automount on debian help

Kenny Donahue kennyd at mc.com
Fri Mar 18 14:08:00 EST 2005


Derek Martin wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:15:24PM -0500, Kenny Donahue wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>I just switched from RH 7.2 to the latest debian.
>>Everything seems to be fine except that I can't seem to
>>automount to the Solaris exported directories on our network.
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>So you're probably using autofs and NIS, right?
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ummmm.....ok...

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>>Google searches have been useless. Tons of hits, zero content.  I
>>have access to a machine with working automount so if I had a list
>>of files that need to be changed, I could figure it out from there.
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>First, look at /etc/nsswitch.conf and check the entry for automount.
>If you're using NIS, you'll probably have to insert nis at the
>beginning of the line.  Of course, your system will need to be an NIS
>client...
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I have files nisplus nis for automount

>If you're relying on files, you'll need to copy /etc/auto.* from a
>working machine.  It's been a long while since I supported autofs and
>NIS, but I think that'll do it.
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That's what I did I even copied his /etc/nsswitch.conf.
 No good.

Thanks,
Kenny




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