On 12/19/05, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, that's what I'm scratching my head about. > > So I guess you have something like > > /server_name /etc/auto.server_name > > But then what goes into /etc/auto.server_name? The how-tos I've found > seem to focus mostly on automounting floppies and CDs but aren't real > clear about how to do nfs mounts. > > What I'm doing now with my manual nfs mount is to export /public on > the server and mount it as /public on the client as well. I guess I'm > going to have to change this to use autofs.
Autofs must have a mount point for each automount. That's what /server_name is in auto.master. Inside your /etc/auto.server_name file you would have something like this: public -soft,intr server-name:/public This would then get mounted as /server_name/public on the client computer. However, all that said, I would STRONGLY recommend just using the default auto.net file. It does absolutely everything you need with the only setup being that you need to uncomment that line in auto.master and restart autofs. If you then want it to show up as /public in the client computer, you can make a symlink from /public to /net/server_name/public and everything will "just work"(tm). Cheers, Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
