hi all...
think my fat fingers sent a prev email before my comments...
my apologies...
> > for autofs.... I kludged it to do /net/hostname...works fine...
> > diff /Net/server1/etc/passwd /Net/home1/etc/passwd
> > ls -l /Net/*/etc/group
> >
> > diff /.autofs/server1/etc/passwd /.autofs/home1/etc/passwd
> >
> > if you have 5 machines or 500.... I'm fairly sure this schem will still
> > work.... just need a way to distribute the files to the 500 machines
> > and each one has to have a minimum level of tweeks ( autofs_fix.pl for example )
> >
>
> snip ...
>
> Thanks, that was the kind of thing I was doing before I upgraded to
> RH6.0 and therefore knfsd. I was basically doing a Sun style /net but
> listing every host I wanted explicitly.
> e.g.
>
> nyquist -posix,soft,intr,nosuid,nodev nyquist.ecs.soton.ac.uk:/
>
> This used to give me access to /net/nyquist/etc/* etc and
> /net/nyquist/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/* for example. But now, because knfsd
> no longer gives me access to /net/nyquist/usr (because it doesn't
> export mounted partitions when the directory they are mounted on has
> been exported from a higher level directory), I can't access
> /net/nyquist/usr/src/redhat/RPMS anymore.
I wonder if your /usr problem is the same as my importing /home problem
from a rh-6.0 machine
ls -la /Net/server/home/user fails
ls -la /home/user works - where home is an autofs imported directory
and yes... I have server:/ exported readonly too any machine...
server:/home exported read/write
I got around some of that by changing my symlinks.... for my /Net/<server>
symlinks....which links back to /.autofs
ln -s /.autofs/server /Net/server
ln -s /.autofs/home /home works
ln -s /.autofs/server/home /home fails when "ls -l /home...
> I have nearly managed to get round it by doing the submounting thing I
> mentioned earlier (specifying the host explicitly) but this only gives
> me access to partitions etc. mounted off the root directory. So I
> still can't access /net/nyquist/mnt/cdrom/* for example.
>
> If I could automount nyquist:/ /net/nyquist/ and then mount
> nyquist:/usr onto /net/nyquist/usr I would be happy but then this is a
> direct mount isn't it. Hence, my original question.
>
>
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