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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
Subject: Re: automount ....
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On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:52:51 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> 
> 
> .... I am interested in using automount (amd) as both client & server on 
> my newly minted FreeBSD 9.3 box. Actually, the server part already .... 
> just works, automagically, however I can't figure out anything about 
> client operations. The man page is dense & a quart low on examples .... 
> Anyone have any clues, maybe some simple config files ? TIA ....

I haven't been using amd automounts for a long time, but if I
remember correctly, there is no client-side configuration needed.
As soon as a resource is requested (via FTP, SFTP, NFS, CIFS, ...),
amd will make the resource available.


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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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