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From: tsingle@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov (Tim Singletary)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: need amd (automount) help (is there an amd FAQ???)
Date: 27 Mar 1997 08:12:10 -0500
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I'm trying to jam some FreeBSD 2.2 machines into a cluster of Sun
workstations.  Getting FreeBSD to use the NIS password file was easy
(all I did was set the domain and add a line of colons at the bottom
of the password file).

But I'm not satisfied with the way I've got amd set up.  We've got
some home directories on one disk and the rest on another (both disks
on the same Sun machine).  So far, I've only got amd to automount the
home directories from one disk; the only way I see to make amd
automount from both disks is to duplicate the data in the existing NIS
auto.home map.

Is there some way to make amd understand Sun's auto.home and
auto.direct?

The second problem is I'd like, in addition to automounting home
directories, to get the FreeBSD machines to use
`/net/machine/directory' style automounting.

Has anyone else used amd in a mixed environment?  Can anyone point me
in the right direction???

Thanks,

tim



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Tim Singletary, the Hammers Company, (301) 286-8606