>I think I am missing something here.
>
>If the system is changed to have a local filesystem mounted as /home,
>then the automounter can't also use that point to mount /home/otherpeople,
>right?

Correct.

>If so, when I move my client laptop from home to work (where home implies
>no NIS/NFS and work implies the opposite), then I'm stuck, right?
>I'd have to move the filesystem mount from /home to /export/home,
>change my auto_home map and update nsswitch.conf.

Or just not have the /home data visible (depending on whether it's
a separate filesystem or not)

>Contrast that to today, where I mount the local filesystem on /export/home,
>set up nsswitch.conf to use  "files", add an entry to auto_home for ~plocher,
>and, when I drop by the office, I simply change nsswitch.conf, change the
>entry to "files NIS", and run ypinit....

Yup.

Casper
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