Solaris Automount NFS with linux clients

Solaris Box:
0. /et/defaultdomain :: Put NIS domain name here

1. vi /etc/dfs/dfstab
share -F nfs -o rw /apps1
share -F nfs -o rw /home1
share -F nfs -o rw /data

2. vi /etc/auto_master
/apps1 auto_apps -nosuid,nobrowse

3. vi /etc/auto_apps
oracle -ro s2:/apps1/oracle
gf_admin -rw s2:/apps1/gf_admin

4. vi /var/yp/Makefile
Copy the section auto_home and auto.home and create corresponding auto_apps and auto.apps sections

5. make

6. *TO DO*: to prevent the NIS server from automounting its own directories and consecutively not seeing the contents of those - falsely automounted - directories I removed the "files nis" tags in front of automount in /etc/nssswitch.conf

Linux Box:
7. /etc/sysconfig/network :: put NISDOMAIN=$nisdomainname

8. /etc/yp.bind :: specify server and NIS Domain name