Fabian Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello!
>
> We are using autofs in order to mount the user's home drive via NFS after a
> successfull login authenticated by ldap.
>
> /etc/auto.master looks like this:
>
> # AUOTOFS-MAPPING
> /home/schueler  /etc/auto.schueler
> /home/lehrer    /etc/auto.lehrer
> /home/maerkte   /etc/auto.maerkte
>
> /etc/auto.schueler has the following content (the same also applies for the
> other files):
>
> *       -fstype=nfs,rw,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid,exec,acl         
> server.domain.de:/home/schueler/&
>
> Generally speaking this setup works like a charm but from time to time we
> encounter the following messages in syslog:
>
> Sep 24 16:46:57 server mountd[8818]: authenticated mount request from
> client.domain.de:559 for /home/schueler/.directory (/home/schueler)
> Sep 24 16:46:57 server mountd[8818]: can't stat exported
> dir /home/schueler/.directory: No such file or directory
>
> Our investigations show that these messages are probably to be created
> whenever a user tries to access /home/schueler by using Konqueror or
> Nautilus. The file .directory doesn't exist, however, and that's why these
> messages appaer. Normalley, this wouldn't be a severe problem but the
> entire is completely slowed down so that another kind of error occurs:
>
> Sep 24 16:47:00 server mountd[8818]: refused mount request from
> client.domain.de for /home/schueler/.directory (/home/schueler): illegal
> port 48337
>
> Does anybody know this issue and could provide any hints how to solve it?

Negative lookup caching will help this.  I'm not sure whether/when
that went into the kernel.  Ian?

-Jeff

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