access as normal user ?
Do I need to create symbolic link between /export/home and /home?

Is there any thing else I have to do

Any other advice I have to be aware or try?

You need to NFS share the user's home directories.

file /etc/dfs/dfstab :

share -F nfs -o rw -d "home directories" /export/home

run this command as is too or reboot to enable the NFS service.

I am going to try what you have suggested, but could you please tell me why do we have to share the user's home directories?

I think the way you specified the home directory location (by its IP address) implies NFS will be used to access it.

It would probably had worked without the need to launch the NFS service should you use the hostname instead of the IP address, but this is just a guess.

Anyway, the automounter is showing its full interest when the user's home directories is unique, whatever the server the user is connected to, and this implies NFS is enabled.

I tried this:
# share -F nfs -o rw -d 193.225.160.177/export/home
Output was:
Usage: share [-o options] [-d description] pathname [resource]

Am I doing the right thing ? Is there some thing wrong the command ?

This is what I suggested:
This is what you tried:
Hmm, look closer to find if some difference exists ...