autofs

autofs

[Luca Ferrari]

Hi,
I've got a linux debian 3 server which makes available homes to users thru NFS 
(and NIS). Users access their home by several clients, either Linux or 
Solaris 9. I'd like to know if these access can cause problems, so that I 
have to set-up different homes for each different client, or if they can 
cohesist without problems.

Sugestions?

Thanks,
Luca
-- 
Luca Ferrari,
fluca1978@virgilio.it

Autofs

[Dinesh Parmar]

Hello,

Problem: Not able to mount NIS maps from NIS server(Solaris) to Linux(Red Hat 
7.3)

My Network Schema 

NIS Server: SunOS 5.6 
NIS Client : Mix of Sunos & HPUX & Linux machine(Red Hat Linux 7.3). 

Problem: I am trying to mount NIS maps from NIS Server(auto_home & auto_xyz) 
mounted on Linux. I have configured Linux as NIS client and it is in working 
condition. 

Testing of NIS Client: ypcat passwd & ypcat hosts list all the Maps from the 
server. 

When i try to automount a directory from NIS server it works out fine. 

Linux machine autofs configuration 

more /etc/auto.master 

/usr/dinesh   file:/etc/auto.misc  --timeout=120 

more /etc/auto.misc 

linux    -ro,soft,intr    mother:/export/local/sun4u 

With this configuration i get the automount done for this partition.
But the requirement is to mount the maps so that any updates are done at one 
place only and not doing manually on all the linux machines

Among Solaris & HPUX client the maps are properly propogated from NIS master 
but on Linux it is not happening. 

I was wondering if you could provide some pointers to solve this problem. 

With Regards 

-Dinesh Parmar 

Re: Autofs

[raven]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Dinesh Parmar wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Problem: Not able to mount NIS maps from NIS server(Solaris) to Linux(Red Hat 
> 7.3)
> 
> My Network Schema 
> 
> NIS Server: SunOS 5.6 
> NIS Client : Mix of Sunos & HPUX & Linux machine(Red Hat Linux 7.3). 
> 
> Problem: I am trying to mount NIS maps from NIS Server(auto_home & auto_xyz) 
> mounted on Linux. I have configured Linux as NIS client and it is in working 
> condition. 
> 
> Testing of NIS Client: ypcat passwd & ypcat hosts list all the Maps from the 
> server. 

Can you do ypcat -k auto_home and ypcat -k auto_xyz?

> 
> When i try to automount a directory from NIS server it works out fine. 
> 
> Linux machine autofs configuration 
> 
> more /etc/auto.master 
> 
> /usr/dinesh   file:/etc/auto.misc  --timeout=120 
> 
> more /etc/auto.misc 
> 
> linux    -ro,soft,intr    mother:/export/local/sun4u 
> 
> With this configuration i get the automount done for this partition.
> But the requirement is to mount the maps so that any updates are done at one 
> place only and not doing manually on all the linux machines

So what have you used in your master map to attempt to mount from the NIS 
server?

What version of autofs?
What kernel version?

Ian

Re: Autofs

[Dinesh Parmar]

Here is the requested information

I am able to get maps using ypcat -k auto.home & ypcat auto.xyz but not by
auto_home & auto_xyz(gives error as server does not have these maps).

The kernel is Linux 2.4.18-3 version & autofs is 1.4.

The only thing which i tried was to specify the maps in auto.master,

more /etc/auto.master

home       auto.home    -nosuid,nodev
xyz        auto.xyz     -nosuid.nodev

Thanks
-dinesh



---------- Original Message -----------
From: raven@themaw.net
To: Dinesh Parmar <dinesh@ftghome.com>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org
Sent: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:44:20 +0800 (WST)
Subject: Re: [autofs] Autofs 

> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Dinesh Parmar wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Problem: Not able to mount NIS maps from NIS server(Solaris) to Linux(Red Hat 
> > 7.3)
> > 
> > My Network Schema 
> > 
> > NIS Server: SunOS 5.6 
> > NIS Client : Mix of Sunos & HPUX & Linux machine(Red Hat Linux 7.3). 
> > 
> > Problem: I am trying to mount NIS maps from NIS Server(auto_home & auto_xyz) 
> > mounted on Linux. I have configured Linux as NIS client and it is in working 
> > condition. 
> > 
> > Testing of NIS Client: ypcat passwd & ypcat hosts list all the Maps from the 
> > server.
> 
> Can you do ypcat -k auto_home and ypcat -k auto_xyz?
> 
> > 
> > When i try to automount a directory from NIS server it works out fine. 
> > 
> > Linux machine autofs configuration 
> > 
> > more /etc/auto.master 
> > 
> > /usr/dinesh   file:/etc/auto.misc  --timeout=120 
> > 
> > more /etc/auto.misc 
> > 
> > linux    -ro,soft,intr    mother:/export/local/sun4u 
> > 
> > With this configuration i get the automount done for this partition.
> > But the requirement is to mount the maps so that any updates are done at one 
> > place only and not doing manually on all the linux machines
> 
> So what have you used in your master map to attempt to mount from 
> the NIS server?
> 
> What version of autofs?
> What kernel version?
> 
> Ian
------- End of Original Message -------

Re: Autofs

[Ian Kent]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Dinesh Parmar wrote:

> Here is the requested information
> 
> I am able to get maps using ypcat -k auto.home & ypcat auto.xyz but not by
> auto_home & auto_xyz(gives error as server does not have these maps).
> 
> The kernel is Linux 2.4.18-3 version & autofs is 1.4.

You mean 4.1.0 yes.

> 
> The only thing which i tried was to specify the maps in auto.master,
> 
> more /etc/auto.master
> 
> home       auto.home    -nosuid,nodev
> xyz        auto.xyz     -nosuid.nodev

Where is the leading slash on these master map entries?

Ian