Thanks to following people for their responses which are included below.

The solution I ended up taking was that of renaming the /etc/auto_master file so the automounter does not automount /home...

Other responses are as follows:

eamonn.mcgonigle@compapp.dcu.ie writes

Did you remember to take /home out of the automounter master file

/etc/auto_master ?

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Gary White <whiteg@panther.acc1912.af.mil> writes

A work around may be to put the mount command in a file in /etc/rc3.d directory

to be completed after all the other initialization files. Name it somthing like

S25mounthome. I'm sure your familiar with these files but if not I can offer

more info.

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syd@dsinc.myxa.com (Syd Weinstein) writes

2.3 turns on the automounter for /home. Perhaps you need to disable

that entry or the entire automounter in the startup scripts in 2.3.

we did.

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han@trdlnk.chi.il.us (Han Tunca) writes

I had the same problem on a test system that I'm setting up. One of the local

rc dirs in /etc contains a little program that starts up automounter. When

I commented that out (actually moved the file from SXXxxx to .SXXxxx) the

problem went away.

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Mateen Fikree <mfikree@sunspot.acs.syr.edu> writes

        Check to see whether the automounter is running. By default

the automounter gets started up under Solaris 2.x. The automounter

will by default be trying to mount /export/home onto /home, hence you

have to do the overlay mount. Under 2.3 the automounter is started

from the script located in /etc/init.d and is called autofs. I would

comment out the part that starts the automounter and reboot the

machine and it should work fine.

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eckhard@ts.go.dlr.de (Eckhard Rueggeberg) writes

Sorry, but why on earth do you want to overlay mount an existing partition

at boot time ? This shows you don't need the existing partition at all,

so you don't have to mount it in the first place !

I'd always automount /home, even if you use it all the time, and with 2.3,

I'd use a cachefs,backfs=nfs mount.

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 Casper Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl> writes

It's the automounter that gets in the way.

Remove /etc/rc2.d/S73autofs and reboot. (This will prevent

the automounter from getting started.)

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Once again thanks to all that responded..

Kind Regards

Andrew Scarman

> >Another problem Sun has not being able to help me with as yet.

> >

> >Since upgrading my SC2000 to Solaris 2.3 from 2.2 I no longer cannot NFS mount my /home partition

> from my 690 server running 4.1.3.All worked fine under 2.2 with an entry in the vfstab file.

> >But under 2.3 it fails to mount.I can mount it after the system has come up with the following com

> mand

> >#mount -O gaea:/home /home

> >

> >the -O option is to allow an overlay mount mount of an existing partition.The problem is that I ca

> nnot find an equivalant option to put in the /etc/vfstab file so it mount this file system at boot

> time.