Re: autofs and mountpoint creation

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 01:08:33PM +0100, Roger Zimmermann wrote:
> Since autofs creates the mountpoint while acessing the filesystem there
> is no chance to access the filesystem via the Mac (All fixmounted
> systems work, of course). Until now, it was possible to force at least

This isn't possible in general, since the autofs daemon doesn't know
what mountpoints will work (eg, in the case of program mounts).

I generaly fake this with a directory of symlinks. For example,
/net is an automount NFS directory, and /n is a set of symlinks to ../net
(/n/host -> ../net/host).

        J