Thanks for all the good info and extra thanks to all who replied _again_ after my mail
server decided to get in the act.
Allan Johannesen
Kurt Ludwig
James Sainsbury
Knut Hellebo
Ann Buck
Allen Winter
Well this one threw me for a loop but I finally found out where `I' screwed up. It
wasn't a Sun problem. I snooped the convo between the Sun and the alphas and the
automounter was doing everything right. It was definately a permission problem Everyone
continued to hammer on "its a permission problem" and you were right. Turns out it
wasn't the permissions of "/home1" but the permissions of "/tmp_mnt/home1" that
prevented the user from seeing their data. Apparently at one time I must have created
"/home1" incorrectly and therefore when the automounter ran, /tmp_mnt/home1 was created
incorrectly. However deleting "/home1" and letting the automounter create "/home1" again
did nothing to the permissions on the "/tmp_mnt/home1" directory. (and I wasn't thinking
/tmp_mnt/home1 at the time therefore prolonging my agony) Eliminating "/tmp_mnt/home1"
and letting the automounter create it again corrected the problem.
Thanks again
/mark
->
->I have a Sun Ultra 60 Raid 5 server running 2.6 that we are testing as a $HOME
->server for Compaq XP1000 workstations running Tru64 Version 4.0F. On the Sun we
->have simply shared the appropriate filesystem with an option of
->rw=system:system:system etc. The Compaq's automount the home directory when the
->user logs in.
->
->I singled out a few compaq workstations to test this with and it has been
->working fine. Today I propogated those changes to the rest of the clients. Now
->that I have done that, the remaining clients fail to mount the users home
->directory. Well, not exactly. Using "df" before and after the attempted login
->will show you the automounter did indeed make the mount however the user does
->not have permission to read the data. The user is logged in with a temp home of
->/. (Keep in the mind the select machines we used for testing, which are
->identical to every other machine, still work ok).
->
->A little investigation shows that if I add the end user to the "system" group on
->the Compaq, the user has no problems logging in and seeing all their files. The
->same user is not in the system group on the select machines used for testing.
->
->I've checked UID's, GID,s permissions, connectivity... Any thoughts would be
->appreciated.
->
->Mark S. Yamnicky
->Boeing Satellite Systems
->marco_at_nirvana.es.hac.com
->310.364.6473
Received on Tue Jan 09 2001 - 18:05:05 NZDT