hi christoph
please asend me your /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.* that
auto.master refers to and/or your rc.autofs ??
- guess i can try to run a tests on my slackware-8.x boxes
also please send/excerpts of the remote_machines /etc/hosts file
slackware-8.x uses a different autofs startup script than
redhat, debian, etc..etc...
- graph the example rc.autofs from
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/AutoFS
- sh -x /etc/rc.d/rc.autofs might help to see where its dying
- tweek it till it works ...
automounter is running as listed under "ps auxw"
thanx
alvin
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/AutoFS/autofs.html
Some quick excerpts ( for a couple of machines on the LAN ...
remote_server1:/etc/exports
/home/christoph 192.168.1.1(rw)
remote_serverTWO:/etc/exports
/home/somebodyElse 192.168.1.1(ro)
On the machine you are sitting at that imports /net/server1
See if manually mounting works... it it does...autofs will
work too
local# mount remote_server1:/home/christoph /mnt/server1
local# mount remote_serverTWO:/home/somebodyElse /mnt/server2
local# df
------------------
local:/etc/auto.master
/.autofs /etc/auto.servers --timeout=60
local:/etc/auto.servers
server1 -fstype=nfs,soft,intr 192.168.1.2:/home/christoph
server2 -fstype=nfs,soft,intr 192.168.1.3:/home/SomebodyElse
-- restart autofs and check for errors in /var/log/* ...
local# mkdir /net ; cd /net
local# ln -s /.autofs/server1 .
local# ln -s /.autofs/serverTwo .
local# ls -la /net/server1/ - listing of cristoph's home dir
local# ls -la /net/serverTwo/ - listing of SomebodyElse's home dir
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Christoph Bugel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed many mails about /net already, but I can't get it to work
> yet.. Basically all I want (for starters) is to mount any random
> NFS server, I don't really care about permissions / NIS, etc. First
> I tried the autofs-3.1.7 that came with my distro, and things like
> /auto/cdrom or /auto/some-wellknown-nfsserver worked fine, but /net
> - like functionality didn't.
>
> I am running linux-2.4.16-pre1, and I just installed
> autofs-4.0.0-pre10. quite up to date I would say :). I have
> Slackware 8.0, so /autofs script complains about wrong distro, etc.
>
> My question is, basically, is this type of functionality supposed to
> work, or is it still quite experimental? Also, if the autofs script
> is redhat/debian specific, can I run some automount commandline
> manually to accomplish the same?
>
> Thanks for any hints,
> Christoph
>
