Normal automount behavior or not?

Linux and Unix-Like Red Hat
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I'm trying to setup automount on a redhat system and it's behaving differently than on the AIX systems I have it configured on. Here's what I'm seeing on the Redhat system:

# mount | grep home
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvhome on /home type ext3 (rw)

# ls /home
user1
user2
user3

# service autofs start
# ls /home
user1

# mount | grep home
NFSserver:/home/user1 on /home/user1 type nfs (rw,addr=10.1.1..1)

So the /home filesystem is unmounted and /home/user1 is mounted instead.
On the AIX system it doesn't mount /home/user1 in place on /home it mounts it in addition to /home, like so:

# mount | grep home
/dev/hd1     /home    jfs2  Jun 01 10:51  rw,log=/dev/hd8
NFSserver  /home/user1  /home/user1  nfsv3  Jul25 15:03  rw,soft,intr

Here's my /etc/auto.master on Redhat:
/home /etc/auto.home

And auto.home
user1 -fstype=nfs NFSserver:/home/user1

I hope this isn't too confusing. Do I have auto.home wrong?

TIA

2

It looks OK but I am not somewhere where I can actually check it out. Try the following in auto.home and see if there is a difference:

*    -fstype=nfs   NFSserver:/home/&
3

Thanks for the suggestion but changing auto.home and restarting autofs gives the same results.

4

Are you using NIS or LDAP for your automount?

5

Just normal local authentication. The NFSserver is an AIX system if that makes any difference.

6

Thought I'd update how I got this working the way I wanted.

# cat /etc/auto.master
/-  /etc/auto.home

# cat /etc/auto.home
/home/user1  -fstype=nfs,nfsvers=3,intr,-timeout=60 NFSHost:/home/user1