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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!newsfeeds.sol.net!worldnet.att.net!howland.erols.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!startide.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: need amd (automount) help (is there an amd FAQ???) Date: 27 Mar 1997 17:05:49 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 51 Message-ID: <5he9dd$hjh@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <7rd8slxyvp.fsf@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: startide.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37933 Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Tim Singletary (tsingle@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov) had the courage to say: : 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). Wow. Finally somebody has something nice to say about FreeBSD's NIS support. :) : 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? I've never really played with the Sun automounter (or any other vendor supplied automounter, actually). Typically I just install amd on all platforms; that way I can share the same config files on all of them. : 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??? All I can suggest is that you use a script of some kind to convert the Sun automounter config files into a syntax that amd understans and setting up a seperate group of amd.foo maps in parallel with the auto.foo maps. Even better would be to have a single config file and a script to generate either automounter format from that. This way, you can just update one file and regenerate the maps for both automounters in one step. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "Now, that's "Open" as used in the sentence "Open your wallet", right?" =============================================================================