need help with automounter on RS/6000

[Russell A. Heise]

 guest at albert.ai.mit.edu (Guest Account) writes:

 > I have set up TCP/IP and NFS and YP with SMIT, but there wasn't much
 > support for the automounter, just two menu options, start and stop,
 > for the automounter.  Since 'start' didn't work I have tried the following
 > things to fix it:
 >
 > Added auto.master to YP.  "auto.master" contains "/net -hosts intr,nosuid"
 >
 > Ran "newkey -u root" and "newkey -h chocolate" to generate publickey.byname
 > entries.
 >
 > Ran keyserv -n to generate /etc/.rootkey.
 >
 > Added /etc/site and YP'd it into site.byname.  This is just an empty file,
 > on our master YP server, does anyone know what goes in it?
 >
 > Anyway the error message I am now getting  when I try "automount /net -hosts"
 > is "Authentication error ... not owner" or something to the effect that
 > secure RPC is failing.

 It is difficult to offer specific recommendations based on vague reports
 of the error message you get.  However, I can offer some suggestions:
  1) Check the format and contents of your "auto.master" file against the
     recommendations in InfoExplorer.  In particular, notice that
     auto.master consists of lines in the format:

        directory_path       automount_map_name

     This file, then, points to other maps (files).
  2) Make sure that you have added the two auto.master stanzas in
     /etc/yp/Makefile.
  3) cd to /etc/yp and run 'make' to update all the maps.
  4) On each server, confirm that you have the '-secure' option on each
     entry in /etc/exports.
  5) On each client that wants to mount one of the secure filesystems,
     make sure that the corresponding stanza in /etc/filesystems has the
     '-secure' option.
  6) A general tip:  never use 'kill -9 PID' on the automounter deamon.
     Just use 'kill PID' to stop it.

Russ Heise, AIX Technical Support, IBM