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From: dem@filmpc.dolby.com (Douglas Mandell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Amd on NetBSD 1.0
Date: 08 Dec 1994 20:49:55 GMT
Organization: Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <DEM.94Dec8124957@filmpc.dolby.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: filmpc.dolby.com

Hello, all:
	Does anyone have any experience with the NetBSD automounter (amd)?
My NetBSD machine (Intel based) is on a network with a bunch of Suns running
NIS and Sun's automounter, and I'd like to have it use the same automounts
that the Suns use.  The manual page for amd is vary sparse, and NetBSD's amd
doesn't seem to work exactly the same as Sun's automount.  When I use the
auto.home map from NIS to automount home directories into a /home directory,
I get the following messages:

Dec  8 12:41:34 filmpc amd[1939]/info:  file server localhost type local starts up
Dec  8 12:41:34 filmpc amd[1940]/info:  defeating nfs window computation
Dec  8 12:41:34 filmpc amd[1939]/info:  auto.home mounted fstype toplvl on /homes

This looks OK, but what is "fstype toplvl"?

When I try to access the /home directory, however, I get:

ls /home/dem
Dec  8 12:41:43 filmpc amd[1939]/user:  key dem: No value component in "sprocket:/home1/dem"
Dec  8 12:41:43 filmpc amd[1939]/user:  No fs type specified (key = "dem", map = "auto.home")
ls: /homes/dem: No such file or directory

The map entry for dem (that's me) reads:

dem sprocket:/home1/dem

and this works fine for the Sun machines.

What gives?  Where can I go for more info?  The FAQs I have make no mention of amd
at all.

	Thanks in advance to all.