pdg@cs.uow.edu.au (Peter Gray) (12/10/90)
I am having trouble getting automount to work on a diskless machine using the builtin hosts map. Manual mounts and non-builtin maps work fine. Does anybody have automount working on a diskless machine with the builtin maps and did you have to do something special to get it to work? We are running NIS using netgroups to define export permissions on the servers. Any help appreciated. Peter Gray Internet: pdg@draci.cs.uow.EDU.AU Professional Officer UUCP: ...!munnari!draci.cs.uow.EDU.AU!pdg Dept of Computer Science MHSnet: pdg@draci.cs.uow.oz.au University of Wollongong Phone: +61 42 270770 N.S.W. 2500 Australia Fax : +61 42 297768
mike@cs.utexas.edu (Mike Ubell) (12/30/90)
In article <736@brchh104.bnr.ca> pdg@cs.uow.edu.au (Peter Gray) writes: >I am having trouble getting automount to work on a diskless machine using >the builtin hosts map. Manual mounts and non-builtin maps work fine. > >Does anybody have automount working on a diskless machine with the builtin >maps and did you have to do something special to get it to work? We are >running NIS using netgroups to define export permissions on the servers. Automount is a strange beast. The -hosts option works everywhere but in an indirect map that is an NIS file. That is you can have a local file with -hosts in it but not an NIS file. I was told by Sun Support that "its not supposed to work that way" If this is not your problem there is probably something else you are doing that is "not supposed to work that way". We have found that several "obvious" things just don't work the way they should.