Civileme, I understand Mandrake's point of view and am willing to live with it from a 'stand-alone' perspective.
However, I have to use NIS to communicate with our network servers and my understanding (which is far from extensive :-)) is that I have to install autofs, tweak auto.master, etc. How should such users deal with the autofs problem? Terry Smith Woods Hole, MA civileme wrote: > > On Saturday 24 November 2001 07:22 am, robin wrote: > > After installing Mandrake 8.1, I noticed that autofs had not been > > installed - somewhat to my surprise, since Mandrake usually installs and > > configures this by default. > > Ummm no, we use supermount because autofs doesn't play nice with some other > things. > > I've now installed it and it shows up as in > > DrakConf and lsmod, but am having problems with configuration. At > > present, the relevant line in my /etc/auto.master file is > > > > floppy /etc/auto.misc timeout=60 > > > > and in /etc/auto.misc I have > > > > floppy -fstype=auto :/dev/fd0 > > > > Presumably something is seriously wrong here, since the thing isn't > > mounting. Manual mounting works fine (though clicking the floppy icon > > takes me not to /mnt/floppy but to some name search site!). > > > > Do NOT use autofs. Make yourself some regular desktop icons for CD and > floppy and click to mount, right-click to unmount or eject. We shipped with > supermount disabled by default for a reason. Despite our rewrite, the thing > doesn't wprk as it should with kernel 2.4 versions. This is a continuation > of problems encountered in 8.0 only more severe. > > For the whole story search on FAQ and on autofs on www.mandrakeforum.com > > Civileme > QA Team > > > I have a pretty standard Mandrake setup, so if someone could send me the > > relevant configuration files, they'd probably work on my box. Unless I > > have to recompile the kernel ..... :-( > > > > Thanks, > > > > Robin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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