On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Rigler, Steve wrote:
> >
> > Ian Kent wrote:
> >
> > >The autofs4-2.4 module build kit or the patches contained in
> > it or the
> > >patches contained in autofs-4.1.0-beta3 can give you this
> > for some of the
> > >maps. NIS, LDAP and file maps work at the moment.
> > >
> > >I's in the expected place on kernel.org.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > not sure what you mean by file maps, but I'm trying to mount
> > samba and
> > nfs shares so i guess I'm out of luck...
> >
>
> In order to view the mountpoints before they are mounted you need
> to have the newer version of the kernel module which is available
> at kernel.org.
>
> The maps aren't really specific to the type of filesystem you are
> trying to mount. You can get your maps from a local file, NIS, LDAP,
> etc. They can contain information to mount smb, nfs, or even local
> filesystems.
>
> If you install the newer kernel module, you can make your mountpoints
> visisible with the ghosting option. One way to enable this is to
> set it in your /etc/auto.master like:
>
> /somedir file:/etc/auto.somedir -g
I've had some trouble lately with using the -g.
If this is a problem use the long option --ghost, that seemed to work OK.
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