Steve, Our setup does this and looks a bit like: /etc/auto.master contains: /home yp auto_home -rw,soft,int Make sure you seperate each entry on a line using tab (don't use spaces). A NIS map on the server called auto_home which contains lines like: enrico fileserver1:/home/& fred fileserver1:/home/& where the real homedir is on fileserver1 at /home/enrico Enable autofs: chkconfig autofs on and start it up: rcautofs start This works for us on SuSE 7.2 & 8.0. Actually we use more maps but just the ones you asked about are shown here. Don't forget that this will make unavailable any user homedirs that already exist on your client machine because the automounter uses /home to place the remote user home directories onto the local filesystem. Damian steve wrote:

Hi. I want users who have an account under /home on our server to be able to login from a client without having to have an account there.. At the moment the login names appear at the kdm prompt but I am having to mount their /home directories using NFS on every client they use :-(

What do the /etc/auto* files have to contain to achieve this? Could anyone doing the same help? Or maybe that's not what nis does? Thanks. Steve. SuSE 8.0 and 8.1

-- Damian O'Hara using: SuSE Linux 8.0 ITS, Motorola GIS email: daohara1@email.mot.com Swindon, UK phone: +44 (0)1793 565142 4:06pm up 14 days, 7:15, 15 users, load average: 0.26, 0.16, 0.11