Auitomounter and NIS on Linux

I have had significant difficulties getting my RedHat linux clients(EL 3.0) to automount home directories that are specified in NIS maps in a NIS domain to which the client belongs. Let me describe the situation more clearly: My client, node1 is a NFS client of NFS server, nfs1, and a NIS client of machine, nis1.

One node1: Inetc-hosts there are ip records of both nis1 and nfs1.

Inetc-auto.master:home yp:auto.home

Inetc-auto.home: +auto.home

Inetc-nsswitch.conf: automount: file nis

Also on node1: ypcat -k auto.home yeilds the entire content of the NIS auto.home map.All the NIS maps are visible on the client node1.e.g.

ypcat -k auto.home testuser nfs1:-export-home-testuser

and mounting: mount -t nfs nfs1:-export-home-testusermnt works well, so it apperas NFS works well.

However, if I "cdhome-testuser" on the client i get an error stating the directory does not exist.

Can anyone tell me how to get NIS, autofs and NFS working well together

so that I can specify the NFS mounts via the NIS maps to my client machines so that autofs works like if I had specified the NFS mounts via the localetc-auto.home file? All machines are running RedHat ENterprise Linux 3.

thanks in advance. Larry