This is a very high level revision of my previous post on autofs which outlines only the process to automount a home directory via NFS. Edit: /etc/auto.master Add: /home /etc/auto.home Edit: /etc/auto.home Add: * nfs.example.com:/home/& Once you are at this point you should be able to login and test.

Lets first start off clarifying that this “How To” was done on CentOS based servers. In this example we will use the following two hosts: NISDOM-1: This will be this NIS Domain controller, and NFS mount point APPSERV-1: This server will be our “application server” Please note these hostnames, and examples are for tutorial purposes only. Your hostnames may differ. With that said lets get started. First we will install the appropriate packages for our NISDOM-1 server(NIS and NFS): yum -y install ypbind ypserv nfs-utils Once this has finished, you will need to make sure that all...