On 12/19/05, Tanner Lovelace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/19/05, Tanner Lovelace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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). > > Looking further into this, it also appears that you can place the options > first and this default them for all mounts. For example: > > -fstype=nfs,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid,nonstrict,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,async > /public server_name:/public > /othershare server_name:/othershare > > This is the format that the auto.net automatically creates at mount time > for each host you wish to mount.
Okay so I figured that out. As you said I just uncommented the line /net /auto.net in /etc/auto.master and then something like ls /net/frodo mounted all the exports on frodo to corresponding mountpoints in /net/frodo So, I guess my next question is with this setup, how do I umount them, or at least make sure that they are flushed if I shutdown or reboot, or is this somehow done automagically? -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ -- 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/
