Hi,

just out of curiosity. In the example by alvin below, 
the file system is mounted 'rw' in the combination with 'soft'.

> 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

I heard is was a dangerous thing to do so, because if a connection dies while 
writing to a file on the remote system, this can possibly lead to a corrupted 
file system. Does anybody know more about this?

Thanx!

Hauke 
>
> 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
>

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