auto.net

auto.net

[Myers, Parrish]

Hello,

I was wondering if I could get some help?  I am kinda new to the autofs
thing... I think this is a simple question: Is there a simple way to tell if
I have autofs4 built into my linux kernel?  And, if it isn't, does this
still affect the use of auto.net (which is a replacement for the '-host'
flag in the sgi verison)? I am having problems with getting auto.net to
work. Everything in the setup seems to say it sould work: it does everyting
but actually mound the directories.

Thank you.


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Parrish M. Myers 
Email: pmyers@sikorsky.com <mailto:pmyers@sikorsky.com>
Phone: (203) 386-3676

Re: auto.net

[Taylor, ForrestX]

Myers, Parrish wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if I could get some help?  I am kinda new to the autofs
> thing... I think this is a simple question: Is there a simple way to tell if
> I have autofs4 built into my linux kernel?  And, if it isn't, does this
> still affect the use of auto.net (which is a replacement for the '-host'
> flag in the sgi verison)? I am having problems with getting auto.net to
> work. Everything in the setup seems to say it sould work: it does everyting
> but actually mound the directories.


You must use autofs4 for auto.net to work.  Try `/sbin/lsmod | grep autofs`.

If you see autofs, then you are using the old autofs3 module.  Stop 
autofs and remove the module (/etc/init.d/autofs stop ; modprobe -r 
autofs).  Edit /etc/modules.conf and add this line:
alias autofs autofs4
Restart autofs and see if it works.

If you see autofs4, then you are using the autofs4 module, and something 
else is wrong.  Check /var/log/message on the client machine and the 
machine that you are trying to connect to.

If you don't see autofs, then you may have autofs built into the kernel. 
  You'll have to look at the kernel configuration to see whether or not 
you included it.

Forrest

Re: auto.net

[Ian Kent]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Myers, Parrish wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if I could get some help?  I am kinda new to the autofs
> thing... I think this is a simple question: Is there a simple way to tell if
> I have autofs4 built into my linux kernel?  And, if it isn't, does this
> still affect the use of auto.net (which is a replacement for the '-host'
> flag in the sgi verison)? I am having problems with getting auto.net to
> work. Everything in the setup seems to say it sould work: it does everyting
> but actually mound the directories.
>

There is a lot of usefull information in Forests' post but it's
possible that it's comiled in.

You are obviously using an autofs version 4, but which one.

I think that all the v4 daemons issue a message identifing the kernel
autofs version at startup.

For autofs            says version 3
    autofs4 standard  says version 4
    autofs4 updated   should say 4.04 (anything lower should be
                      updated).

Ian