[CentOS] SOLVED?? Pls help on configuring autofs on NFS

Fajar Priyanto fajarpri at cbn.net.id
Mon Sep 25 11:45:19 UTC 2006


On Monday 25 September 2006 17:53, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to setup this scenario on NFS and autofs on Centos 4.3:
> - useradd nfstest on an NFS server (192.168.1.247)
> - Setting up this NFS server /etc/exports:
> /home/nfstest   192.168.1.252/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
>
> - useradd nfstest on a client machine (192.168.1.252)
> - make sure that the uid and gid are the same on the server and the client
> - setting up /etc/auto.master:
> /home/nfstest   /etc/auto.nfs   --timeout=60
> - setting up /etc/auto.nfs:
> * -rw,soft,intr 192.168.1.247:/home/&
>
> - Restarting portmap, nfs, nfslock on the server
> - Restarting autofs on the client
>
> - showmount -e localhost:
> /home/nfstest 192.168.1.252/255.255.255.0
>
> - Try to logon using username on the client: nfstest
>
> But I've got this error:
>
> automount[5937]: >> mount: 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_profile failed, reason
> given by server: Permission denied
> automount[5937]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure
> 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_profile on /home/nfstest/.bash_profile
> automount[5937]: failed to mount /home/nfstest/.bash_profile
> automount[5939]: >> mount: 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_login failed, reason
> given by server: Permission denied
> automount[5939]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure
> 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_login on /home/nfstest/.bash_login
> automount[5939]: failed to mount /home/nfstest/.bash_login
> automount[5941]: >> mount: 192.168.1.247:/home/.profile failed, reason
> given by server: Permission denied
>
> And on the login screen shows only this:
> -bash-3.00$
>
> Oh by the way, firewall is off.
>
> Am I missing something?
> Thank you very much,

Very strange.
If I do this to mount, it works:
cd /home/nfstest/nfstest

Is it the intended steps?

I'm not sure because, when I tried to logon as nfstest, it first fails, then 
it works when I do 'cd nfstest'

Can anyone comment on this?
Thank you very much.
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