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  • autofs unmout my /home drive

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    Hi

    I have different workstations each with its own /home drive and users on the machines.

    Workstation_1 with user_a
    Workstation_2 with user_b
    Workstation_3 with user_c
    ...
     
    On the Workstations I have the following set up, example Workstation_1
    In my /etc/fstab I have the flowing entry to bind /nfsexports/user_a with /home/user_a

    "/etc/fstab"
    /home/user_a               /nfs4exports/user_a   none    rw,bind 0   0

    The "/etc/exports" file looks like this.
    /nfs4exports        *(rw,nohide,sync,insecure,root_squash,no_subtree_check)
    /nfs4exports/user_a        *(rw,nohide,sync,insecure,root_squash,no_subtree_check)

    The "/etc/auto.master" file looks like this.
    /misc    /etc/auto.misc
    /net    /etc/auto.net.nfs4
    /home    /etc/users.master

    The "/etc/users.master" file looks like this.
    /usesr_b    -rw    Workstation_2:/nfs4exports/user_b
    /usesr_c    -rw    Workstation_3:/nfs4exports/user_c

    The "/etc/auto.net.nfs4" file looks like this.
    opts="-fstype=nfs4,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid,nosymlink"
    for P in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
    do
        for M in showmount kshowmount
        do
            if [ -x $P/$M ]
            then
                SMNT=$P/$M
                break
            fi
        done
    done

    [ -x $SMNT ] || exit 1
    SHOWMOUNT="$SMNT --no-headers -e $key"

    $SHOWMOUNT | LC_ALL=C sort -k 1 | \
        awk -v key="$key" -v opts="$opts" -- '
        BEGIN    { ORS=""; first=1 }
            { if (first) { print opts; first=0 }; print " \\\n\t" $1, key ":" $1 }
        END    { if (!first) print "\n"; else exit 1 }
        ' | sed 's/#/\\#/g'| sed -e 's,:/.[^\s]*,:/ ,'


    When I start autofs the /home drive gets umounted and user_a doesn't have a home directory which is under "/home/users_a". I would appreciate it if someone can tell me what have I done wrong?

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