> "Kim C. Callis" wrote:
>
> I have been attempting to have Linux mount home directories from my
> fileserver. I am using SuSE Linux 7.1 and the FS is running FreeBSD 4.1
> CURRENT
>
> On the BSD box, I have a /etc/exports that looks like this
>
> /home -alldirs -network 192.168.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
>
> The BSD box does in fact export the directories. But it gets a little
> wierd when it gets to the Linux box. My auto.home on the Linux box
> looks like this:
>
> /home -soft,rw lcars:/home
>
> I fire up the autofs and nothing... Now, when I manually force a mount
> then everything seems to work somewhat ok. For whatever reason, /home
> doesn't mount at /home but /export/home. But if I don't manually mount
> the directory, then I get nothing. Although there is in fact something
> mounted at /export/home (this is shown when I do a mount command to see
> what is mounted. Also on the BSD box, showmount says that it is
> exporting to the linux box.), when I do an ls, nothing shows up.
>
> I am not using NIS, and I have run out of ideas. Does anyone have a
> suggestion of what might be wrong?
>
"Linux autofs does not support direct mounts."
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