> Hello,
> >> Local: /level1/level2/home/username > Server: /prefix/homestore_[:a-z:]/username
Tried this, but did not quite succeed. The problem is that this would require entries for every single user. But the following auto.home then worked for me:> This means when I want to mount my own home I have to mount > server:/prefix/homestore_d/dheinric to /level1/level2/home/dheinric. I > guess there's no other way than using a program map, but there's not > much documentation/examples about this in the package. Can > someone sched > some light on this, please.
You can create an auto.home map on the server which has all the pathnames and mount points. For example, your auto_master would say:
/level1/level2/home auto_home
and then your auto_home map would have entries like:
dheinric server:/prefix/homestore_d/&
#!/bin/bash
FIRST_LETTER=`echo $1|cut -c 1`
echo server:/prefix/homestore_${FIRST_LETTER}/$1This returns the correct path.
In auto_master they have a line "/level1 auto_level1", then in auto_level1, there is "level2 -fstype=autofs auto_level2", this is what I mean with cascading. Meanwhile, I found another Linux box here which does the same, but the syntax is different: "level2 -fstype=autofs file:/full/path/to/map"This would result in the client automounting /level1/level2/home/dheinric from server:/prefix/homestore_d/dheinric when you cd'd into the directory.
> I've also looked onto our Solaris machines. They seem to cascade the
> maps, which I guess is not possible on linux, right?
I'm not sure what you mean by cascade, but their is a syntax I've seen referred to as 'multimount' where you have multiple subdirectories undr a single mount point, each seperated by a "\" continuation character. These exist on HP-UX and Solaris. The newest autofs does support this, I'm using the autofs-4.1 beta with these type of maps and it's working fine.
Bye...
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