Re: Network Neighborhood (fwd)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Anders Melchiorsen wrote:
> 
> Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I don't understand the problem here... but are you guys
> > trying to get the Network neighborhood to show the linux boxes ??
> 
> No, we are trying to get the browse list into a virtual Linux
> directory, so we can say "ls /smb" and get a list of computers
> currently on the network.
> 
> Next, we want to say "ls /smb/win98" and get a list of shares of that
> computer.
> 

That you really can't do with autofs without some huge amounts of
modifications.  Browsability of automounts causes huge amounts of
problems, which is why autofs doesn't support it at this time, and
possibly never will.

        -hpa