I had to go home and check the various ways I'm doing it there. Work is where I do it by the book. soft links are what I do there too. Mr E_T wrote: > 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? > > > I found a solution involving hidden directories and soft links - but im > still not quite happy with this approach. > > autfs.master > /home/user/.autofs /etc/autofs.user > > autofs.user > dir -tfstype=nfs,rw some.host:///home/user/dir > > ln -s .autofs/dir dir > > I don't like using soft links all the time - but it works > > I should just be able to use dir as both the autofs mount point and the > key mount point rather than hiding it > > regs Mr E_T
