hi ya david
for doing "nothing fancy/tricky" with automounters...
autofs is easier/simpler/faster than amd...
- you can either (should) explicitly list ip# ...
or you can use 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
for all 255 machines on that network
lets say you wanna share your home dir across multiple
machines so that no matter where you login, everything
always looks the same
#
# allow other folks to see your /home directories
# on your home server
#
home# vi /etc/exports
/home 192.168.1.1(rw)
- restart nfs-server
#
# allow other folks to see your mail directories
# on your mail server
#
mail# vi /etc/exports
/var/spool/mail 192.168.1.1(rw,no_root_squash)
- restart nfs-server
------------------
#
# make sure you dont have any firewalls and hosts.allow/deny issues
#
all_clients# mkdir /mnt/test
all_clients# mount home:/home /mnt/test
all_clients# (if it worked) ; umount /mnt/test
all_clients# mount mail:/var/spool/mail /mnt/test
all_clients# (if it worked) ; umount /mnt/test
-------------------
#
# now let it automount anytime you want those remote resources
#
all_clients# vi /etc/auto.master
/.autofs /etc/auto.home --timeout=60
all_clients# vi /etc/auto.home
home -fstype=nfs,soft,intr home:/home
mail -fstype=nfs,soft,intr mail:/var/spool/mail
all_clients# mv /home /home.local
all_clients# ln -s /.autofs/home /
all_clients# mv /var/spool/mail /var/spool/mail.local
all_clients# ln -s /.autofs/mail /var/spool/mail.local
restart autofs and you're all set...
- fix your passwds by copying /etc/{passwd,shadow}
- or play with NIS+ when you have more time
c ya
alvin
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, David Wright wrote:
> I am using the amd automounter, or at least trying to, but I'm having a
> very hard time. I'm not trying to do anyting tricky.
>
> In the end, I essentailly just want to reproduce the following line from
> /etc/fstab:
> files.example.com:/home /home nfs ...
> master.example.com:/usr /usr nfs ...
> as an automount system. The main reason for wanting to use amd is failover.
>
> I don't want amd to need to know the subdirectories of /home; I just
> want it to mount /home whenever /home/* is accessed. How can I make it
> do this?
>
> Does anyone have amd working for them?
>
>
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