Re: autofs not mounting from nis maps

[Chris Feist <cfeist@redhat.com>]

What version of autofs are you using on the Fedora clients?  rpm -q autofs

Also, what appears in /var/log/messages when the mounts fail?

Thanks,
Chris

David wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a NIS server that broadcasts an auto.XXX files as such:
> 
> [root@appel2 proc]# ypcat -k auto.master
> /home  auto.home
> /usr/local  auto.local
> /pub auto.pub
> 
> [root@appel2 proc]# ypcat -k auto.home | head -8
> magnusa  hirst:/homes/hirst/dsk1/&
> hattne   hirst:/homes/hirst/dsk2/&
> maria  hirst:/homes/hirst/dsk2/&
> diane  hirst:/homes/hirst/dsk2/&
> alina dqs1:/user13/&
> guestji hirst:/homes/hirst/dsk2/&
> hanna hirst:/homes/hirst/dsk2/&
> gunilla  bacon:/Users/&
> 
> ...
> 
> On the client side roughly half of the directories are actually mounted
> when I cd into them, the other half give:
> [root@appel2 proc]# cd /home/magnusa
> -bash: cd: /home/magnusa: No such file or directory
> 
> Without NIS everything works fine. However I have a few tens of
> workstations so it's quite tedious to update all machines with new files
> and restart autofs whenever something changes.
> 
> Am I doing something terribly wrong? Any other tips?
> 
> We are running debian on the servers and different Fedora's on the
> clients.
>