On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Thomas Burns <tburns at hawaii.edu> wrote: > Any relevant messages in /var/log/messages of the server? Is automount > able to mount and it is "just" a permissions problem? > > I had a vaguely similar problem recently, trying to get OSX to access > NIS/NFS, it needs different mount options in the automounter config. > > You say you tried with automount turned off, were you able to mount > manually but not able to access? Same error message? > > What does nsswitch.conf look like? > > Generally my trouble shooting goes like this: > 1) get NIS to work ('ypcat mymap' works) > 2) mount NFS share manually with mount command and access as root > 3) access NFS share as ordinary user > 4) get automount to mount the share Thanks for your response Dave! I have been unable to find anything relevant in the server syslogs. But here is what i have tried: 1) ypcat mymap gives me back what i would expect, as does a ypcat -k passwd | grep myusername 2) I can mount the share manually on the workstation (using -o nfsvers=3,rw,hard,intr options) and it mounts and i can traverse it as a root user 3) I can mount the share manually on the workstation and i can traverse it as root and as a local user 4) i can then put the map in place, restart autofs, log in via a NIS account and it maps correctly and i can traverse it properly in a shell (i.e. ssh, etc) 5) i tried mounting manually, creating a $home directory for a new user, giving that user a password and i can ssh in but not Gnome or KDE 6) variations of the above. And this *IS* working currently on a Sun X4540 system, and the NON-HOME directories that get mapped upon login correctly map on the HP X9320 via NIS authentication just not X. Thanks for the help and logical thinking. Michael