NIS, automounting, Solaris and headaches

[Derek D. Martin]

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At some point hitherto, Mark Komarinski hath spake thusly:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 12:28:32PM -0400, Derek D. Martin wrote:
>  
> A few more questions.  I'm getting closer to something that may work.
> 
> > We did this at MCL.  I'm a bit fuzzy about the details, so Paul may be
> > able to fill in where I fumble.  Also, our configuration was a bit
> > more wierd than yours is likely to be.  We had multiple shares where
> > people's home directories could come from.  IIRC:
> > 
> > - -=-=-=-=-
> > # auto.master
> > /homes		yp:auto.home
>  
> Is this the contents of /etc/auto.master, or a YP map?

IIRC, it doesn't matter, so long as your hosts are looking for maps in YP.
I'm not 100% certain in the case of auto.master, but I think it could
be either.

Depending on the autofs scripts you have though, you may have to
remove /etc/auto.master for it to work properly, or hack the script.
I remember having a discussion about this on the autofs mailing
list...  Older versions of the autofs script (i.e. /etc/init.d/autofs)
would ignore NIS if you had local map files, regardless of what's in
/etc/nsswitch.conf.  I believe this was fixed in more recent versions
of autofs, but I don't know for sure.  I haven't used it since RH 6.2
days...

P.S. I *am* still unemployed and available for contracting...  ;-)

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