NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering NFS
Configuring and Administering the NFS Automounter
Chapter 280
the automounter attempts to mount /home/charlie from host basil.
The asterisk is a match for charlie, so the automounter looks no further
and never reads the second line. However, if the /etc/auto_home map
contains the following lines,
charlie thyme:/home/charlie
* basil:/home/&
the automounter will mount Charlie’s home directory from host thyme
and everyone else’s home directory from host basil.
For more information on automounter configuration, type man 1M
automount at the HP-UX prompt.
To Automount Users’ Home Directories with the
-passwd Map
This task might require you to make some changes to your NFS servers
as well as your NFS clients.
NOTE The -passwd map requires that users’ home directories be located under
the same directory on all systems in the network. On HP-UX release 9.x
or earlier, home directories are usually located under /users. On HP-UX
release 10.0 or later, home directories are usually located under /home.
For this reason, you should not set up the -passwd map until all of your
systems are running HP-UX release 10.0 or later.
Setting up the NFS Server
1. On the NFS servers where home directories are located, make sure
every user’s home directory is of the form
directory/servername/username. For example, if the home
directories are located under the /home directory on server sage,
user Claire’s home directory would be /home/sage/claire.
2. Make sure the machines where users’ home directories are located
are set up as NFS servers and are exporting the home directories.
See “Configuring and Administering an NFS Server” on page 26.