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I'm trying to find out if linux has automout capabilities.  I have been
able to find an old patch/hack for a BSD automountd, but since that goes
back to September of 1995, I am not sure I want to put that on  our
systems.

any suggestions?

-heather f.

AMD is a * old beast, but it's the only option for automounting on
Linux.  Here's a few tips to make it work:

*Make sure you're running 2.0+ kernel with libc 5.4.x

*Use the Debian distribution of AMD.  They have been patching a older
version of AMD, before some patches that really screwed it up.

*Start with file maps, then move up to NIS maps if you need to.  Caching
on NIS maps causes ls's in your automount directory to scramble the
names of all your files, even though cd's and the like still work.
Start it with the option -cache:=none.

You will get errors like: bad nfs_stat_to_errno: 116 when you do a ls in
the automount directory.  Ignore it.  I know it's annoying.
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Jay Painter

Hi,

I also have problems with the amd. Perhaps you can give me some hints.
The situation is as follows:
We have one server (Sparc Solaris) and some Sparc clients. They mount
many filesystems with automount from the server. Now I have set up a
linux box which I want to mount some of the filesystems, too
(home-dirs). The users homes are located on the server in 4 directories
/export/home0, /export/home1, /export/home2, /export/home3.
I want them to be mounted on my linux box under /athome/<user>.
As I understand it, AMD is not able to use NIS MAPS that are distributed
by the SUN-server, so want to use a local file map. I think, it is not
that difficult, but I have no experiences with automount/amd.

Thanks for any help.

Quote:> AMD is a * old beast, but it's the only option for automounting on
> Linux.  Here's a few tips to make it work:

> *Make sure you're running 2.0+ kernel with libc 5.4.x

> *Use the Debian distribution of AMD.  They have been patching a older
> version of AMD, before some patches that really screwed it up.

> *Start with file maps, then move up to NIS maps if you need to.  Caching
> on NIS maps causes ls's in your automount directory to scramble the
> names of all your files, even though cd's and the like still work.
> Start it with the option -cache:=none.

> You will get errors like: bad nfs_stat_to_errno: 116 when you do a ls in
> the automount directory.  Ignore it.  I know it's annoying.
> ------------
> Jay Painter

David Mansfield