Hello, If I am understanding you correctly, you want to edit the automount field in /etc/nsswitch.conf to read nis first. I may be wrong, and I'm sure someone will correct me if that is the case. Cesar -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of joseph tacuyan Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:44 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: NIS home automount feature Howdy, I setup a test NIS domain that i'd like to test the home automounting feature so basically i done this; -Setup the NIS server and domain, make changes on Makefile to include auto.master, auto.home -had the client successfully connected to new NIS domain. on NIS/NFS server i added this on /etc/auto.master file; /home /etc/auto.home on /etc/auto.home i have this; * nfsserver:/home Now my problem is, how would i force/setup the client that it would use the auto{master,home} files on NIS server rather than using the locally same files, pointers and correction greatly appreciated. /joseph -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
