On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 10:34 -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Fabian Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Hello!
> >
> > We are using autofs in order to mount the user's home drive via NFS after a
> > successfull login authenticated by ldap.
> >
> > /etc/auto.master looks like this:
> >
> > # AUOTOFS-MAPPING
> > /home/schueler  /etc/auto.schueler
> > /home/lehrer    /etc/auto.lehrer
> > /home/maerkte   /etc/auto.maerkte
> >
> > /etc/auto.schueler has the following content (the same also applies for the
> > other files):
> >
> > *       -fstype=nfs,rw,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid,exec,acl         
> > server.domain.de:/home/schueler/&
> >
> > Generally speaking this setup works like a charm but from time to time we
> > encounter the following messages in syslog:
> >
> > Sep 24 16:46:57 server mountd[8818]: authenticated mount request from
> > client.domain.de:559 for /home/schueler/.directory (/home/schueler)
> > Sep 24 16:46:57 server mountd[8818]: can't stat exported
> > dir /home/schueler/.directory: No such file or directory
> >
> > Our investigations show that these messages are probably to be created
> > whenever a user tries to access /home/schueler by using Konqueror or
> > Nautilus. The file .directory doesn't exist, however, and that's why these
> > messages appaer. Normalley, this wouldn't be a severe problem but the
> > entire is completely slowed down so that another kind of error occurs:
> >
> > Sep 24 16:47:00 server mountd[8818]: refused mount request from
> > client.domain.de for /home/schueler/.directory (/home/schueler): illegal
> > port 48337
> >
> > Does anybody know this issue and could provide any hints how to solve it?
> 
> Negative lookup caching will help this.  I'm not sure whether/when
> that went into the kernel.  Ian?

There was a report of the patch causing a kernel panic which I've still
not been able to duplicate. I need to return to this real soon.

Ian  


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