<p dir="ltr">I use fstab for data dirs and automounter for home dirs. Many more users than data dirs so it saves some memory in each machine to only track active users.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If automounter isn't working but manual mount is, it's not firewall but a mapping bug or a dns issue. I have to run my own dns and have even the dhcp machine set to use my dns. Part of that is for freeipa and other is for automount. I used the server IP for a while but have a reconfig approaching where names will make my life easier.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 31, 2016 5:34 PM, "Todor Fassl" <<a href="mailto:fassl.tod@gmail.com">fassl.tod@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Is there any drawback to mounting the NFS share for home directories in the fstab versus using the automounter?<br>
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For example, I could put a line in /etc/fstab like this:<br>
nfshome:/export /home nfs4 defaults 0 0<br>
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Or I could have the automounter mount /home/username when the user logs in. I'm currently doing it via the automounter -- in fact, I always have. I've never actually configured a machine to mount at boot time an nfs share to use for home directories.<br>
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PS: The reason I am thinking of not using the automounter is that we ran out of office space in my building and we put a single user in another building. I can't get the automounter to work. Mounting home directories works if I type in a mount command:<br>
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mount -t nfs nfshome:/export/username /home/username<br>
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But the automounter does not work. Neither does showmount. If I type "shomount -e nfshome", it times out after about 30 seconds. I suspect a firewall issue wrt the portmapper (port 111). I put a packet sniffer on the nfs file server and it usually gets a UDP packet on port 111 from a workstation doing a showmount. But that packet does not arrive when the showmount is done from the workstation with the problem.<br>
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-- <br>
Todd<br>
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