How to Setup Automount for /home

This document explains how to configure Autofs to automount /home and /home/admins automatically on Linux servers. 

Document Creator  Todd Walters 

How to Configure Automounts using autofs 

1.  vi /etc/auto.home and add this line:  

* -(rw,sync,no_root_squash) 10.X.X.X:/home/& 

2. vi /etc/auto.master and add this link: 

/home   /etc/auto.home 

3. run chkconfig –list autofs and verify run levels 3, 4 & 5 are set to on. 

chkconfig --list autofs 

autofs          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off 

4. run service autofs start 

[root@serv01 ~]# service autofs start 

Starting automount:                                        [  OK  ] 

5. verify that home directories are mounting.  

cd /home/username to check or logout and then login to server as user and you should be in your home directory.