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Simon Oosthoek wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:21:25AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
>
>>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
No, this seems to not work ... but maybe the authors could be convinced
to add support for this?
>
> whereas indirect mounts list a relative path:
>
> auto master:
> /home auto.home -nosuid
>
> auto.home:
> simon -rw servera:/home/simon
> * -rw serverb:/local/home/&
Hmm, I don't like having a mount per-user, but maybe that's just me, and
maybe security through obscurity is of some value ;-).
>
> all entries in auto.home mount under /home (defined in auto.master)
>
> Does that help?
Yes, I see the value ... but I don't see that I would ever need it ...
>
> 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)
What we do here is mount our shares under /cae (instead of /home, since
I want access to files on the small local /home directories, and it
seems you can't have a /home map and access files on the real /home ...)
and link the directories (users,groups,projects) in /home to the real
ones in /cae. The only problem is some programs follow the link, so they
use /cae/users/bgmilne when I want them to use /home/users/bgmilne. But
at least this way, /home/{users,groups,projects} (that we had mounted
with fstab entries before using autofs) appear all the time, the users
don't notice they aren't mounted most of the time.
Regards,
Buchan
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