Installation of the automounter (autofs): In order for this to work, you need to have nfsd (/etc/init.d/nfs) running and have all disks which you would like to automount to other systems exported properly in /etc/exports . rpm -Uvh autofs-*.rpm In /etc/auto.master, add /misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=600 -intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=20,retrans=5 /home1 /etc/auto.home1 --timeout=600 -intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=20,retrans=5 /home2 /etc/auto.home2 --timeout=600 -intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=20,retrans=5 /home3 /etc/auto.home3 --timeout=600 -intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=20,retrans=5 /home4 /etc/auto.home4 --timeout=600 -intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=20,retrans=5 /home5 /etc/auto.home5 --timeout=600 -intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=20,retrans=5 The flags and arguments are to improve nfs performance. In /etc/auto.misc, add cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom local ouhep1:/usr/local home ouhep1:/home scratch ouhep0:/scratch raid ouhep0:/raid This will mount /usr/local/, ..., which is physically located on ouhep1, and serves the entire cluster, as /misc/local on all other machines, when they request it. You then need a soft link on all nodes (except on the server node, where the directory already exists): ln -s /misc/local /usr/local ln -s /misc/home /home ln -s /misc/scratch /scratch ln -s /misc/raid /raid In /etc/auto.home[1-5], add * &:/myhome[1-5] ^ ^ ^ | | | hostname key repeat mount point hostname key on This assumes that all machines have local disks called /myhome[1-5], and can be seen by all other machines as /home[1-5]// Then all you have to do is start autofs: /etc/init.d/autofs start and it will create all required mount points (/misc, /home[1-5]) for you and will allow you to access /home[1-5]/ from any machine, which will automount :/myhome[1-5] for as long as it is being accessed, and then unmount is again after it has been unused for more than 60 s (the timeout).