I haven't been following this thread closely but awhile ago I brought this issue up.
I'm in a heterogeneous environment: AIX, HPUX, Linux, Solaris. With autofs3 on RedHat 7.1 users' home directories were automounted but I couldn't get /net to work. So, I switched to autofs4 and then /net worked but users' home directories aren't automounted. I find I have to "./autofs restart" to automount users' home directories. If anyone has run into this and found out why I'd appreciate a reply. I can live with the solution I have now but it's kinda like a splinter in my mind. Maybe the start script in rc3.d is occurring too soon? It's S18... (I also find that I can't /net to HPUX boxes, but AIX, other Linux boxes and Solaris boxes are fine). Cheers Jason At 10:19 AM 10/25/2001 -0700, Ogden, Aaron A. wrote: >That was our original reasoning for using v4, we wanted to get /net working >the way it does in Solaris. Do you know of any how-tos to get that working, >we tried to set that up but we were unsuccessful. Maybe the problem is that >we needed to have autofs v4 userspace tools to make that happen. > >Thanks for the advice, I will talk to the rest of my team and decide on a >course of action to fix this. >Any idea when autofs v4 will go gold? :-) > >--aaron > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: H. Peter Anvin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 12:14 PM > > To: Ogden, Aaron A. > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Schulte, Rick; Waybright, Robert C. > > Subject: Re: autofs interoperability problems between linux and > > solaris > > > > Ogden, Aaron A. wrote: > > > > > Hmmmmm... I have to agree with you, the combination we are using seems > > > broken to me. :-) > > > So which do you think is most likely to work properly, autofs v3 or v4? > > I > > > looked around at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs and the > > > latest version I could find was autofs-4.0.0pre10. Is that stable > > enough to > > > use, or do you think it would be better to stick with autofs v3 for now? > > I > > > can go either way. > > > > > > > > > autofs v3 has been beaten on for a very, very, very long time and is > > likely to be the most stable configuration. autofs v4 seems mostly > > stable; use it if you have a need or desire for the v4 additional > > features, such as /net mounts. > > > > -hpa > >
