lodin@plains.NoDak.edu (Steve Lodin) (10/15/90)
We are currently running a network with a bunch of Suns and a couple of HPs. We will be increasing the number HPs in the near future and are looking for ways to make life for the users easier. On the Suns we are currently using a package known as the "automounter". This package allows the operating system to nfs mount file systems on demand instead of the usual method of having the systems permanently mounted. We use this capability to allow a user to sign onto any machine and have his home directory and any needed applications available to him as needed. The paths to his files always appear the same no matter what machine he is on. By distributing the automount database through yellow pages we only have to enter the information for a user once and everything is transparent from then on. It was my understanding that Sun put the code for the automounter into the public domain. Does anyone have it running on HPs? (Tony B.? jem?) If so how well does it work? Are there other alternatives in use that we might use? Please post here or reply to: Steven W. Lodin Advanced Instrumentation Engineering Delco Electronics Corp. AT&T: (317) 451-8722 GM: 8-322-8722 Domain: lodin%koiasvr01.uucp@[iuvax.cs.indiana.edu or dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu] or lodin@plains.nodak.edu or swlodin@koess.gm.hac.com UUCP: [iuvax or pur-ee]!koiasvr01!lodin GM: LODIN, SW <KOESS::SWLODIN>
mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies) (10/16/90)
In article <6290@plains.NoDak.edu> lodin@plains.NoDak.edu (Steve Lodin) writes: >We are currently running a network with a bunch of Suns and a couple of >HPs. We will be increasing the number HPs in the near future and are >looking for ways to make life for the users easier. ... >It was my understanding that Sun put the code for the automounter into >the public domain. Does anyone have it running on HPs? (Tony B.? jem?) >If so how well does it work? Are there other alternatives in use that >we might use? I don't know whether sun have put automount into the PD but there is a free alternative --- "amd" written by Jan-Simon Pendry <jsp@doc.imperial.ac.uk>. This gives you all the capabilities of Sun's automounter and more. Additional mount types, talks to hesiod as well as YP, runs on lots of different systems. We run it here on our HP's (300's and 800's running HPUX and MORE/bsd) and our Suns. amd 5.2 is available for anon ftp from usc.edu in pub/amd/... This version was apparently included in the BSD 4.3-reno release. There is also a 5.3 version that is currently in alpha release. cheers mark
steved@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Steve Dempsey) (10/18/90)
> It was my understanding that Sun put the code for the automounter into > the public domain. Does anyone have it running on HPs? (Tony B.? jem?) > If so how well does it work? Are there other alternatives in use that > we might use? I don't know a thing about Sun's automounter, but there is a PD version called amd. It's available by anonymous ftp from usc.edu. We have it installed here on Ultrix, BSD, and HPUX systems. It's a bit of work to build the mount maps the first time but has been worth the effort. Steve Dempsey, Center for Computer Assisted Engineering Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 +1 303 491 0630 INET: steved@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu, dempsey@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu UUCP: boulder!ccncsu!longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu!steved, ...!ncar!handel!dempsey
lodin@plains.NoDak.edu (Joe Schmo) (10/18/90)
In article <10322@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> steved@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Steve Dempsey) writes: > >I don't know a thing about Sun's automounter, but there is a PD version >called amd. It's available by anonymous ftp from usc.edu. We have it >installed here on Ultrix, BSD, and HPUX systems. It's a bit of work >to build the mount maps the first time but has been worth the effort. > Thanks for the response guys. I will give amd a try. VHE is a long shot if amd fails. Steven W. Lodin Advanced Instrumentation Engineering Delco Electronics Corp AT&T: (317) 451-8722 GM: 8-322-8722 Domain: lodin%koiasvr01.uucp@[iuvax.cs.indiana.edu or dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu] or lodin@plains.nodak.edu or swlodin@koess.gm.hac.com UUCP: [iuvax or pur-ee]!koiasvr01!lodin GM: LODIN, SW <KOESS::SWLODIN>