Cross Mounting Accounts

[Michael42]

In one environment I have a Solaris 8 server and 3 SunBlade 100 workstations.

1. I need to setup this environment where as when the client logs in, they log into the server. I must manually select the server from a list at present, then login.

2. I also need to implement cross-mounts from the workstations.

I am not sure how to do these.

Thanks very much for your help and advice. Michael

 

[jamisar]

use: automount
if NIS|NIS+ there is a table 'auto_home'
else edit /etc/auto_direct
look at man pages. ------------ jamisar
Einfachheit ist das Resultat der Reife. (Friedrich Schiller)
Simplicity is the fruit of maturity.

 

[Michael42]

On my server I have:

1. Ensured all systems proper in hosts file.
2. Created a user account for testing (with the home/username dir) using admintool.
3. Ensured the test user has proper permissions to /home/username dir.
4. Configured my dfstab file
5. Configured my auto_master and auto_home files.

I copied down to a test workstation, hosts, passwd and shadow,auto_master and auto_home files.

I am getting the following error when I attempt to login from the test workstation CDE:

Unable to access home directory.
Click OK to start Failsafe, or cancel to restart login.

What do you recommend?
Michael

 

[Michael42]

In case anyone is interested. Here is how I eventually created cross mounts for user accounts\hosts in a non-NIS environment. Adjust per your environment's requuirements:

Pre-requisites:

* Ensure host systems are in /.rhosts file:
<hostname> +
* Ensure host system(s) are in /etc/hosts file:
<ip> <hostname>
* Ensure host systems are in /etc/hosts.equiv file:
<hostname>

From Server (as root):
0. Create user accounts.
1. Create physical directory for user accounts: /export/home/<username>
2. Make user owner of user directory: chown <username>:staff /export/home/<username>
3. Set permissions: chmod 755 /export/home/<username>

4. Ensure /etc/auto_master is configure for /home (default):
/home auto_home -nobrowse
/xfn -xfn
/cots auto_cots -browse

5. Configure /etc/auto_home:
# Home directory map for automounter
# <username> <hostname>:/<fullpath>/<username>

smithj myserver:/export/home/smithj


6. Ensure home directory shared.
/usr/sbin/share

- /export/home rw &quot;&quot;

If not create share by editing /etc/dfs/dfstab as shown:

share -F nfs -o rw /export/home


Bounce NFS daemon:
/etc/rc3.d/S15nfs.server stop \ start

On some systems this may be:
/etc/init.d/nfs.server stop \ start


7. Ensure /etc/passwd has proper path for each user home directory:
smithj:x:1179:441:test account:/home/smithj:/bin/csh

8. Ensure shared directories available by running: /usr/sbin/automount -v



From Client:
1. Log in as root and copy down config files from server to client.

Script Example below can be run from server after client configured:

#!/bin/csh
# moveit.sh
foreach host ( host1 host2 host3 )
echo &quot;Start update $host.&quot;
/bin/rdist -c /etc/inet/hosts ${host}:/etc/inet/hosts
/bin/rdist -c /.rhosts ${host}:/.rhosts
/bin/rdist -c /etc/hosts.equiv ${host}:/etc/hosts.equiv
/bin/rdist -c /etc/passwd ${host}:/etc/passwd
/bin/rdist -c /etc/shadow ${host}:/etc/shadow
/bin/rdist -c /etc/group ${host}:/etc/group
/bin/rdist -c /etc/auto_master ${host}:/etc/auto_master
/bin/rdist -c /etc/auto_home ${host}:/etc/auto_home
/bin/rdist -c /etc/defaultrouter ${host}:/etc/defaultrouter
end

Add these if need be:
/bin/rdist -c /etc/nsswitch.conf ${host}:/etc/nsswitch.conf
/bin/rdist -c /etc/inet/inetd.conf ${host}:/etc/inet/inetd.conf
/bin/rdist -c /etc/inet/services ${host}:/etc/inet/services
/bin/rdist -c /etc/inet/system ${host}:/etc/inet/system
/bin/rdist -c /etc/default/login ${host}:/etc/default/login
/bin/rdist -c /etc/syslog.conf ${host}:/etc/syslog.conf


2. Init client to recognize nfs and shares by:
a. run /usr/sbin/automount -v






Michael