Configuring the NFS Client

Make sure the required netfs, nfslock, and portmap daemons are running and configured to start after the next reboot:

[root@smallfry tmp]# chkconfig nfslock on
[root@smallfry tmp]# chkconfig netfs on
[root@smallfry tmp]# chkconfig portmap on
[root@smallfry tmp]# service portmap start
Starting portmapper: [  OK  ]
[root@smallfry tmp]# service netfs start
Mounting other filesystems:  [  OK  ]
[root@smallfry tmp]# service nfslock start
Starting NFS statd: [  OK  ]
[root@smallfry tmp]#

Keep a copy of the old /home directory, and create a new directory /home on which you'll mount the NFS server's directory.

[root@smallfry tmp]# mv /home /home.save
[root@smallfry tmp]# mkdir /home
[root@smallfry tmp]# ll /
...
...
drwxr-xr-x   1  root   root   11 Nov 16 20:22 home
drwxr-xr-x   2  root   root 4096 Jan 24 2003 home.save
...
...
[root@smallfry tmp]#

Make sure you can mount Bigboy's /home directory on the new /home directory you just created. Unmount it once everything looks correct:

[root@smallfry tmp]# mount 192.168.1.100:/home /home/
[root@smallfry tmp]# ls /home
ftpinstall nisuser quotauser smallfry www
[root@smallfry tmp]# umount /home
[root@smallfry tmp]#

Start configuring autofs automounting. Edit your /etc/auto.master file to refer to file /etc/auto.home for mounting information whenever the /home directory is accessed. After five minutes, autofs unmounts the directory:

#/etc/auto.master
/home /etc/auto.home --timeout 600

Edit file /etc/auto.home to do the NFS mount whenever the /home directory is accessed. If the line is too long to view on your screen, you can add a \ character at the end to continue on the next line:

#/etc/auto.home
*    -fstype=nfs,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid,tcp \
     192.168.1.100:/home:&

Start autofs and make sure it starts after the next reboot with the chkconfig command:

[root@smallfry tmp]# chkconfig autofs on
[root@smallfry tmp]# service autofs restart
Stopping automount:[  OK  ]
Starting automount:[  OK  ]
[root@smallfry tmp]#