hi,
sure, that works. but if you're living in a non-100% linux
environment you cannot use the direct maps distributed via
NIS(+)/ldap, which would be great.
i read in the TODO for v5 that there might be - there was
a question mark - direct maps? when would that be ?
thx,
~dirkw
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Stephen Walton wrote:
> Yes, the current version of autofs doesn't support direct mounts, and I
> seem to remember the developers saying that supporting them would be A
> Major Kludge Job (tm). I'm making do with a directory /auto managed by
> autofs and symbolic links. Specifically, my auto_master NIS map contains
> (among other things):
>
> auto /etc/auto.auto
>
> and each machine then has an /etc/auto.auto file containing lines like
>
> data machine:/data
>
> and finally, machine 'machine' contains a symlink /data -> /auto/data. A
> bit of a hack but works fine for me.
>
> --
> Stephen Walton, Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
> California State University, Northridge
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Oakham, Geoff wrote:
>
> > autofs is happily mounting most of the auto.master mounts, but it's missing
> > all of the `direct' mounts (stuff that's supposed go in / ). I can manually
> > mount them, but I've had no success with a manual automount.
>
