hi E_T...
and if you need more documents to review....
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html
since oyu can mount your other (home) machine onto your local target
...it makes configuring/testing debugging your setup easier..
- since manually...it works...
thanx
alvin
please post your /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.misc if you need
more feedback...
-- bruce's entry below assumes /home be defined in auto.master
( hint to E_T....change /misc to /home in /etc/auto.master )
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
> I'm not sure I entirely understand what you're shooting for but a snip from my
> auto.homes looks like this:
>
> myname -rw,soft,intr homeserv:/big1/home1/myname
> yourname -rw,soft,intr homeserv:/big1/home2/yourname
>
> and results in mounts that looks like this:
>
> /homes/myname
> /homes/yourname
>
> Is this what you're looking for?
>
> P.S.
>
> the NIS version (ypcat) of auto.homes doesn't have the first field... Just the
> mont options and the source server export.
>
> Mr E_T wrote:
>
> > if I use your methodology I would mount the nfs dir to /home/user/dir
> > and end up with /home/user/dir/dir
> > I do not want the second dir
> >
> > As I understand it the /home/user/dir is the mount point for autofs and
> > then a key dir is specified - dir but this places too many subdirs in the
> > chain.
> >
> > I would like the mount point /home/user/dir to also be the key
> >
> > as in the nfs dir would be mounted to /home/user/dir as well as the autofs
> > dir
> >
> > so that my key file would look somthing like -
> > . -fstype=nfs,rw some.host://home/user/dir
> >
> > some.host is on another machine
> >
> > currently I mount is as
> > mount -t nfs some.host:/home/user/dir /home/user/dir
> >
> > regs MR_ET
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >
> > > Mr E_T wrote:
> > > >
> > > > is it posible to have the mount point and key to be the same directory
> > > >
> > > > I wish to mount 1 directory onto a single mount point and use the same
> > > > mount point as the key
> > > >
> > > > eg -
> > > > I wish to mount some.puter:/home/user/dir as /home/user/dir
> > > >
> > > > but if I specify /home/user as the mount point the entire directory is
> > > > hidden and if /home/user/dir is specified then I get an extra redirection
> > > > which upsets configured programs.
> > > >
> > > > hence I wish to mount a sporadic directory to a fixed point.
> > > >
> > > > Is this possible using autofs?
> > > >
> > >
> > > I am not sure what you're talking about, but I suspect what you want is
> > > bind mounts which are supported with 2.4 kernels, mount 2.10o and autofs
> > > 3.1.7.
> > >
>
