Re: NFS/autofs problem

From: Mike Miller (mcubed5_at_ftml.net)
Date: 10/19/04

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    In article <2tkj0pF211sr0U1@uni-berlin.de>, emil.petkov@usa.net says...
    > Mike Miller wrote:
    >
    > > In article <2tkck2F20nm89U1@uni-berlin.de>, emil.petkov@usa.net says...
    > >
    > >>I have two Solaris 8 boxes on different networks using NIS+. There are
    > >>no other suns in the network. One of them (call it aserver) is the
    > >>homedir server. The other (call it aclient) mounts the homedirs via
    > >>autofs and the auto_home NIS+ table. Until yesterday everything was
    > >>working OK. Then suddenly I couldn't see the home directories from aclient.
    > >
    > >
    > > So what has changed? In cases like this it is almost always because someone
    > > made a change. Did someone change a router setting or put a firewall in
    > > place?
    >
    > This is a good question. I have asked the IT services about that but my
    > experience shows that it will take a while before they answer. However,
    > this is what I know:
    >
    > There is only one router between the two networks. If I scan the server
    > from the client with nmap I see that the nfs udp port (2049/udp) as well
    > as rpc are open.
    >
    > aclient# rpcinfo -p aserver
    >
    > lists all necessary programs.
    >
    > E.
    >
    In your first post you said normal NFS mounts worked. Have you tried
    mounting one of the home directories by hand? Also, are you using netgroups
    anywhere? And how about the underlying permissions on the mount points?
    Since it doesn't look like your network infrastructure changed these are
    some items that can cause permission denied on automounts. 

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Mike Miller
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