krempel@pacrat.npac.syr.edu (Henry B.J. Krempel) (12/03/88)
I have used automount quite a bit, and it works fine, except for some circumstances. I use it this way: automount -m /net -hosts /vol auto.vol (these are default names for examples in the manual, and on the 386i, I have to admit that I didn't understand automount fully until I looked at the 386i setup). The /net entry allows me to refer to disks on other systems: cd /net/rodan/u1/ puts me at rodan:/u1 the other entry comes from a yp map "auto.vol" which maps sofytware package names to their location on the net. /etc/auto.vol looks like this: maker: sparky:/usr/maker emacslib: pacrat:/usr/local/lib/emacs diamond: sparky:/usr/diamond Art: sparky:/usr/Art when /vol/Art is referred to, the appropriate file is automounted. NOTE: I have had a few problems: When you have something in your current working directory that is resident on a machine that is down, it may lock up that session. This happenned to me with a file in my home directory, suntools froze. So putting cute links like: ln -s /net/cmx/u1/g1/me cmx in your home directory is ill-advised. I would not use automount extensively on a machine that you were doing research demos on.