NIS, automounting, Solaris and headaches

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 12:28:32 EDT
"Derek D. Martin" said:


>> The best I've been able to find now, to be fair, is a big 'ol
>> kludge.  The automounter uses /- as a base, then creates symlinks
>> to the locations that users expect the directories to be at.
>
>Er, I don't remember having to deal with anything like this...  Paul?
>
>> So, a map that looks like:
>> 
>> /nmr/people	-rw	foobar:/nmr/people
>
>What *IS* this?  Or more accurately I guess, *where* is it? 

My gut instinct tells me this is a 'direct map' which is Verbotten in 
LinuxLand :(  Linux's autofs has no support for direct maps.  You 
might be okay using a Linux client and a Solaris server this way, but 
it will definitely fail with an all-Linux environment.

If it's not a direct map, then I second Derek's inquiry :)

> I think you're missing a layer of abstraction, which may be part of your
>problem.  This looks like it wants to be a direct map, which at least
>when we were doing this, was not supported by linux.  The proper way
>is/was to define your mount point in auto.master, and specify a map to
>get the keys from that will go under that mount point.  Then list the
>keys that get mounted in that map file, followed by the options, and
>followed finally by the location to mount from.  This is what I did
>with auto.master and auto.home above.

Right.  What he said :)
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Paul
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