Trying to automount /home with info from NIS

[Nico De Ranter <nico@sonycom.com>]

Hi,

I have a SUN based network. All user info (passwd, homedir)
is distributed through NIS.  I want to integrate a Linux box
in my network allowing all my users to logon to it and 
get their homedirectory mounted automaticaly. I'm trying to 
use autofs to do this. I created

bison:/# more /etc/auto.master 
/home +auto_home

NIS contains a map called auto_home:

bison:/# ypcat -k auto_home
nico immortelle:/usr/people/nico
...

However when I try to access /home/nico I get

bison:/# cd /home/nico
bash: cd: /home/nico: No such file or directory

In /var/log/daemon.log I find:

Jun 28 15:14:59 bison automount[7890]: attempting to mount entry /home/nico
Jun 28 15:14:59 bison automount[8733]: lookup(yp): looking up nico
Jun 28 15:14:59 bison automount[8733]: lookup(yp): lookup for nico failed: No such map in server's domain


It looks like automount is trying to use the map 'nico' in stead
of looking up 'nico' in the map 'auto_home' ?

Any ideas how I can get this to work?

I'm using autofs 3.1.7-1 on Debian 'testing'.

Is there any other automounter software (besides amd which doesn't seem
to understand the SUN automounter map)

Thanks in advance,

Nico



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