CentOS - Sep 2015 - automounter with users home directories on centos 7.

Has anyone gotten this to work? Im studing for my rhce and was trying to 
get this to work and its just not working like it shows in the book im 
going by.
So basically I have two centos 7 servers running under kvm.. One is the 
nfs server, one is the nfs client.. I have been mounting up other NFS 
shares on the client and they work fine.. The automounter also seems to 
mount direct mounts fine as well.. But when I try to do home 
directories, it just doesnt work..
on my server (named server1), Im exporting /home as
/home    server2(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

on my client, ive got
[root at server2 ~]# grep home /etc/auto.master
/home    /etc/auto.home --timeout=120
and
[root at server2 ~]# cat /etc/auto.home
*    -rw,soft,intr    server1:/home/&
[root at server2 ~]#

and on server1, ive got the selinux enabled, but have the following 
booleans set.
[root at server1 ~]# getsebool -a | grep nfs_
nfs_export_all_ro --> on
nfs_export_all_rw --> on
use_nfs_home_dirs --> on
[root at server1 ~]#

so when I try to switch to my user on server2 (client), I get
[root at server2 ~]# su - user1
Last login: Wed Sep  9 16:25:27 EDT 2015 on pts/0
su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/user1: No such file or 
directory
-bash-4.2$

and theres nothing in the logs that I can find as to why the automount  
isnt working..
[root at server2 ~]# showmount -e server1
Export list for server1:
/home     server2

I generated a log (on both server) with sealert, but it shows
found 0 alerts in /var/log/audit/audit.log

any ideas?


--
Jason

Not tried automount with Centos 7 nor with selinux.

With that said autofs relies on nfs mounting to work, so have you 
started there by attempting to manually mount /home?

Another place to look is at the hostname.  I've had problems where auto 
mount doesn't like the short name and insists on using a FQDN, to get 
around that you could try using the IP address rather than the hostname.

On 09/09/15 16:31, Jason Welsh wrote:
> showmount -e
-- 
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----- Original Message -----
| Not tried automount with Centos 7 nor with selinux.
| 
| With that said autofs relies on nfs mounting to work, so have you
| started there by attempting to manually mount /home?
| 
| Another place to look is at the hostname.  I've had problems where auto
| mount doesn't like the short name and insists on using a FQDN, to get
| around that you could try using the IP address rather than the hostname.
| 
| On 09/09/15 16:31, Jason Welsh wrote:
| > showmount -e
| 
| --
| If money can fix it, it's not a problem.
|   -- Click and Clack the Tappet brothers

/home is a directory by default on all GNU/Linux hosts.  If you plan to use it
as a mount point then you need to remove the directory and then start autofs
otherwise there will be a conflict.
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