need help with automounter on RS/6000
Russell A. Heise
RAH at IBM.COM
Tue Jul 24 06:20:28 AEST 1990
guest at albert.ai.mit.edu (Guest Account) writes:
> I have set up TCP/IP and NFS and YP with SMIT, but there wasn't much
> support for the automounter, just two menu options, start and stop,
> for the automounter. Since 'start' didn't work I have tried the following
> things to fix it:
>
> Added auto.master to YP. "auto.master" contains "/net -hosts intr,nosuid"
>
> Ran "newkey -u root" and "newkey -h chocolate" to generate publickey.byname
> entries.
>
> Ran keyserv -n to generate /etc/.rootkey.
>
> Added /etc/site and YP'd it into site.byname. This is just an empty file,
> on our master YP server, does anyone know what goes in it?
>
> Anyway the error message I am now getting when I try "automount /net -hosts"
> is "Authentication error ... not owner" or something to the effect that
> secure RPC is failing.
It is difficult to offer specific recommendations based on vague reports
of the error message you get. However, I can offer some suggestions:
1) Check the format and contents of your "auto.master" file against the
recommendations in InfoExplorer. In particular, notice that
auto.master consists of lines in the format:
directory_path automount_map_name
This file, then, points to other maps (files).
2) Make sure that you have added the two auto.master stanzas in
/etc/yp/Makefile.
3) cd to /etc/yp and run 'make' to update all the maps.
4) On each server, confirm that you have the '-secure' option on each
entry in /etc/exports.
5) On each client that wants to mount one of the secure filesystems,
make sure that the corresponding stanza in /etc/filesystems has the
'-secure' option.
6) A general tip: never use 'kill -9 PID' on the automounter deamon.
Just use 'kill PID' to stop it.
Russ Heise, AIX Technical Support, IBM
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