From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 22 8:27:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B214937B423 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:27:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id LAA18214; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:27:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:27:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen To: Stephen Hocking Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Converting Sun Automounter maps In-Reply-To: <200009221408.e8ME8wG06483@bloop.craftncomp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Stephen Hocking wrote: > I've stumbling into the wonderful world of auto-mounting, and trying to > convert some maps from a Sun box to the FreeBSD format. I have amd.conf set up > OK as per the man page, but keep on getting errors when changing into the > relevant directorys (like amd can't find an appropriate match). Has anyone > been down this path? Somewhat related to this... I've tried to get FreeBSD to behave with Sun automount home directories. When all the (Sun) home directories are on one system, I could get by by exporting the home directory on the Sun and automounting this as /home on the FreeBSD box. But we're now expanding so that home directories will exist on 2 different Sun boxen, and this will no longer work. I've resorted to disable automounting of users home directories on the Suns (where /home/ could be automounted to any Sun box/filesystem) and am now auotmounting /home/ instead. So home directories are /home/box1/user23 or /home/box2/user134. FreeBSD can now deal with this by automounting box1 and box2 under /home. amd-utils doesn't seem to support the autofs mapping needed to allow FreeBSD to exist in such an environment where each users home directory is automounted. I remember searching the newsgroups regarding this issue, and there did seem to be some initial support for autofs though. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message