OpenLDAP + Automount question

[John Gerth]

Prakash Velayutham wrote:

> 
> Thanks for the reply. I have a small question regarding LDAP and Automount and 
> sorry to bother you with this. Please reply only if you have time.
> 
> I have NIS maps in my LDAP for automounting home dirs. In the LDAP server 
> (assuming it can be a client of itself), my nsswitch.conf has "automount: 
> files ldap" option.
> But when I restart autofs using "rcautofs restart", this is what I get,
>   Shutting down service automount                                                                                         
>   done
>   Starting service automounter ("files ldap" does not provide any mounts)                                                                          
>   skipped
> When I try to login as a LDAP user on the server itself, system logs in but 
> complains about user's home dir not existing (which I thought means it is not 
> able to automount). Due to this, I am not able to use Samba also to 
> automount.
> 
  Well, the fact that the automounter doesn't find any mounts is surely your problem.
  And since it is unable to find home directories when logging in to Linux itself,
  Samba is not the issue.

  Unfortunately, I don't use NIS or LDAP to store automount maps so you should ask
  that question on some appropriate Linux list.