help with NFS and automount

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1 total messages Started by Emi C. Shigeno Thu, 17 Jul 1997 00:00

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Author: Emi C. Shigeno
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 00:00

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I'm having trouble comprehending/setting up automount (IRIX 5.3), and was 
hoping y'all could help.

NFS manager (as y'all know) allows mounting a remote directory (eg. 
saturn:/usr/people/smith) in just about any local directory I choose (eg. 
/usr/people/smith/saturn).  Is it possible to do something similar using 
automount _without_ using NIS?  I've tried several configurations ... 
here's one example (if I remember correctly):

/etc/config/automount.options:
      -v -f /etc/auto.master

/etc/auto.master:
      #mount point      map name             map options
      /-                /etc/auto.direct     -intr, nosuid, nodev

/etc/auto.direct:
      #directory        options              location
      /usr/people/smith/saturn               saturn:/usr/people/smith

This only sort of works.  I think it mounts the remote directory under 
/tmp_mount(?)/saturn/user/people/smith, and then makes a link at 
/usr/people/smith/saturn -- kind of a pain if you "cd saturn" and then "cd 
.." thinking you're going back to your home directory.  I'd like to have 
multiple directories that can be automounted (in the directories of my 
choice) so I'd rather not be limited to one mount point -- or do I have no 
choice?

Along similar lines, is it possible to login to pluto (for example), and 
have a remote directory as my home (eg. saturn:/usr/people/smith) 
_without_ using NIS?  If so, how?

Thanks for the help in advance.

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