Hi, Are there any standard practices to follow for automounting from a LDAP server without using local files, for both the NFS server and the clients? The NFS clients part seems straightforward. However it is not clear how autofs mounts directories residing on the local filesystem on the NFS server.
For example if I have the following setup: 1. I export /export/home from the NFS server, nfs.example.com 2. The NFS server is also configured to use the LDAP server to get automount information, i.e, automount: ldap in /etc/nsswitch.conf 3. auto_home is setup on the LDAP server to spit out something equivalent to: * -rw,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid nfs.example.com:/export/home Will autofs on nfs.example.com recognize the local mount /export/home and use a loopback mount for /home? If so, do people recommend using the same approach (using a direct mount) for /var/spool/mail on nfs.example.com? If not, why not? Is there any way to disable specify exclude clauses in the mount options to autofs? For example, can I specify some option to autofs so that on a particular machine autofs will not use the automount entry from the directory server. Thanks, kitty. -- Krishnakumar B <kitty at dre dot vanderbilt dot edu> Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Dept. of EECS, Vanderbilt University _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
