Re: Ubuntu NFS automount problem

[Bill Shannon <bill.shannon@sun.com>]

Ian Kent wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 18:27 -0800, Bill Shannon wrote:
>> I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on my desktop at home.
>> I have an OpenSolaris 2008.11 server and a Solaris 10 server.
>> Both servers export NFS filesystems.
>>
>> On my Ubuntu desktop, the autmounter doesn't want to automount hierarchical
>> filesystems.  I first noticed this with /home, but /net doesn't work either.
>>
>> My OpenSolaris server is named "nissan".  My Solaris server is named "nissan2".
>>
>> # showmount -e nissan
>> Export list for nissan:
>> /backup                 (everyone)
>> /backup/download        (everyone)
>> /export/home/admin      (everyone)
>> /backup/pictures        (everyone)
>> /export/home/shannon    (everyone)
>> /export/home            (everyone)
>> /export/home/readerware (everyone)
>> /backup2                (everyone)
>> /export/home/opt        (everyone)
>> # showmount -e nissan2
>> Export list for nissan2:
>> /export/home (everyone)
>> /backup      (everyone)
>> /backup2     (everyone)
>> # cat /etc/auto.net
>> *	-rw,intr	&:/
> 
> How is do you expect this to work, explain?

The simple answer is - the same way it works on Solaris and Mac OS.

I should see the following directories:

/net/nissan/backup
/net/nissan/backup/download
/net/nissan/backup/pictures
/net/nissan/export
/net/nissan/export/home
/net/nissan/export/home/shannon

and so on.

After autofs mounts nissan:/backup on /net/nissan, it then
needs to mount nissan:/backup/download on /net/nissan/backup/download.

And in the case of nissan:/export, there's nothing to mount on
/net/nissan/export, so autofs needs to create a pseudo-directory
that contains an entry for "home".

Understand?