Jon Biddell wrote:
> On Xena, the workstation, I have a directory "/slave". When I'm logged in, I
> manually map this to slave:/home/jon.
>
> I need to be able to do three things;
>
> 1. Map this directory dependant on the logged-in user (i.e. if Jill is logged
> in, it's slave:/home/jill).
>
> 2. In the event that slave is either down or non-contactable, I need it to
> not to return an error - or an error that the user cannot see)
Yes.
Read man automount and go from there.
> 3. I need this to be automagic for any/all created users.
Somewhat harder. You will need to automagically add entries to
the automount map file.
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