Re: Woody & autofs - exactly
hi ya david ...
yes... "users" must know what they are doing ...
ls -la /autof/* should work too...but you do have ot wait
for timeouts if any of the automounted servers are down..
using symlinks to a user directory, ( preferable access mode) will work
too ...subject to nfs timeouts for any server that is offline...
c ya
alvin
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, David Berard wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Alvin Oga wrote:
> >
> > hi david
> >
> > your /etc/auto.master says to use /autofs as the mount point
> > ...
> > > /autofs /etc/auto.test
> >
> > your /etc/auto.test says that you will be autmounting
> > the remote filessytem crir-a136.univ-savoie.fr:/data
> > to your local file system at /autofs/data
> > ...
> > > data -rw,fstype=nfs crir-a136.univ-savoie.fr:/data
> >
> > doing an ls -la /autofs will show nothing... since nothing
> > is yet mounted....
> >
> > if you try to access something ( /autofs/data or autofs/* )
> > then the automounter will mount the remote fs to /autofs
>
> ls /autofs/data work for me, but /autofs/* not. This is the problem.
>
> > you do NOT get to manage anything in the /autofs directory...
>
> I understand this, but if I want users to travel in the file hierarchie
> under /autofs, without known the name of every mount point, I must create
> an another directory (e.g. /autofs_user ), made a symbolic link for every
> mount point (e.g. ln -s /autofs/data data), and tell to the users to use
> /autofs_user instead of /autofs, otherwise they must know that
> /autofs/data exist for seeing /autofs/data/ contents.
>
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