[CentOS] automounter with users home directories on centos 7.

James A. Peltier jpeltier at sfu.ca
Wed Sep 9 21:35:06 UTC 2015


----- Original Message -----
| Not tried automount with Centos 7 nor with selinux.
| 
| With that said autofs relies on nfs mounting to work, so have you
| started there by attempting to manually mount /home?
| 
| Another place to look is at the hostname.  I've had problems where auto
| mount doesn't like the short name and insists on using a FQDN, to get
| around that you could try using the IP address rather than the hostname.
| 
| On 09/09/15 16:31, Jason Welsh wrote:
| > showmount -e
| 
| --
| If money can fix it, it's not a problem.
|   -- Click and Clack the Tappet brothers

/home is a directory by default on all GNU/Linux hosts.  If you plan to use it as a mount point then you need to remove the directory and then start autofs otherwise there will be a conflict.
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