Re: Autofs question

[Eric Brown <edbmail@comcast.net>]

On Friday 01 April 2005 11:54 am, Rob Brenart (TT) wrote:
> I'm doing some autofs research for a server I have... so I'm running it
> on a backup server right now, and I have two questions for those who
> might know.
>
> 1) Currently I have a directory, with a handful of mounts under it at
> different levels... i.e.
>
> /mnt/share1
> /mnt/Chicago/share2
> /mnt/Chicago/share3
> /mnt/share4
>
> So, in my auto.master I put
> /mnt  /etc/auto.mnt --timeout=3600
>
> And then in my auto.mnt I put
> share1 blahblahblah
> share4 blahblahblah
>
> and that's good, but I don't seem to be able to put
> Chicago/share2 blahblahblah
> Chicago/share3 blahblahblah
>
> Is that just not something autofs supports? Do I need to make a new
> auto.X file for each directory which contains shares? This seems to be
> the case from the examples I can find, but I'm not finding a 100% clear
> answer in the docs, so I figured it's worth asking.
>
> 2) Is there any reason I want to avoid autofs on a server, I want to be
> sure I'm not walking into a hornet's nest and creating 2 dozen problems
> in order to fix the 1 I'm having.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob

Yes, don't use /mnt

share1 share2 etc will mount below /xxx/Chicago automaticly

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Eric Brown
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