Dear Developer,
i am facing some problem in using YP maps for autofs. autofs recognises
the auto.master map, loads it and lists it properly. however, when i
try to mount a filesystem/directory from the same auto.master, it says
that there is no such map in server's domain. to make this description
more concrete, i am adding the details here:
1) directory /home/yphome is exported by a machine named clpc00.
2) auto.master map contains an entry for auto.home, which has the map
for mounting yphome. all filesystems listed in auto.home are mounted in
/nis - just trying to avoind /home which exists on all systems.
3) auto.home asks the system to mount clpc00:/home/yphome as yphome, so
it should be mounted at /nis/yphome. i have a softlink from
/home/yphome to /nis/yphome, as recommended in the autofs howto.
4) the error message in the /var/log/messages file is as follows:
Apr 30 11:45:29 clpc01 automount[265]: attempting to mount entry /nis/yphome
Apr 30 11:45:29 clpc01 automount[1402]: lookup(yp): looking up yphome
Apr 30 11:45:29 clpc01 automount[1402]: lookup(yp): lookup for yphome failed: No such
map in server's domain
5) the output of the command "/sbin/init.d/autofs status " is
Checking for service autofs: OK
Configured Mount Points:
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/usr/sbin/automount --timeout 60 /misc file /etc/auto.misc
/usr/sbin/automount --timeout 60 /nis yp /var/yp/maps/auto.home
Active Mount Points:
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/usr/sbin/automount --timeout 60 /misc file /etc/auto
/usr/sbin/automount --timeout 60 /nis yp /var/yp/maps
6) the output of "ypcat -k auto.home"
yphome -rw,hard,intr clpc00:/home/yphome
7) the output of "ypcat -k auto.master"
/nis /var/yp/maps/auto.home
8) i can mount the filesystem manually, as well as using a local autofs
map.
9) I am using SuSE linux 7.0 with kernel 2.2.16.
Please help.,
Jasjeet
