On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:21:25AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bryan Whitehead wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the kick in the pants. Looks like autofs can do what I need. > > Looks like this "feature" slipped in during 9.0 (or 8.2) and I didn't > > notice. > > > > Now if only autofs would support direct mounts we'd be another step > > closer to Solaris... ;) > > Could you explain what it is/how it works? >
direct mounts are denoted in auto.master like: /- auto.direct <options> and /etc/auto.direct contains the absolute path and mount that belongs to it like: /home <mount options> server:/local/home whereas indirect mounts list a relative path: auto master: /home auto.home -nosuid auto.home: simon -rw servera:/home/simon * -rw serverb:/local/home/& all entries in auto.home mount under /home (defined in auto.master) Does that help? Actually, I'm rather interested in autofs, because we have a mixed Solaris/Mandrake environment with NIS/NFS. I tried autofs tables via NIS, which worked well, except that a typical user tried to access a shared directory under /home which was suddenly "gone"/invisible... I don't know how to solve this yet (I want users to see all available mounts under /home) Cheers Simon
