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On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 8:03 pm, Stalker, Doug wrote:
> The Solaris automounter implements a /net directory which will
> automatically mount the entire tree from an NFS server. (i.e.: accessing
> /net/hostname automatically mounts hostname:/ on /net/hostname)
>
> Is there any way to get the same funcionality using linux? I've been
> playing around with autofs, but so far havn't had any success.
We used to do this back in the UK many moons ago (1994) using the AMD (BSD)
automounter on a variety of systems. It would appear that the AMD
automounter has been supersceded by the am-utils package available from:
http://www.am-utils.org/
and this section of the manual appears to show just what you'd like:
http://www.am-utils.org/am-utils_10.html#SEC93
NB: I've not tried this myself!
Chris
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