Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-19 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:34:28PM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote: > Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ...which is precisely what I wanted to know! He seemed unsure which > > he was running... The command I gave was tailor-made to determine > > that, and revealed that he was running auto

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Paul Lussier
Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ...which is precisely what I wanted to know! He seemed unsure which > he was running... The command I gave was tailor-made to determine > that, and revealed that he was running autofs, but not amd. > > There's no point in looking at amd stuff, if he's n

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:27:58PM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote: > Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is the output of the following command on both > > boxes? > > > > ls /etc/rc.d/rc3.d |egrep "autofs|amd" > > Hmm, personally I would have just done: > > ls /etc/init.d/a*

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Paul Lussier
Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the output of the following command on both > boxes? > > ls /etc/rc.d/rc3.d |egrep "autofs|amd" Hmm, personally I would have just done: ls /etc/init.d/a* especially since an ls of /etc/rc3.d is likely to reveal only a bunch of symlinks

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Paul Lussier
"Michael ODonnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you have NIS installed you should (by convention) be > able to say: > >ypcat auto.master > > ...to see which maps are available for your use. Actually, the better way is 'ypwhich -m' I believe, as there may be maps not in auto.master, or aut

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Kenny Donahue
Kenny Donahue wrote: Derek Martin wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:50:08PM -0500, Kenny Donahue wrote: Ok, let's backtrack a couple of steps... Can you mount the exported filesystems manually? Sorry. yes, this works. Which raises another point: do your mount points exist on your new m

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Kenny Donahue
Derek Martin wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:50:08PM -0500, Kenny Donahue wrote: Ok, let's backtrack a couple of steps... Can you mount the exported filesystems manually? Sorry. yes, this works. Which raises another point: do your mount points exist on your new machine? Autofs norm

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:50:08PM -0500, Kenny Donahue wrote: > >Ok, let's backtrack a couple of steps... > > > >Can you mount the exported filesystems manually? You didn't answer this question... It's important. If you can't mount the filesystem manually, you're never going to get autofs to do

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
> That seems really unlikely; autofs (automounter) and amd are two > different methods of accomplishing the same thing... It would be > strange to be using both at the same time. autofs is generally > considered to be the better of the two, so chances are that's what > you're using, not amd.

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Kenny Donahue
Michael ODonnell wrote: Try saying "ypcat auto.master" ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss auto_usr -bg -host-bg auto_home -bg auto_os -bg auto_web -bg Thanks,

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
To find out what's installed on a Debian box, I often define this function: function dlgrep() { # dpkg list grep COLUMNS=300 dpkg -l | tr -s '[:blank:]' ' ' | grep $* } ...which you could use thus: dlgrep -i autofs dlgrep -i amd If you have NIS installed you should

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
Try saying "ypcat auto.master" ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Kenny Donahue
Derek Martin wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:06:58PM -0500, Kenny Donahue wrote: If you're relying on files, you'll need to copy /etc/auto.* from a working machine. It's been a long while since I supported autofs and NIS, but I think that'll do it. That's what I did I even copied his /

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Kenny Donahue
Derek Martin wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:00:37PM -0500, Kenny Donahue wrote: I know diddly about network stuff so I'll do my best to answer. I'm using NIS, autofs and amd (I think). That seems really unlikely; autofs (automounter) and amd are two different methods of accomplishing the

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:06:58PM -0500, Kenny Donahue wrote: > >If you're relying on files, you'll need to copy /etc/auto.* from a > >working machine. It's been a long while since I supported autofs and > >NIS, but I think that'll do it. > > That's what I did I even copied his /etc/nsswitch.conf

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:00:37PM -0500, Kenny Donahue wrote: > I know diddly about network stuff so I'll do my best to answer. > I'm using NIS, autofs and amd (I think). That seems really unlikely; autofs (automounter) and amd are two different methods of accomplishing the same thing... It woul

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Kenny Donahue
Derek Martin wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:15:24PM -0500, Kenny Donahue wrote: Hi all, I just switched from RH 7.2 to the latest debian. Everything seems to be fine except that I can't seem to automount to the Solaris exported directories on our network. So you're probably using autofs

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Kenny Donahue
I know diddly about network stuff so I'll do my best to answer. I'm using NIS, autofs and amd (I think). automounting is configured to use files. Thanks, Kenny Michael ODonnell wrote: More info, please... For starters, which automounter thingy are you trying to use? The amd? autofs? How do you c

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:15:24PM -0500, Kenny Donahue wrote: > Hi all, > I just switched from RH 7.2 to the latest debian. > Everything seems to be fine except that I can't seem to > automount to the Solaris exported directories on our network. So you're probably using autofs and NIS, right? >

Re: automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
More info, please... For starters, which automounter thingy are you trying to use? The amd? autofs? How do you configure automounting in your environment? NIS? files? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gn

automount on debian help

2005-03-18 Thread Kenny Donahue
Hi all, I just switched from RH 7.2 to the latest debian. Everything seems to be fine except that I can't seem to automount to the Solaris exported directories on our network. Google searches have been useless. Tons of hits, zero content. I have access to a machine with working automount so if I ha