How to Mount a User's Home Directory

For information on automounting a home directory, see “Autofs Administration Task Overview” in System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services.

1. Make sure that the user's home directory is shared.

   For more information, see How to Share a User's Home Directory.

2. Log in as superuser on the user's system.

3. Edit the /etc/vfstab file and create an entry for the user's home directory.

   system-name:/export/home/user-name - /export/home/user-name nfs - yes rw

   system-name	The name of the system where the home directory is located.
   /export/home/user-name	The name of the user's home directory that will be shared. By convention, /export/homeuser-name contains user's home directories. However, this could be a different file system.
   -	Required placeholders in the entry.
   /export/home/user-name	The name of the directory where the user's home directory will be mounted.

   For more information about adding an entry to the /etc/vfstab file, see Chapter 39, Mounting and Unmounting File Systems (Tasks).

4. Create the mount point for the user's home directory.

   # mkdir -p /export/home/user-name

5. Mount the user's home directory.

   # mountall

   All entries in the current vfstab file (whose mount at boot fields are set to yes) are mounted.

6. Verify that the home directory is mounted.

   # mount | grep user-name

Example—Mounting a User's Home Directory

# vi /etc/vfstab
 
(The line  venus:/export/home/ripley - /export/home/ripley
nfs - yes rw is added.)
# mkdir -p /export/home/ripley
# mountall
# mount
/ on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 read/write/setuid/intr/largefiles/onerror=panic/dev=2200000 ...
/proc on /proc read/write/setuid/dev=3840000 on Wed Feb 28 09:49:07 2001
/dev/fd on fd read/write/setuid/dev=3900000 on Wed Feb 28 09:49:10 2001
/etc/mnttab on mnttab read/write/setuid/dev=3a00000 on Wed Feb 28 09:49:12 2001
/var/run on swap read/write/setuid/dev=1 on Wed Feb 28 09:49:12 2001
/tmp on swap read/write/setuid/dev=2 on Wed Feb 28 09:49:15 2001
/export/home on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 read/write/setuid/intr/largefiles/onerror=panic/dev= ...
/export/home/ripley on venus:/export/home/ripley remote/read/write/setuid/dev=3a8001e ...